Fiber-to-the-Home Internet, TV, Phone in One Box

Brian Stretch writes "This looks like a really neat toy. Internet (PPPoE), CATV, DBS, telephone over one fiber optic cable to the converter box that breaks it down into 10BaseT Ethernet, coax, coax, and three POTS lines. I'd prefer more Internet bandwidth, and DBS and HDTV (from over-the-air broadcast) instead of DBS and CATV... but hey, these things could whack both Ameritech and Comcast in one shot. Is anyone familiar with these or any competing devices?"

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FTTH, Sweden

[tomas.bjornerback]

http://www.acc.umu.se/~tfytbk/mattgrand has a description of our real 100 Mbps Internet connected network (access also at 100 Mbps!)...

You can get 100Mbps, now!

[hokanomono]

In parts of Japan appearently you can already get a 100Mbit connection through fibre cables to your house. (Those who cannot read japanese, see the image . Not informative, but you can imagine your house in place and have nice dreams.) The price: JPY6000/month. (about EUR 52, resp. USD 45)

I was wondering for some time if it was just a joke. Well, afaik fibre cables are about the same price as CAT5 cables. One big advantage is that a full duplex fibre segment over a really big distance seems to be less a problem. (A switch every 45km sounds easy)

Too sad that i live in a country that is currently struggling to have ADSL for a fair price.

Its TRUE, You can get this cheap in Japan NOW

[Alex2000]

In the MID 90's the Japanese gov started the Fiber to the home (FTTH) with the goal of having 10 million homes equipped with fiber by 2005.

What does that mean?
Well if you live in a major city, you can sign up for B Flet, NTT's fiber service.

If you can read Japanese, check out NTT east's site at:

http://www.ntt-east.co.jp/flets/index_f.html

OR the NTT west site at:

http://www.ntt-west.co.jp/ipnet/ip/bflets/

On the west site, you can clearly see what is offered, with 100 Mbps big and bold! Of course, while this is the advertised speed, the actual performance is going to be between 20 and 50 Mbps.

They have 3 plans:

Business plan: 100Mbps for 40,000 yen ($300) a month

Basic plan: 100Mbps for 9,000 yen ($69) a month

Family plan: 10Mbps for 5,000 yen ($38) a month.

While the price is good, the installation and hardware costs are high. It costs 29,000 yen to hook up the basic plan ($223).

I'm living in the boonies of Nagoya now, but I look forward to moving closer to Nagoya to take advantage of this!

Alex

Re:Fiber to the home is unrealistic

[RadioTV]

TV is 6 MHz for analog SD (standard definition), 270Mb/s for SDI (4:3 digital uncompressed), 1.5 Gb/s for HD-SDI (16:9 HD digital uncompressed), 19.39 Mb/s ATSC stream (MPEG2 transport stream with a single HD or up to 4 SD program streams). A phone is 64 Kb/s (one ISDN-BRI).

FTTH: Got it and LOVE it.

[NuttyBee]

Here in lovely Sacramento, we have one thing I've never seen anywhere else.. A choice.

1. AT&T offers cable modems
2. Pac Bell offers phone/DSL
3. A new company called WinFirst (now in Ch. 11, but still operating) offers FTTH.

Heres what I get for about $130/mo.

1 - Phone line with 100 minutes LD, voice mail, caller ID, etc, etc, etc.

2 - All the basic local & Cable TV + 26 HBO/Cinemax.

3 - 10 Mbps symmetrical Internet access. And if only I could find a server that could keep up! I'm limited to 30 GB per month, but you can buy more. But 30 GB goes pretty far.

4. All delivered on fiber by a company who answers the phone. The cable system is crystal clear. Has VOD services.. It's quite cool.