Thread: MTNL Fiber to the Home (FTTH) to offer 10Gbps High speed Broadband

State-owned telecom PSU MTNL today announced launch of its Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services in Mumbai. The same will be launched in Delhi circle from 1st May, 2011. With FTTH, a path breaking technology, MTNL will offer lighting fast High speed Broadband with speed up to 10 Gbps. Through this optic fiber technology MTNL will deliver world class Triple Play (voice-video-data) experience to the consumers. The abundant FTTH bandwidth will enable MTNL to provide host of products like IPTV, HDTV, 3DTV, video on demand , Bandwidth on Demand, Video conferencing , interactive gaming , and several other VAS based on Triple play.

The prevalent and popular broadband service through landline is delivered through copper cable which has bandwidth limit. Thus the applications which require high bandwidth can’t be provided through DSL broadband. So far the internet service providers in India were focusing mainly on data services. But now the market is gradually maturing for other services like HDTV tc. FTTH (Fibre to the home) has the bandwidth capability to support such services .

Today MTNL also introduced NGCN (Next Generation Converged Network) in Mumbai. NGCN network is based on MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) technology and offers enhanced VPN (Virtual Private Network) services with connectivity speeds going upto 10 Gbps. This is provided over a High Performance secure network which can carry Voice, Data and Video traffic from the customer into a single converged IP network. Also the network can scale to meet the ever changing communication requirements. In its path breaking endeavour company has launched its data center services (Read more).

What is the main diffrence between both the services current DSL broadband and new FTTH Broadband and what are the new experience a consumer get in FTTH as i see the unlimited plans for FTTH having fair usage policy, however as of my 5 years of DLS Broadband experience with mtnl i never came to know any fair usage policy for DSL Broadband plans. So i would request you to kindly explain more on FTTH service as MTNL CC guys are not able to explain.

janranjan, think of it rather remember it this way

Fiber optic > Cable > DSL (> means better than)

Higher speeds are possible with fiber optic than cable.

Hope that helps.

what r the tariff ?