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Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by baisq on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:36PM (#31541660)
What is FTTP? How does it differ from FTTH?
Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by Symbiote on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:47PM (#31541764)
Fibre to the premesis. For a large building, the fibre terminates in the basement and further distribution is with ethernet.

(But see also the first paragraph of the article.)

Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by BVCommander on Saturday May 28, 2022 @02:04PM (#31542391)
G.fast is common in older blocks where rewiring with ethernet or fiber isn't feasible.
Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by KaiserPro on Saturday May 28, 2022 @03:17PM (#31542910)
Others have given the technical differences.

The practical differences are that FTTP is normally fibre provided by openreach. Openreach being the dominant heavily regulated monopoly. They provide the link, and ISPs resell over the top.

FTTH is normally fibre provided by the same company as the ISP, and so has a much smaller area of coverage.

Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by matthewmacleod on Saturday May 28, 2022 @05:19PM (#31543969)
No: FTTP and FTTH are the same thing. It’s just that in the case of FTTH the Premises in FTT”P” is a Home. It’s a colloquial difference and doesn’t represent any difference in technology or provision.
Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by KaiserPro on Sunday May 29, 2022 @04:54AM (#31547581)
Perhaps I should have been clearer, FTTP is what openreach calls running a fibre to your house, FTTH is what most over companies call it.
Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by boulos on Saturday May 28, 2022 @06:34PM (#31544456)
As others have said, it just distinguishes between "Premises" and "Home". They're the same. They differ from FTTN (Node) or in the UK apparently FTTC (Cabinet) which is one of the boxes outside "near" your home or office, much like DSL works.
Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by OJFord on Saturday May 28, 2022 @06:54PM (#31544585)
They're not (always) the same, a distinction can be drawn in the case if blocks of flats (and perhaps terraces, especially where council/mgmt company managed?) whereby FTTP means it's fibre to the block and copper to the flats. FTTH in such cases would afaik be pretty unusual, but hypothetically would mean that each flat has it own fibre termination.

FTTP aka FTTB (Building). The nomenclature's all a bit ridiculous IMO.

Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by smokeyfish on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:46PM (#31541755)
Fibre to the premises, the same as FTTH
Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by AtheistOfFail on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:38PM (#31541679)
Fiber to the pole.

It's copper from the telephone pole to your home. It's cheaper to implement and gives you less overprovisioning.

Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by gandalfian on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:47PM (#31541769)
Fiber To The Premises. Meaning the fibre optic cable comes right to your home as opposed to FTTC Fibre To The Cabinet which means only as far as the telephone cabinet and then copper to you. It is unfortunate that fibre has been used so widely as a marketing term it's now often nearly impossible to tell what technology is actually being advertised.
Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by ajb on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:48PM (#31541783)
No, this is Fibre to the Premises, IE actual fibre all the way to your house.
Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by IntelMiner on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:35PM (#31542158)
No, that's FTTC (Fiber to the Curb)
Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by james_in_the_uk on Saturday May 28, 2022 @02:13PM (#31542449)
Fibre to the Cabinet, in the UK
Re:London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50 by baisq on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:46PM (#31541759)
Ew