to those who are still not familiar with ftth

1. Fibre to The Home (FTTH) technology is the solution that will support growing demand for higher bandwidth applications leading to the eventual Digital Home experience. FTTH uses fibre optic cables and associated optical electronics to deliver multiple advanced broadband services. It allows extremely rapid transmission of voluminous data to both homes and offices enabling service providers to provide IP-based services, such as IPTV and High Speed Broadband (HSBB).

2. FTTH‘s immense capacity allows for the easy deployment of triple-play application services (voice, video and data). With such high-powered capability, users will discover the ease of use with having IPTV content, Video-on-Demand entertainment, gaming, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services and data applications delivered, all via the convenience of a single fibre-enabled broadband connection.

3. Among benefits of this future-proof FTTH technology to the end users is its bandwidth capacity, reliability, security and scalability delivered over a single fibre optic cable to all Internet Protocol (IP) based services simultaneously.

4. FTTH delivers high-speed broadband access service from 10Mbps up to maximum speed of 100Mbps to the home.
(source: somewhere on internet)

A bit on technical:
FTTH is a last mile technology that uses either EPON technology or Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology. EPON has a downstream rate and upstream rate of up to 1.25Gbps while GPON technology delivers a downstream of 2.488Gbps and optional upstream rate of 155Mbps, 622Mbps, 1.44Gbps and 2.488Gbps.

FTTH requires a platform infrastructure comprising of an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) for deployment at the exchange or Central Office (CO) and an Optical Network Unit (ONU) for deployment at the customer premise. FTTH represents a high-speed connectivity alternative to traditional copper wires. The GEPON technology is specifically cost-effective as it uses passive optical elements at customer’s premise as an alternative to conventional access equipment, reducing points of failure while simplifying the network architecture.