Use Cases for FTTH: Why Fibre?
- 1. UseCasesfor FTTHBroadband Why do we need Gigabit-Speed Broadband?
- 2. Entertainment Continued growth and innovation in the entertainment sector will create unprecedented demand for bandwidth from fixed connections. 2Luke Kehoe
- 3. Evolution of Streaming Services CDNs will carry 71% of Internet Traffic by 2021 (Cisco). Innovation in on-demand content: • Consumers are gravitating towards larger displays with higher resolutions across all mediums. • Content providers such as Netflix and Amazon are rapidly increasing the availability of 4K HDR content on their platforms. • Traditional pay-tv providers such as Sky in Europe and Comcast in the US are now offering on-demand 4K content and are trialling 4K linear streaming of events. • Apple, Disney and Marvel are developing their own streaming services, widening the appeal of the streaming age and targeting new niches. 3Luke Kehoe
- 4. Why Fibre? • Without Fibre, there will be insufficient capacity available to handle multiple concurrent 4K streams, which each require 25Mbps of throughput. • The move to 8K content, critical for VR applications, will only be possible with the capacity delivered by fibre. • Just as copper broadband revolutionised the entertainment industry, giving rise to services such as YouTube, fibre offers the capacity that future innovations will demand. • Fibre will hasten the death of traditional pay-tv services, aiding the increased proliferation of IPTV. 4Luke Kehoe
- 5. TheIoT Revolution As we connect everything around us to the Internet, capacity demands will soar exponentially. 5Luke Kehoe
- 6. Connecting Everything to the Internet The number of IoT connections is projected to surpass 75 billion by 2025 (Statista). Mass Scale • IoT applications such as connected door locks and air quality monitors demand a limited portion of network bandwidth individually. • However, the density of these IoT devices, which will exist alongside other traditional use cases such as aforementioned streaming, will induce unprecedented capacity demands on fixed networks. • Smart devices such as monitoring cameras require constant, uninterrupted access to a fixed network that delivers a high QoS. • Mission critical IoT applications such as remote surgeries and health monitoring demand ultra-low latency. 6Luke Kehoe
- 7. Why Fibre? Fibre is the only technology that can facilitate the predicted density explosion of IoT devices. • Low latency and an unrivalled QoS ensures mission critical applications can operate without delay. • As the growth of the IoT will involve the sharing of bandwidth between more devices than ever before, only fibre can facilitate future capacity demands. • Unlike smartphones or Smart TVs, simple IoT devices do not currently boast the ability to react to changing network conditions, meaning they require the reliability that fibre delivers. • The back-end for IoT applications will require a high bandwidth connection to compile and extract trends from data in real-time. 7Luke Kehoe
- 8. 8 Facilitating traffic offloaded from the RAN to fixed networks. Luke Kehoe
- 9. Why Fibre? Mobile offload to Wi-Fi already exceeds cellular data traffic. 9 • As the level of traffic carried by the RAN continues to skyrocket, there is a requirement to offload this traffic to fixed networks to prevent congestion and free up valuable spectrum. • The most effective way to alleviate congestion on the RAN is to offload traffic to a Wi-Fi network, which requires a fixed connection for backhaul. • Fibre is the only fixed connection that boasts the capacity to facilitate the offloading of data and voice traffic to a Wi-Fi network. • In this scenario, the offloading of traffic will deliver an enhanced experience for customers using the RAN and allows mobile providers to meet SLAs. Luke Kehoe
- 10. Supportingthe GrowthofAR&VR Immersive Applications will usher in a new era of services and experiences.
- 11. Why Fibre? A VR Live Stream will require throughput in excess of 500Mbps for fluid playback. • The increasing prolificacy of AR & VR in industries such as gaming and education will give birth to new services. • VR applications will enable true-to-life experiences, such as Holographic Calling and Immersive live streaming. • Applications such as VR increase the amount of bandwidth required, on an exponential scale, as each stream is duplicated twice for two eyes. • The growth in availability of FTTH broadband will stimulate an environment in which application developers design products that require high bandwidth. 11Luke Kehoe
- 12. Cloud Computing Fixed networks will support the continued evolution of SaaS and traffic to and from data centres.
- 13. Why Fibre? Global Cloud Data Centre Traffic will breach 19.5ZB by 2021 (Cisco). • The continued growth of Azure, AWS and Cloud Platform for downstream, and particularly, upstream traffic will choke today’s copper networks due to their upload bandwidth limitations. • New Applications for Software as a Service (SaaS), such as the processing and rendering of online games remotely, requires rapid response times and extreme transmission reliability. • As we enter the era of artificial intelligence, deep learning and neural networking, fibre will be required to distribute outputs in real-time. • As “rush hour traffic” is surging at a faster pace than off-peak traffic, the capacity offered by fibre will be necessary for future-proof connectivity. Luke Kehoe 13
- 14. WhyFibre? Luke Kehoe 14 Soaring traffic demands presented by CDNs, driven by increasing prevalence of 4K, 8K, linear live streaming and IPTV will cause copper networks to flounder. The IoT Revolution will create unprecedented demand on fixed networks due to the massive density of connections. The growth of mobile data traffic is unsustainable, and only offloading to a fixed network will liberate spectrum. The incoming tidal wave of AR&VR applications will create entirely new bandwidth requirements. Cloud Computing will continue to demand high throughput from fixed networks, exacerbated by services such as SaaS. Gigabit-Class connectivity will encourage developers to create new services and rush hour traffic continues to skyrocket.