Growing FTTH adoption reaches more cities

In Austin, Texas, where Google has announced its next FTTH opportunity will take place, AT&T has also begun to expand its own FTTH service. The service is planned to reach 1 Gbps speeds - the same as Google's offerings - by the end of 2014, but currently only provides 300 Mbps.

"Austinites consume data at rates 15 percent to 20 percent higher than the average U-verse user, and the overwhelming adoption of our new U-verse High Speed Internet 300 broadband service confirms that this community also values time and speed," noted Dahna Hull, vice president and general manager in Austin for AT&T Services.

While it is unknown if consumers in the Austin area will show a preference for Google's coming service or AT&T already deployed option, the trend toward fiber-optic Internet service is astounding.

Across the nation, cities and other service providers need to consider their own deployments and invest in the necessary fiber to Ethernet media converter solutions necessary to expedite them. Upgrading service to FTTH will only increase in demand, and meeting those expectations will be critical for companies looking to maintain their competitive edge in the future.

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.