FTTH Council proposes plan to stimulate network expansion

Looking at the FTTH Council's plan
According to Lightwave, the FTTH Council's proposal is dubbed Gigabit Communities Race to the Top, a direct and purposeful reference to the Obama Administration's Race to the Top education initiative. In matching the president's broad strategic aims, the FTTH Council hopes to use grants and strategic funding to fuel FTTH deployment. As a result, the council is encouraging the FCC to give out matching grants of approximately $10 million to FTTH projects in Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets over the course of the next five years. The goal would be to support as many as 15 new projects in that time.

Developing effective FTTH plans
Fiscal strategies are not the only key component to fueling FTTH deployment. It is also important that telecoms and other network developers formulate methods for efficient network deployment and configuration. Fiber to Ethernet media converters play a vital role in this process by solving compatibility problems in the network. FTTH is extremely effective from a telecom perspective, but fiber is rarely used within homes. As a result, telecoms are responsible to alter the optical signal to make it interoperable with Ethernet systems in homes, making media conversion tools vital to FTTH success.

Perle has an extensive range of Managed and Unmanaged Fiber Media Converters to extended copper-based Ethernet equipment over a fiber optic link, multimode to multimode and multimode to single mode fiber up to 160km.