From maps to Gbps: reality capture technology is being leveraged for fibre-to-the-home infrastructure. The digital economy is growing at an unprecedented rate, and global data consumption will increase exponentially over the next decade. Fibre-optic networks form the backbone of the digital infrastructure necessary to support the pace of growth, but the pressure is on to roll them out fast enough. This article explores the scale of the challenge, and shows how the geospatial industry is a crucial part of the solution. Thanks to mobile mapping, and particularly Lidar technology, everyone will be able to tap in to the enormous opportunities offered by high-speed fibre-optic internet.
A modern fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) or fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) infrastructure is essential to support the transformation to a full-scale digitized economy. This broadband technology utilizes optical fibre to provide reliable, high-speed internet directly to individual buildings, including homes, individual apartments and businesses. FTTH received a huge boost during the COVID-19 pandemic, when millions of employees ended up working from home. This created a massive need for bandwidth and reliable fast internet, coming straight to their door. And although laser-based and quantum internet solutions are currently being developed, until they actually materialize FTTH is the fastest solution around.
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