Television disrupted: the transition from network to networked TV
by Shelly Palmer · 14 Apr 2006 · 406pp · 88,820 words
are constantly working to upgrade and improve their systems. There are also several types of fiber optic connections available: Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) or Fiber to the Home (FTTH) which are actually necessary for telephone companies (telcos) entering the IPTV business. And finally, there are industrial classes of service known as OC-carriers (Optical
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to cable. Firstly, they have to build the network. Telco executives estimate they can pass about 3 million homes per year. They won’t bring fiber-to-the-home to every household in America, but to reach 60 million households (a good competitive number), we’re still talking about 20 years. Homes passed has
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that interval, and then divides this count by the length of the time interval. Measured in Hertz (Hz). One Hertz is one cycle per second. FTTH Fiber to the Home — Fiber optic service to a node located inside an individual home. FTTP Fiber to the Pillow — Fiber optic service to a node located inside an
The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We’ve Sold to Machines
by William Davidow and Michael Malone · 18 Feb 2020 · 304pp · 80,143 words
the ASCE represent only a fraction of what has to be done to create a robust twenty-first-century infrastructure. Providing 100 million households with FTTH (fiber to the home) would require an investment of between a quarter and a half-trillion dollars—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.45 Massive investments
Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
by Ben Tarnoff · 13 Jun 2022 · 234pp · 67,589 words
offer internet service as well. The speeds were fast because fiber already ran all the way to people’s homes—an architecture known, unsurprisingly, as “fiber to the home.” Rather than limping along a creaky telephone line or a coaxial cable across the “last mile” between Chattanoogans and their ISP, data could travel at
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” do things that private ISPs can’t. First, they can supply better service at lower cost. A group of Harvard researchers found that “community-owned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in the United States generally charge less for entry-level broadband service” than private providers. This is because, unlike their corporate counterparts, they don
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for Local Self- Reliance found that rural North Dakotans are not only more likely to have access to fiber to the home than urban North Dakotans, but also, remarkably, they are more likely to have access to fiber to the home than urban Americans in general. The backstory began in the 1990s, when a coalition of North Dakota
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is actually the cheapest kind of network to operate: a 2020 study by the Fiber Broadband Association found that the annual operating expenses of an FTTH network were about half those of a cable internet network on a per-home basis. The public sector could cover these expenses through its support
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bubble, 72, 76–79, 80, 83, 90, 93, 94, 98, 102, 106, 109, 123, 124 and email, xiv, 12, 15–16, 79–80, 159 and fiber to the home (FTTH) networks, 39, 40, 41, 51 and founding of startups, 76, 119–20, 123–24 and infrastructure, xiii, xiv, 7, 15, 17, 24, 27, 28, 30
Smart Grid Standards
by Takuro Sato · 17 Nov 2015
“FTT”s (e.g., FTTP (Fiber-to-the-Premises), FTTC (Fiber-to-the-Curb), FTTD (Fiber-to-the-Desk)) the most widely known term is Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and Fiber-to-the-Building (FTTB). FTTx architecture can be realized by various ways of distribution of the optical fiber links at the end points
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Standardization (CENELEC), 8 European Committee for Standardization (CEN), 8 European Installation Bus (EIB), 235 EV-DO, 288 Fast DR, 184 Feeder Terminal Unit (FTU), 126 Fiber-to-the-home FTTH, 266 Framework Programme (FP), 159 Index Fuel cell, 56, 59, 60 Function set, 215 G3-PLC, 251, 262 G4V, 179 Gasification, 68 Generic Object Oriented
Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things
by Alasdair Gilchrist · 27 Jun 2016
-performance transport mechanism today and it is becoming popular for short and medium pointto-point links as well as for long distance core rings. • FTTX—Fiber to the home/curb/street are all variants of a service provider’s fixed-line WAN portfolio for bringing high performance applications, such as IPTV and triple play
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
by Anthony M. Townsend · 29 Sep 2013 · 464pp · 127,283 words
, last modified December 29th, 2011, http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/dec/29/economic-outlook-brightens. 9Fiber-to-the-Home Council of North America, “Municipal Fiber to the Home Deployments: Next Generation Broadband as a Municipal Utility,” October 2009, http://www.baller.com/pdfs/MuniFiberNetsOct09.pdf. 10Claudia Sarrocco and Dimitri Ypsilanti, “Convergence and Next
Talk Is Cheap: Switching to Internet Telephones
by James E. Gaskin · 15 Mar 2005 · 731pp · 134,263 words
their customers, so that's why they're heavily regulated. If they want to get out of their regulated business, they can build out the fiber to the home networks they promised, because those are nonregulated businesses for them." Every step of the way, incumbent phone companies fought Internet Telephony proponents rather than innovating
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their customers, so that's why they're heavily regulated. If they want to get out of their regulated business, they can build out the fiber to the home networks they promised, because those are nonregulated businesses for them." Every step of the way, incumbent phone companies fought Internet Telephony proponents rather than innovating
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by Yochai Benkler · 14 May 2006 · 678pp · 216,204 words
attractive locale for businesses. Most of the efforts have indeed been phrased in these instrumental terms. The initial drive has been the creation of municipal fiber-to-the-home networks. The town of Bristol, Virginia, is an example. It has a population of slightly more than seventeen thousand. Median household income is 68 percent
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statistics made it an unattractive locus for early broadband rollout by incumbent providers. However, in 2003, Bristol residents had one of the most advanced residential fiber-to-the-home networks in the country, available for less than forty dollars a month. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the city had broadband penetration rivaling many of the top U
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words
year, Google announced it would build trial ultra-high-speed broadband networks in a small number of locations across the United States. The project promised fiber-to-the-home Internet speeds of 1 gigabit per second, more than one hundred times faster than what most Americans have today. At this speed, a high-definition
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent
by Douglas Coupland · 29 Sep 2014 · 124pp · 36,360 words
Division and the Wireline Networks Product Division in Alcatel-Lucent following the merger of Alcatel and Lucent in December 2006, with responsibility for xDSL and FTTH, IPTV, Home Networking and IMS. The two of us quickly fall into a discussion about modern communications. Weldon points out that, in 1995, “Nobody in