FTTH Network

FTTH stands for Fiber To The Home, is a transmission method for fiber optic communication, which is currently the best mode for full service, high bandwidth fiber optic access requirements. 

In FTTH network,  an optical network unit (ONU) is installed at a residential or corporate user, it is the closest to the user in the optical access series except for FTTD (fiber to the desktop).

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ODN network (optical distribution network) of Fiber to the home (FTTH) is divided into trunk cable subsystem, distribution cable subsystem and drop cable terminal subsystem. Yingda can provide corresponding optical fiber products suitable for each subsystem.

Fiber Optic Products for Trunk Cable Subsystem

This refers to the cable distribution system from the central office optical distribution rack ODF of OLT to the user cross cabinet. In the fiber distribution equipment at both ends, the optical cables are terminated by hot-melt and jumpered with fiber optic pigtails.

Fiber Optic Products for Distribution Cable Subsystem

This refers to the optical fiber cable from the cross cabinet to the “optical fiber integrated distribution box” in the user’s building. This is an optical distribution panel where the input cable and the output cable are directly connected “back to back”. Usually, the optical fiber splitter is installed inside.

Best Quality Optical Splitter for FTTH network

An optical splitter is a “fiber multiplexing device” that “multiplexes” the channels of a simplex or duplex cable into multiple channels. The common splitting ratios are 1:8, 1:16, 1:32, and 1:64. In the EPON mode FTTH system, since the transmission rate is 1.2Gb/s, in order to ensure that the user bandwidth reaches more than 30Mb/s, the most commonly used splitting ratio is 1:32.

According to the location of placement, fiber optic splitter can be packed in 4 types: steel tube fiber splitter, ABS fiber splitter module, LGX box splitter, and rack mounted splitter. China uses more ABS module splitter and LGX splitter, while overseas use more steel tube splitters, followed by passive spiltter module and LGX splitter cassette. Most of the models of input and output pigtails of the plc splitter are with SC connectors, while Middle East prefers LC connetors with smaller head and 2 cores input pigtails (2XN series).

Besides above fiber optic equipment, fiber to the home network will use fast connector, fusion splice on connector, drop cable, fiber adapters as well. Contact us for best offer.

FTTH Network Main Business

FTTH is a comprehensive access solution for all businesses. Although the main driving force of FTTH is future broadband video services, FTTH must be able to support various existing narrowband and broadband services, as well as potential new services that may arise in the future. The FTTH system must be able to provide comprehensive access, allowing users to enjoy multiple services simultaneously at the same time.

The main businesses that FTTH should support include:

  • Video: HDTV, compressed using MPEG-2 standard, with original image pixels ranging from 1080 x 1920 to 4320 x 7680, and multi-channel high fidelity sound using Dolby Digital 5.1 channel decoder system; Standard DTV, using MPEG-2 standard compression, the pixel size of the original image is around 640 × 720, for normal mono or stereo; Various still image services and low resolution monitoring image services using MPEG-1, MPEG-4, and other compression technologies.
  • Data: Data services with various code rates, ranging from a few Kbps to tens of megabytes.
  • Voice: including traditional POTS telephone and digital telephone services, multiple high fidelity voices.  
  • Multimedia: a variety of mixed data, voice, and image services of different qualities.

FTTH Network Advantages

The main advantages of FTTH are as follows:

  1. ‌High bandwidth‌: FTTH provides extremely high bandwidth, which can support high-speed Internet access, suitable for applications such as large data transmission and high-definition video streaming, and the long distance is just in line with the large-scale application mode of operators‌.
  2. ‌Transparency‌: FTTH network has a high degree of transparency in data format, rate, wavelength and protocol, and can adapt to various communication needs‌.
  3. Environmental adaptability‌: FTTH relaxes the requirements for environmental conditions and power supply, making installation and maintenance easier‌.
  4. ‌Passive network‌: FTTH is a passive network, which can basically be passive from the central office to the user, reducing signal attenuation and interference‌.
  5. Flexible protocol support‌: Due to its broadband characteristics, the protocols supported by FTTH are very flexible and can adapt to various communication needs‌.
  6. Technology maturity‌: With the development of technology, the relevant technologies of FTTH have been relatively complete, including point-to-point, 1.25G and FTTH methods have developed relatively complete functions‌.
ftth network advantages

In the optical access family, there are also FTTB (Fiber To The Building), FTTC (Fiber To The Curb), FTTSA (Fiber To The Service Area), FTTA (Fiber To The Antenna) (base station), FTTP (Fiber To The Premises), FTTD (Fiber To The Desktop), and so on.

‌Comparison between FTTH and other fiber access methods as below:

  • FTTB (Fiber to the Building)‌: Fiber is connected to the building, and users are connected to the building through other media (such as Ethernet). The cost is lower and the bandwidth is lower than FTTH‌.
  • ‌ FTTC (Fiber to the Curb)‌: Fiber is connected to the roadside node, and the rest uses copper cable, which is suitable for suburban or dispersed users‌.
  • ‌ FTTN (Fiber to the Node)‌: Fiber is connected to long-distance nodes, with a large coverage area, low bandwidth and the lowest cost‌.
  • FTTA (fiber to the antenna): FTTA technology enables innovative, flexible and future-proof network installation methods
  • FTTR(fiber to the room):FTTR is to extend optical fiber from the communication base station to every corner of the home, thereby providing home users with extremely high-speed Internet access services.

FTTH Network FAQ

FTTH means Fiber to the Home, a type of fiber access application in which ONU is installed at home users or business locations.

FTTP means fiber to the premises, it is a broadband access method that directly introduces fiber into the user's home or commercial building to provide high-speed internet access services.

FTTH refers to the direct connection of optical fiber to the terminal equipment inside the user's home, such as an optical modem, without copper cables. FTTP is the extension of optical fiber to the user's home or premises, and the end can choose optical fiber or copper cable access.

FTTH need fiber optic cable, fiber patch cord, fiber pigtails or other optical devices to build network.

Currently, PON is the main access method for FTTH, but PON uses the same router/switch port and the same optical fiber between the router/switch and the passive splitter to serve multiple users, allowing them to share the wavelength capacity. , and does not require a dedicated router like AON.

In China, we will use a router and a modem for fiber access to the home.

After bring the fiber to the home (ftth), you can choose to use a network cable (cat 5e or cat6 patch cord) or wifi to access the network. There is no conflict between the two.

Please make sure your router is 100M or 1000M firstly, if now the fiber built in your home is 1000e, while your router is only 100M max., which will limited the internet max. 100M, suggest you to use a 1000M router for better surfing experience.

only bring pre-terminated drop cable, and plug the connector into the SC port of the router, then it can be ok. If you don’t have that, you can use a pigtail to fusion splice on the drop cable then it will be ok.

FTTH mainly use fiber pigtails, drop cable, splitter, fast connector, fiber termination box, fiber splitter box.

Yes, there is optical network unit with wifi5 or wifi6, request for quote?

FTTH is a comprehensive broadband internet access solution for all services, which allows users to conduct multiple services at the same time. The main services supported by FTTH include video, data, broadcasting and multimedia.

At present, GPON and EPON are the main technologies of PON. GPON has stronger ability to support multiple services and better transmission efficiency. However, new 10G XG-PON and XGS-PON solutions will been widely used too.

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