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SIP and Voice Over Digital Cable directly to the home including triple play and fiber to the premises

Digital cable providers are marketing telephone service over their cables. With a cable modem high speed data connection the customer may chose to use voice over the Internet using a SIP phone. Cable providers spent billions upgrading their systems, and must study the issue.

As a provider you can interface your business over digital cable if your provider permits business accounts. Wireless handsets can link to wireless routers. Notebook computers can also link to wireless routers. No matter how you get your signal it can be profitable.

At this time, telephone companies are testing television over phone lines, while cable operators are sending television, internet and telephone over coaxial cable to homes and businesses. Profits come from outlying areas where "triple play" services are not available. The down side is that if only one backbone service is available, such as Sprint, then all costs are relative to what Sprint charges to bring T-1 or higher speed service to you. WiMax may be an option to overcome this obstacle.

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Fiber to the Home will play an important role in bandwidth and what can be delivered. Some areas will have fiber optic cable right on the exterior of the home. Others will have copper cable or wire to the pole where it goes onto fiber optic. Underground applications work the same way. Speed depends on the equipment located on the head end of the system. While DSL may run at 1.5 Mbps or higher, cable television providers can supply high speed internet at speeds over 4 Mbps. DSL access providers must upgrade their equipment to provide higher speed at a competitive price.

Cable television systems which are basically closed end systems receive their programming by satellite, amplify it, process it, and send it to the home. For a cable television comapny to provide Internet access they must have access to high speed trunk lines that connect to the Internet backbone. The cost can be high. What we see in rural areas is no cable modem and no cable Internet because there is no competition at the access level, thus connecting to the backbone is not profitable. See our pages on WiFi, Wireless, and others to see alternatives and work arounds.

Fiber to the Premises (FTTP),Fiber to the Home (FTTH), or fiber to the building (FTTB) is a broadband telecommunications system based on fiber-optic cables and associated optical electronics for delivery of multiple advanced services such as of telephone, broadband Internet and television across one link (triple play) all the way to the home or business. Current research forecasts that the total FTTP market for equipment, cable, and apparatus will reach $3.2 billion in 2009