Fiber-to-the-home’s newfound status as the preeminent wireline solution coupled with the emergence of IP video are driving higher bandwidth requirements into rural America. A seldom mentioned byproduct of these rural deployments is a need to link remote central office and hub locations over substantial distances. The capacity of those links will define the ability to deliver next-generation services in the last mile, and the distances those links support may introduce issues which were previously the exclusive domain of longhaul backbone providers. This paper examines those issues and defines the points where they come into play for a rural FTTH deployment.|Fiber-to-the-home’s newfound status as the preeminent wireline solution coupled with the emergence of IP video are driving higher bandwidth requirements into rural America. A seldom mentioned byproduct of these rural deployments is a need to link remote central office and hub locations over substantial distances. The capacity of those links will define the ability to deliver next-generation services in the last mile, and the distances those links support may introduce issues which were previously the exclusive domain of longhaul backbone providers. This paper examines those issues and defines the points where they come into play for a rural FTTH deployment.

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