Optical Solutions Inc. announced that planned-community developer CPDC will deploy its FiberPath fiber-to-the-home system to 1200 homes in the Evermoor community in Rosemount, Minnesota. New homes under construction in Evermoor will have access to the Twin Cities' first fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network, delivering high speed Internet access, analog and digital television, and carrier-class telephone service.
A fiber optic link installed as part of the new home construction will provide up to four lines of telephone service as well as access to additional broadband services, including 80 channels of cable television channels and high-speed Internet data up to 10Mbps. In the future, Evermoor residents will be able to receive up to 100Mbps of data capacity, 200 digital and analog television channels, pay-per-view options and "smart home" services, where residents can control heating, cooling, lighting, security and other home functions remotely.
Optical Solutions is powering this network with its FiberPath FTTH platform, which features patented broadband technology that enables service providers to deploy scalable voice, video, and data services over a single fiber optic network. This "future proof" network has plenty of bandwidth to accommodate the ever-expanding list of high-speed Internet and video interactive services.
The companies already have installed fiber to the first seven distinct neighborhood areas that will comprise phase one of the Evermoor community, and expect to have all "move-in" ready homes up and running by July 1, 2001. Other homes will be "automatically" connected upon their completion over the next year to eighteen months. Tompkins is opening a fiber-to-the-home demo center in mid-June at the Evermoor land office.
The networked community will also include broadband network benefits to Rosemount schools, business and civic and community organizations.
As a complete fiber-optic solution for FTTH deployments, FiberPath encompasses three sets of equipment: a headend bay of equipment, which can be co-located with a class 5 switch or interconnected through a GR-303 interface, a cost-effective passive optical network (PON) system to "split" the fiber from the central switching office to the home, and a customer premise node.
The headend bay sends and receives laser-driven light signals through optical fiber cables to and from a residence-mounted node via the passive optical network. The node is mounted on the side of each home and converts the optical signals into electronic signals needed for subscribers' existing telephones, televisions and data modems. All of the construction (all the network components) is trenched underground to achieve improved neighborhood aesthetics.
About Optical Solutions Inc.:
Optical Solutions Inc. provides its patented FiberPath fiber to the home (FTTH) solution, which incorporates a passive optical network (PON) for broadband delivery of high-speed data, voice, and video directly to the home and broader community. For more information, visit www.opticalsolutions.com.