Fiber to the Home

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.

Complete FTTH solution consists of:

• active network equipment at the central location; 
• passive equipment (cables) between the central location and homes; 
• active network equipment in homes; 

The three main reasons why we strive in it to develop FTTH P2P network architecture are:

• it based on the P2P software solutions - it is the network of the future and provides maximum flexibility; 
• it supports optimally the Ethernet / IP technology; 
• it is the most efficient and enables a maximum speed for each end-user. 

Sketch of FTTH P2P network architecture: