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FTTx fibre-optic access offer new very high speed service.

what do we mean?

FTTx fibre-optic access can extend the available ADSL service offer to include upstream and downstream very high speed (up to 100 Mbps), with improved response time. There are different types of FTTx optical connection architectures: FTTB (fibre to the building), FTTH (fibre to the home) and FTTC (fibre to the curb).

what’s the coverage?

In France, FTTH rollout started in 2007 in several major cities (Paris and the Hauts-de-Seine, Lille, Marseille, Poitiers, Toulouse).The goals are ambitious: investment of 2 billion euros to guarantee coverage for 10 million homes by 2015 and 15 million homes, representing 60% of all homes, by 2020, across 3,600 districts. France Telecom-Orange has signed in 2011 with Free and SFR and in 2012 with Bouygues, infrastructure sharing agreements to accelerate the deployment of optical fiber. At the end of 2011, fiber coverage was available in the 20 largest French cities with over 900,000 connectable homes.

An FTTH fiber network has also been deployed in Slovakia. In Spain, France Telecom-Orange has announced in June 2012 an investment plan of 300 million euros in FTTH over the next four years.

In Poland, the Group also invests in high-speed broadband by deploying an alternative technology, the VDSL (Very high bit-rate DSL). This technique uses the existing copper network and permits to offer speeds up to 40 Mbit / s and 80 Mbit / s. The first commercial offers have been launched in 2011. The deployment of VDSL will continue in the coming years to expand the geographic coverage in this country.

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  1.  watch the animation: high speed and very high speed internet

 

 
last update: 08 March 2013