New FTTH project highlights value of technology to communities

Many experts believe that telecom customers will rarely pay more for faster speeds when they are fairly satisfied with the performance of their existing solution. Instead, most consumers will wait until prices drop for the exciting technology and access it later. This means that many areas where quality broadband is already widely available at a low price end up with relatively low FTTH subscriber rates because consumers do not switch over from their current services. However, the volume of potential customers still makes these attractive areas to build.

Rural regions, conversely, often lack the population density to justify a large-scale FTTH project. The issues is that they also tend to not have access to the high-quality broadband services that are common in other regions. As a result, many rural communities end up putting significant value on FTTH investment because it gives them access to the kind of network performance needed to keep up with contemporary business demands and support many common consumer services.

While FTTH demand is often high in rural areas, building networks must be done inexpensively to avoid revenue limitations. This makes cost-efficient media converters a vital component of rural FTTH installation.

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.