The Application of AT&T's Fiber-To-The-Home System

The last road-block to unlimited bandwidth service to the customer has fallen with the introduction of fiber cables into the distribution plant. AT&T's Fiber-To-The-Home system, which first went into residential service in New Jersey Bell in August 1988, is a new feature of the SLC(R) Series 5 Digital Loop Carrier System. The architecture of SLC Series 5 has been extended from a fiber feeder only system to include fiber cable in the distribution plant, both fiber distribution cable and fiber drop cable. Immediately following the first cutover, three other SLC Series 5 Fiber-To-The-Home systems in Southwestern Bell, South Central Bell and CONTEL of California were turned up and placed into service before the end of 1988.