Qwest announced its first FTTH deployment at a new home development at RidgeGate, south of Denver, Colorado. The company said it has decided to deploy FTTH in certain new developments where green field conditions exist. RidgeGate residents will receive high-speed Internet access, TV, local, long-distance and wireless on one monthly bill from Qwest. http://www.qwest.com
Qwest Installs its First FTTH
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about FTTH. Here is what it replaced:
ADSL / ADSL2+ served from 1999. What ultimately replaced it?
ADSL / ADSL2+ split the copper-loop spectrum into hundreds of DMT subcarriers, assigning most bandwidth downstream; reach and rate fell off sharply with loop length. Its job passed to FTTH — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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