The Future of the Spanish Fork Community Network
SFCN continues to expand their Fiber to the Home and Business network.
The system is bringing additional speeds and reliability to the customers of
SFCN. Unlike almost any other network, SFCN is keeping the Internet data
completely separate from cable television channels which consume the bandwidth
delivered in a traditional FTTH system. By continuing to leave the CATV
service on coax, all of the bandwidth offered by FTTH can be used for Internet
speed and throughput.
The active ethernet system being installed offers the most robust, reliable
and upgradeable system possible. Other FTTH networks use shared fibers and
daisy chained homes while using bandwidth for cable TV services. Those TV
services can consume large amounts of the available bandwidth and the daisy
chained homes are dependent on each other for bandwidth and to even stay
connected to the network. The active ethernet system runs a fully separate
fiber to each home and back to the node. Customers performance and reliability
isn't dependent on their neighbors.
SFCN is building the system using only the revenue from the existing hybrid
fiber coax system. Unlike almost all other FTTH installations, we are building
the system without getting new bond money. Compare that to the Utopia network
which has repeatedly gone back for more and more money for their FTTH
installation.
SFCN is offering free installation and greatly increased speeds without a price
increase. SFCN is upgrading all PLUS and Premium tier Internet customers to
the FTTH network at no cost to the customer. Existing customers are having
fiber run into their home to give them access to the most technically advanced
network possible. Prices for the PLUS and Premium tiers of service are not
increasing. The City council has agreed that SFCN can upgrade the system to
FTTH without increasing the price of the existing tiers. While prices will
stay the same, speeds of the PLUS and Premium tiers have greatly increased!
The FTTH PLUS tier has 100 mbps downstream and 100 mbps upstream for only $38
or $45 (without CATV service) per month. The Premium tier has been upgraded to
a full 1 gigabit per second downstream and 1 gigabit per second upstream for
the same $68 or $75 per month.
This new Fiber to the Home network is the next step in ensuring the success of
the Spanish Fork Community Network for decades to come. Fiber has been proven
the fastest, most reliable method of delivering data and the active ethernet
system being installed is state-of-the-art technology. As network requirements
increase, the active ethernet system can easily be upgraded to 10 gigabit per
second or even 100 gigabit per second. The upgrades can be scaled as customers
demand faster speeds without affecting existing speed tiers. As new technology
becomes available, the Spanish Fork Community Network will continue to provide
the most technically advanced data network possible.
John Bowcut
Director of Information Systems
Spanish Fork City
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