FTTH & FTTB Confusion

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Leoxii2000

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Hey guys,

I have a question. It may be a bit stupid but I am not getting it.

We recently asked Vox for a feasibility study. When they got back to us, they said there is fibre and drew on the map where the fibre line is running and quoted us on FTTB. I told them that I wanted them to quote me on a capped home package. They got back to me and said unfortunately there isn't FTTH in this area.

Am I missing something? According to me, fibre is fibre. The service going through the fibre connection should be irrelevant. Even Axxess says that they can provide fibre to us, so I am very confused. Would someone be able to tell me whether I am looking at this wrong?

Thanks!
 
I'm guessing FTTB (fibre-to-the-building) is so they can have multiple clients and not just one like FTTH.
 
FTTB is for a business use case, generally it has an SLA agreement, 1:1 contention and various other goodies a home user don't use. It isn't a thing about any fibre being used for anything, but rather feasibility. It won't make sense to trench 200+m for a single user at FTTH pricing.
 
The price is reliant on the line fee charged by the operator, if your building was a house in a FTTH area then you could possibly get home pricing. If it's in an office park and DFA has terminated into the park then the ISP needs to pay DFA for the line, which as mentioned includes SLAs and all sorts. (DFA also deployed a R5bn network to service business country wide) So they need to recoup those costs somehow. It's not the ISP just trying to take you for a ride which a lot of people think :).
 
While the tech is basically the same, how they install and price it is different between FTTH and FTTB.

For FTTH, they typically do an entire neighbourhood at at time. They dig trenches in both sides of the road, and place a termination point outside every house, regardless of whether or not they sign up. This allows them to provide fibre at a fairly low cost per house, but they need a large percentage of houses to sign up.

For FTTB, they would lay fibre directly to the building, skipping any potential houses / other buildings along the way. This means that it either needs to be a large building (lots of customers), or at least one client in the building willing to pay a lot (big company). This is also why some people would have fibre going right past their house, without being able to get FTTH themselves.

So the only way you would be able to get FTTH, is to get enough interest from your neighbourhood, and then get one of the fibre providers to do FTTH for the entire neighbourhood.
 
falcrum said:
While the tech is basically the same, how they install and price it is different between FTTH and FTTB.

For FTTH, they typically do an entire neighbourhood at at time. They dig trenches in both sides of the road, and place a termination point outside every house, regardless of whether or not they sign up. This allows them to provide fibre at a fairly low cost per house, but they need a large percentage of houses to sign up.

For FTTB, they would lay fibre directly to the building, skipping any potential houses / other buildings along the way. This means that it either needs to be a large building (lots of customers), or at least one client in the building willing to pay a lot (big company). This is also why some people would have fibre going right past their house, without being able to get FTTH themselves.

So the only way you would be able to get FTTH, is to get enough interest from your neighbourhood, and then get one of the fibre providers to do FTTH for the entire neighbourhood.
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Hi falcrum. Thank you, this explanation made a lot of sense. Have a good day.
 
FTTB
Fiber to the business or building

FTTC
Fiber to the curb or customer

FTTD
Fiber to the desk

FTTH
Fiber to the home

FTTN
Fiber to the neighborhood

FTTO
Fiber to the office

FTTP
Fiber to the pedestal or pedestal
 
andyz40 said:
FTTB
Fiber to the business or building

FTTC
Fiber to the curb or customer

FTTD
Fiber to the desk

FTTH
Fiber to the home

FTTN
Fiber to the neighborhood

FTTO
Fiber to the office

FTTP
Fiber to the pedestal or pedestal
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Which one is Openserve's fibre to the cabinet?
 
OP, you mention that Axxess said they can give you fibre. Did they mention which one, FTTB or FTTH?
 
pinball wizard said:
OP, you left off some vital information. Are you a business (B) or home user(H)?
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Hi pinball wizard. Sorry for my absence, it has been crazy busy.

The info gathering was for one of my customers. To answer your question, yes, a small home based business.
 
SharkBait said:
OP, you mention that Axxess said they can give you fibre. Did they mention which one, FTTB or FTTH?
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Hi SharkBait,

I checked their website. However, maybe after doing the Pre-order they will only tell you "Sorry"

Please see snip below.

Axxess Fibre.jpg
 
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