FTTH (fiber to the home), there are not many people talking about it now, and it is rarely reported in the media.
Not because there is no value, FTTH has brought hundreds of millions of families into the digital society; Not because it is not done well, but because it is done too well.
After FTTH, FTTR (fiber to the room) began to enter the field of vision. FTTR has become the preferred solution for high-quality experience home networking, and truly realizes the whole house optical fiber. It can provide Gigabit access experience for every room and corner through broadband and Wi Fi 6.
The value of FTTH has been fully reflected. In particular, COVID-19, which broke out last year, had led to serious physical isolation. High quality home broadband network had become an important helper for people's work, life and entertainment. For example, students could't go to school to study. Through FTTH, they could take online courses with high quality to ensure the progress of learning.
So is FTTR necessary?
Indeed, FTTH is basically enough for the family to play tiktok and catch up with the Internet. However, in the future, there will be more scenes and richer applications for home use, such as teleconference, online classes, 4K / 8K ultra-high definition video, VR / AR games, etc., which require a higher network experience, and the tolerance for common problems such as network jam, frame drop, audio-visual asynchrony will be lower and lower.
As we know, ADSL is basically enough in 2010. As an extension of FTTH within the family, FTTR will further improve the Gigabit fiber broadband infrastructure and create a new industrial space of more than trillion. To provide Gigabit access experience in every room and corner, network cable quality has become the bottleneck of Gigabit in the whole house. FTTR replaces the network cable with optical fiber, so that the optical fiber can go from "home" to "room", and solve the bottleneck of home network wiring in one step.
It has many advantages:
optical fiber is recognized as the fastest signal transmission medium, and there is no need to upgrade after deployment; The optical fiber products are mature and cheap, which can save the deployment cost; Long service life of optical fiber; Transparent optical fiber can be used, which will not damage home decoration and beauty, etc.
The next decade of FTTR is worth looking forward to.
Post time: Sep-16-2021