European FTTH climate could soon heat up

The problem, Tauber told the news source, is that investors are looking to sponsor large projects and much of the FTTH work in Europe is being done by smaller groups. The major investors do not have the ability to identify these small organizations, while the groups sponsoring local FTTH projects lack the skills needed to get the attention of large investors and handle the relationship. This is limiting FTTH spending in Europe, but is something the council is hoping to resolve, creating growth opportunities in the sector.

Making the most of FTTH projects
Maximizing the benefits of FTTH investment often depends on building the networks as efficiently as possible. Fiber to Ethernet media converters play a major role in this process and can help groups sponsoring projects more cost-effectively develop FTTH infrastructure. The technology resolves any interoperability issues that occur when the fiber network has to attach to copper-based Ethernet systems, something that is a common need in FTTH installations.

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.