Delivering High Speed Internet to Business

This presentation discusses the topic of delivering high speed internet to business. Over the past few years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of businesses that require a high speed (Gigabit Ethernet) connection to the internet. In addition, the rapid rise in the use of mobile data has created a need for high bandwidth connections to mobile phone base stations. Cable companies are ideally placed to provide these high bandwidth services to businesses and high capacity backhaul from mobile phone base stations. This is because of the location of the fibre already installed in their HFC networks. Cable TV companies' HFC networks often have between 2 to 4 unused fibres that can be used to provide data services to business customers. The capacity of the unused fibres in the HFC network is limited, but can be expanded by using Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing CWDM. Single Fibre CWDM technology allows a much greater increase in capacity than conventional CWDM. It allows up to 10 wavelengths to be transmitted in both directions down a single fibre and this enables the connection of Gigabit Ethernet to 10 customers using a single fibre.