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.