Fiber to the premises in the United States

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This article describes fiber to the premises in the United States.

In the United States, the largest fiber to the premises (FTTP) deployment to date is Verizon's FiOS. Verizon is the only Regional Bell Operating Company thus far to deploy FTTP on a large scale. Verizon's initial FTTP offering was based on Broadband Passive Optical Network (BPON) technology. Verizon is planning to introduce Gigabit PON or GPON, a faster optical access technology.

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With its U-Verse product, AT&T (formerly SBC) has pursued a strategy of Fiber to the Neighborhood (FTTN) and is now delivering Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) to select areas. AT&T has deployed FTTN in the Dallas, Texas area, including Richardson, Texas. The company is now upgrading the telephone and broadband Internet network to deliver FTTP in this area.

Connexion Technologies (formerly known as Capitol Infrastructure) currently serves over 100 communities with FTTH services that include phone, internet, television and home security.

Mstar.net currently offers services in Utah's UTOPIA and iProvo projects and greenfield development projects in Utah. The company has thousands of customers installed and working. Mstar offers Internet, Telephone, and IPTV Television services all over fiber.

Broadweave Networks has multiple FTTP installations in new or greenfield communities in the west, including a contract with the Utah State Trust Lands Administration for up to 21,000 units in Washington County, Utah. Broadweave's first community, Traverse Mountain, is Located in Lehi, Utah.

EATEL offers FTTP in the Ascension Parish, Louisiana area. Services currently available via their fiber-optic network include telephone, broadband Internet and television, which includes video on demand and regular broadcasts.

T² Communications of Holland, MI has deployed Fiber to the Home in order to deliver phone, television (IPTV) and Internet services, and is actively building its own fiber network.

Cedar Falls Utilities is installing FTTP in new or greenfield communities with the goal to completely replace their HFC plant by 2015.

Qlevr Media Inc. - The first FTTH provider in Georgia offering television, telephone, Internet access, and home security over a single fiber.

Embarq (formerly Sprint/Nextel LTD) currently has FTTP available in three areas: Wake Forest, North Carolina, Winter Park, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Windstream Communications currently has FTTP available in many greenfield markets throughout the southern states.

PES Energize is providing video, voice and data services through an FTTP network in Pulaski, Tennessee.

Telephone Service Company has completed deployment of their FTTH in the City of St. Marys, Ohio, a first for the bright.net affiliates in Ohio.^[1]

Molalla Communications Company, of Molalla, Oregon, provides FTTP services to nearly half its subscriber base, and Fiber to the node for its remaining areas.

Several carriers, municipalities, and planned communities across America are deploying their own fiber networks.

The city of San Francisco has released a feasibility study for government and public broadband via fiber optics. This was the result of San Francisco supervisors' vote to adopt a resolution to encourage certain city departments to consider installing FTTP for use primarily in city operations. This then evolved into the fiber feasibility study which also includes "services to businesses and residents." The study estimated build-out costs of $564 million. It has been released as a draft in order for members of the public to provide comment and input.

Service providers using Active FTTP technologies include YRT2 Inc., PAXIO Inc., SureWest, iProvo, Grant County, Washington, UTOPIA, and Broadweave Networks. Service providers using passive optical networks include Verizon (FiOS), AT&T (U-Verse), and several greenfield development networks.

There are also two other FTTH providers, which are iProvo based in Provo, UT and UTOPIA based in Salt Lake County, UT. These FTTH municipal fiber networks are an open network to many ISPs including Mstar, Veracity, Xmission, and other service providers who have bought onto the network. The speeds of the network range around 15 Mbit/s Up and Down for residential use and 30 Mbit/s Up and down for business use.

Mstaris currently offering a 50Mbps connection on the UTOPIA network for $39.95 per month. Additionally, Mstar offers telephone and television services. Mstar is among the only companies to offer IPTVservices.

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