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Non-visible 1 Gb/s Optical Wired Connectivity for Home

Empower Your Digital Experience with Kdpof’s Innovative Network Solutions for Home and Office Connectivity.

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  • SOHO
CONSUMER

Full Access Speeds on Home Wi-Fi

The POF backbone connects through in-wall cabling in conjunction with individual Wi-Fi access points, thus marrying the benefits of both Wi-Fi and POF: wireless connectivity and reliable wired performance.

Best Online Game and Video Connectivity

POF connectivity provides very low latency and jitter, just like Ethernet wiring but without visible cabling installed. Applications such as Online Gaming or Video Streaming get their Quality of Experience (QoE) maximized.

Easier FTTH Access to the Home

POF wire’s robustness and easy connectorization make an ideal complement for FTTH installations when reaching a centralized place for the router gets complicated for Glass Optical Fiber.

Full Access Speeds on Home Wi-Fi

Home Network

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SOHO

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Enjoy What You Pay to Your ISP: POF Combined with Wi-Fi

The ultimate home network solution is one that combines the advantages of a POF backbone with the ease of installation of Wi-Fi access points throughout the home. It secures 1 Gb/s speed to each access point, avoiding any loss inherently present when doing this on wireless due to distance, walls or interference. POF can easily be installed in any duct throughout the home: power, coaxial, or telephone conduits, or easily hidden on walls, under carpets or through false ceilings. Devices that connect to the network via Wi-Fi will continue to use that connection, but will enjoy the dedicated 1 Gb/s speed of the POF network. This way, Wi-Fi speed experienced anywhere in the home is the same as next to the router.

Why POF instead of Ethernet Copper Wires

Optical fiber has an advantage over copper cable because it is not electrically conductive and its cross section is very thin, so it can be passed through in any duct or collocated next to any wire, even electrical cabling. Consumers are not required to install expensive new ducts or visible trunking on the wall.

Benefits of Plastic Optical Fiber

  • Cost-efficient.
  • Robust.
  • Highly tolerant to bending and installation manipulation.
  • Today’s offered speeds of 1 Gb/s are sufficient for most of today’s home networks; however, it can scale up to higher speeds in the future.
  • Easy to install as a do‐it-yourself network with no specific skills required.
  • Very easy connectorization and low cost components.
Benefits of Plastic Optical Fiber

Home Networks Are Critical for Quality of Experience

While access speeds have increased, customer satisfaction rates have dropped since home networks cannot keep up – many ISPs are facing this paradox. Customers expect to experience the speeds they are paying for. If these speeds are lower than expected, they are disappointed and the Quality of Experience declines. KDPOF and Telefónica have tested the benefits of POF with the result that KDPOF’s technology helps to provide subscribers with very high sustained connectivity speeds all around the home, levels that both wireless or powerline as backbone for Wi-Fi Mesh devices cannot reach. As Manager for client equipment in Telefónica, Marcos Benito García confirmed: “Plastic Optical Fiber allows Telefónica to extend our Wi-Fi coverage by deploying a backbone in the customer’s home, which guarantees 1 Gb/s connection speeds throughout the house. This allowed the test group to enjoy our TV service and other, new services we are offering, like online gaming and 4K (also known as Ultra HD TV), in the highest quality.” Accordingly, the combination of Wi-Fi with POF can increase Quality of Experience dramatically, leading to a surge in customer loyalty. For details, please see the white paper:
Consumer

Fast Ethernet Applications

Medical Equipment

Numerous medical devices rely on the benefits of optical fibers such as galvanic isolation, EMC immunity, electrical safety and high speed communications.

Medical technology applications for POF include: medical video and imaging, radiography such as X-ray scanners, magnetic resonance systems, devices for high energy deliveries, and medical robotics.

Best Online Gaming and Video Connectivity

Securing Gaming and Multimedia Streaming: Low Latency and Jitter

Certain services such as online gaming and video streaming are quite sensitive to delays or minor errors in transmission, causing effects that are very easily noticeable. They are very likely to ruin the service experience. Gamers hate these delays, known as ping or lag. This is latency. This delay between an action the player intends to perform in the game and its actual effect on the screen can totally ruin the experience. And in terms of video, any error in the end to end connection between the server and the renderer can cause retransmissions and out-of-sequence information. This is jitter. While Wi-Fi links provide latencies on the level of milliseconds, POF is on the level of microseconds (1000 times better).
Securing Gaming and Multimedia Streaming: Low Latency and Jitter

Home Networking is not just Mb/s: The Importance of Latency and Jitter

The Quality of Experience for services such as Online Gaming depends greatly on the latency experience in the end to end network, from the game server to the console. The Home Network is part of that end to end network and therefore any added latency has an appreciable effect. Since wired connectivity adds negligible latency to the path, it is mostly preferred over wireless for the in-home portion. Together with the ease of installation, lack of aesthetic impact, robustness, and stability, POF is the ideal solution to contribute to a perfect online gaming experience. For details, please see the white paper:

Easier FTTH Access to the Home

Placing the Router in the Right Place

Fiber To The Home (FTTH) deployments use Glass Optical Fiber to reach homes and bring very high speeds to end users so that ISPs are able to provide advanced services. Glass Optical Fiber is ideal to bridge long distances and to provide a high capacity pipe. Once reaching homes, the Optical Network Unit and Residential Gateway terminate the network to offer connectivity to the end users over LAN ports and mainly Wi-Fi. The location of that termination point is then critical for a good Quality of Experience. Termination points that are located in a garage, basement or any other part of the home that is not in a more central location is the number one reason for poor Wi-Fi coverage, not to speak about its performance. Glass Optical Fiber is the best way to reach the homes, but its fragility and careful handling when trying to get into homes due to corners, bends required, and colocation within existing pipes sometimes limits the ability of installers to place the termination point in the right place. POF provides an alternative to overcome these architectural roadblocks due to its robustness, easy installation and connectorization.
Placing the Router in the Right Place

No Need for Additional Splicing Inside the Home

POF provides this very useful option when the Optical Network Unit (ONU) and the Residential Gateway are separate devices. If they are not, the concept is applied installing an additional Wi-Fi AP or Wi-Fi Mesh device in the right location. Otherwise, Glass Optical Fiber should be installed further inside the home, using a different type of fiber, less sensitive to bending. This option requires splicing the access fiber to this in-home fiber and then attaching the patch cord to the ONT+Router. This represents more splicing in the FTTH installation, which is a more sensitive manipulation prone to issues. Additionally, glass optical fiber has to be routed and installed on the wall with glue or tracking tapes around the home. This process takes a long time and leaves the fiber exposed and unprotected from any eventuality that could affect the cable.

Product for Home Networks

The KDPOF transceiver KD1053 incorporates leading-edge digital communication technology developed by KDPOF, which is based on the company’s reliable and short time-to-market ASIC architecture. 

The custom Digital Signal Processor is based on Transport Triggered Architecture (TTA), optimized for adaptive filtering.

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