Who need competition? FTTH Council pushing for all-fiber future

"It is clear that fiber technology is superior, that consumer demand is increasing rapidly for higher-performance networks, and, as a result, wireline providers of all types are by necessity deploying fiber plant," the council wrote in the comments filed with the FCC.

According to the FTTH Council Americas, only an extremely small minority of telecoms are still building new copper networks, making the large-scale transition to fiber essential.

Easing fiber deployment
Copper networks represent one of the greatest roadblocks to FTTH installation, but copper infrastructure in telecom networks is not always the problem. Most homes and businesses still require copper cabling infrastructure to support Ethernet functionality. As a result, interoperability issues are a major concern in FTTH deployment. Fiber to Ethernet media converters are an essential tool in resolving this issue and simplifying FTTH installation.

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.