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FTTH

Meaning in networking & telecommunications, with examples

abbreviationCommon term

In networking & telecommunications, FTTH means: Short for fibre to the home: a broadband setup in which optical fibre runs all the way to the customer's home, instead of ending at a street cabinet and continuing over copper.

In Turkish: eve kadar fiber, FTTH

How it is used

Spelled out letter by letter. Operators roll out, deploy and sell FTTH. Related terms are FTTB (fibre to the building) and FTTC (fibre to the cabinet), where the last part is still copper; the whole group is often written FTTx.

Example sentences

  1. With FTTH, every flat in the new building can get gigabit speeds.

  2. This street only has FTTC, so speeds drop the further you are from the cabinet; FTTH is planned for next year.

Common collocations

  • FTTH rollout
  • FTTH network
  • FTTH subscribers
  • FTTx
  • fibre optic cableA cable that carries data as pulses of light through very thin strands of glass, allowing much higher speeds and much longer distances than copper.
  • broadbandHigh-speed internet access that is always on, delivered over fibre, cable, DSL, mobile or satellite networks, as opposed to old dial-up connections.
  • last mileThe final part of a telecom network that connects the operator's local exchange or street cabinet to the customer's building; it is often the slowest and most expensive part to build.
  • spliceTo join two optical fibres end to end so that light passes from one to the other with as little loss as possible, usually by melting them together with a fusion splicer.

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