When dial-up first came out, it gave ordinary residential customers access to the wonders of the World Wide Web. Since then, technology has developed so that the Internet is now a precious asset more than ever. It allows people to keep in contact with each other, provides important facts, and allows people who knows how to work their way around it to be self-sufficient. Living without the internet is almost unimaginable right now. High-bandwidth software are abundant in the internet and are used daily by professional and amateurs users. Speediness and constancy, in the internet language, is the only way to be at the top. Enterprising telecommunication companies know this and take advantage of this knowledge. Because of this, these companies are now scrambling to give their customers the best service they could provide. From dial-up to broadband to ADSL 2+, the internet has now evolved and produced fibre broadband. This utilizes a cable, called fibre optic cable, which cannot be easily destroyed. They are also more resistant to electromagnetic interference, thus guaranteeing higher bandwidth. Technological developments have caused the cost of fibre optic technology to decrease dramatically so that it is now readily available not just for commercial use, but also for residential customers. Fibre broadband is one such fibre optic broadband technology.
Telephone and cable-TV companies during the 1970's thought they needed to remove their metallic cables and use fibre cables instead. The companies experimented on a mix of fibre and metallic cables to answer the difficulties posed by fibre optics being still underdeveloped, exorbitant, and unaffordable.
Faced with these challenges, these companies brought about FTTC or fibre to the cabinet. Copper wires connect the subscriber to a cabinet around or in their street when using FTTC broadband. From the cabinet, fibre optic is then used to connect to the local telephone exchange. At first, because fibre optics was too steep-priced, only businesses were able to afford them. But copper wires are now slowly becoming premium commodity as fibre optic prices steadily decreases with the passing of time. FTTC can now be furnished to residential customers due to this fact.
A subscriber needs to connect his computer or router, if he has one, to a VDSL2 capable router if he wants to use FTTC broadband. This also needs a device that supports PPPoE before one can use it. Customers using routers with built-in ADSL modems will have to get a new router as their old routers will not work with a FTTC connection. Using this optical fibre broadband, one can expect a download speed of up to 40Mbps, and upload speed of anywhere from 2Mbps to 10 Mbps. However, these numbers will vary according to how far away a customer is from the cabinet. The shorter the copper cables, the higher bandwidth it allows. These speeds are predicted to go up to 60Mbps and 15Mbps for download and upload respectively in a few years.
The availability of this fibre broadband U.K. has at the present is quite limited. To keep U.K. up to date with the other countries, fibre optical broadband companies are hurrying to get this technology to more subscribers as fast as possible.
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