Fiber to the Home Networks helping drive solutions to Global Warming

WASHINGTON - As world leaders head to Copenhagen this week for the climate summit, a non-profit association of technology companies and telecommunications service providers says that accelerating direct fiber optic connections to homes and businesses has broad potential for advancing global climate change solutions.
According to a Fiber To The Home Council-funded study, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the increase in telecommuting from the upgrading America's telecommunications networks to end-to-end fiber will deliver substantial environmental benefits that will outweigh the costs of FTTH deployment in as little as six years
Joe Savage, the chairman of the Fiber To The Home council in North America, has highlighted the impact that fiber to the home service is beginning to have on climate issues.
”By advancing productivity and enabling more work and household activities to take place without the need to travel, fiber to the home broadband has the potential to deliver real reductions in harmful emissions," he said.
There are other ways that the upgrade to all-fiber networks is contributing to greenhouse gas reductions.
Verizon, which operates the largest FTTH network in the U.S., reports that network power consumption for its growing FiOS all-fiber service amounts to only 38 percent of what is required to run its copper-based DSL service.
According to Joe Savage, we are seeing on many different levels evidence that more bandwidth equals more energy savings,   "And there's no doubt that fiber to the home, the most reliable and effective technology for delivering on our ever-growing bandwidth needs for many decades to come, is going to be a big part of the march to a clean energy economy.

Source: Press release FTTH Council www.ftthcouncil.org.