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Driving fibre closer to the home

The advent of bandwidth-hungry multimedia services such as video on demand and Internet-protocol-based TV is driving operators to deploy high-speed fibre-to-the-home connections.

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Figure 1: Decreasing copper-loop lengths, increasing bandwidth.

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Twist, K. Driving fibre closer to the home. Nature Photon 1, 149–150 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.15

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