| has gloss | eng: Ethernet To The Home (ETTH) is a specific application of Fiber to the premises (FTTP) that first emerged in a Palo Alto, California garage in 1999. Where FTTP and Fiber To The Home (FTTH) are focused upon the physical delivery medium of "fiber" optic cables, ETTH envisioned a more generalized solution for evolving the carrier networks from a circuit switched model to an entirely packet switched model using Ethernet as opposed to ATM and other competing standards. In this way, and in contrast to the strictly fiber-centric views of FTTH advocates, ETTH was envisioned to establish fiber optics as a reliable backbone network that would serve as a foundation for extending Ethernet Everywhere incorporating other future-looking technologies such as Wifi and WiMAX. |