FTTH – Fiber-to-the-Home

Offering new, advanced, bandwidth-hungry applications to distinguish themselves from competitors with their advanced services and higher bandwidth performance is the goal of every service and network provider.

The FTTH solution based on Iskratel’s SI3000 Lumia offers practically unlimited access bandwidth and represents the most evolved access networks, giving the service provider a future-proof network to make possible all current and future services with a high quality of user experience.

Iskratel’s FTTH solution is composed of Iskratel products for both the Central Office and the CPE parts of the solution.

The point-to-point Ethernet Fiber Access infrastructure turns out to be a very simple, secure, upgradable and long-term future-proof investment.

Advantages of PTP Ethernet solutions:

• Symmetrical transmission rates
• Unshared, dedicated bandwidth
• Security on the lowest possible layer (physical separation)
• Ethernet is the most widely deployed and standardized technology. Interpretability with other vendor equipment on an Ethernet level is subject to standards
• Effective use of customer ports; since each customer is individually connected, all fiber ports are used. The CO side is easily expanded by adding a fiber blade or an additional fiber subrack

Additional advantages of the FTTH solution:

• Wire speed performance on CO and CPE
• Service-provider functionality of CO and CPE equipment with built-in support for triple-play services
  • multicast awareness (L2 multicasting mechanism implemented on Fiber blade & CPE)
  • QoS assurance based on CoS, DiffServ and RSVP mechanisms (interoperable with aggregation & core network)
  • Basic or enhanced (TR69) management of CPE
  • Mass, end-to-end configuration, provisioning and monitoring, integration with OSS/BSS
• Customized solution for high-end fiber access – FTTH shelves, fiber guiding
• Customer-shaped solutions
• Same feature set as on DSL access
• Combination with other access solutions like ADSL2+, VDSL2,  WiMAX  on the same SI3000 MSAN platform

Utilizing optical fibers in an access network gives us future-proof networks that enable all current and future services. Optical fibers are the final stage of evolution in information networks and will become the dominant medium in core and access networks.
Dedicated optical fiber connecting every individual user to a CO location so that each user can be long-term provided with an “unlimited” dedicated transmission rate.

The topology of the solution is technologically neutral, which allows the use of standardized CO and CPE equipment. E-P2P ensures practically unlimited speed per subscriber with 1Gbps speeds available today and the possibility of multiple 10Gbps throughput in the forthcoming decades. Therefore, P2P can be regarded as the only truly future-proof access solution and also the eventual choice even for early PON adopters.
Iskratel’s FTTH solution is designed in a manner to suit both business and residential users.
Residential users are connected with the premium-class access that delivers the full triple-play services of voice, video and data today as well as the simple introduction of future solutions.

Connecting business customers with fiber is the first step operators are making. Fiber connections provide higher quality and higher reliability for existing services, and access to new services, which in the long term ensures user satisfaction. Today's FTTH solutions are the ultimate and the most common solutions for business users.

Iskratel's FTTHP2P (PTP)  solution is the right choice for all operators who are aware of the fact that only services and applications provide long-term success and profitable operation, which has lately been confirmed by the announcements that large players are increasing their investments in such networks.