Fiber-to-the-home networks are designed to deliver broadband services to end-users over fiber. The network consists of a passive fiber infrastructure and active equipment to enable distribution of the communication services. The figure below shows how the service providers and users are connected through the FttH network. The active network can be divided in a user part (customer premises equipment, CPE) and a central office (CO) part. The CPE terminates the network at the user, providing a conversion of the communication signals to services that the user can access. The CO functions as a transport network to connect the users to service providers.

OPTISIS FttH network is based on "Point-to-Point” (PtP), where every user is connected to the assigned interface on the central switch. This is important because of three reasons:

• "Point-to-Point" networks are future proof. In a PtP network each user is connected by a dedicated fiber to the CO, offering ultimate flexibility. Users can be upgraded and connected individually; the network is highly scalable and matches with future traffic patterns which are based on peer-to-peer communications.
   
• Ethernet/IP is quickly becoming the default standard for interactive services; even the optical transport networks move from circuit switched networks into the Ethernet. A FttH network should not only be compatible with Ethernet, it should be Ethernet.
   
• PtP offers the most cost efficient solution. Based on low-cost transceiver technology, a PtP network provides more bandwidth to the user than shared medium networks while the actual costs are the lowest.

Our PtP FttH solution is designed with products by the Dutch company GENEXIS that offers a low-cost and tested FttH solution and ensures a complete triple-play solution based on optical connections.

Here are some of the main advantages:

• The largest bandwidth per user
   
• The lowest costs of operations and maintenance
   
• Network tools that support network operations and automatic service management
   
• Open network based on open standards