Fiber Connections

FTTX: Stands for fiber to the X, where the X can be one of many things

FTTB: Fiber to the building, fiber to the business or even fiber to the basement, since this is generally where cables to buildings physically enter. FTTB is a setup where fiber technologies are used for data delivery to an individual building

FTTH: Fiber to the home. This is used in instances where fiber is actually run to each individual residents in a neighborhood or apartment building

FTTN: Fiber to the neighborhood. This means that fiber technologies are used to deliver data to a single physical cabinet that serves a certain amount of the population

FTTP: Fiber to the premises. FTTH and FTTB may both also be referred to as FTTP

• Optical Network Terminator: Converts data from protocols the fiber network can understand to those that are more traditional twisted pair copper networks can understand