Is FiOS More Like DSL or Cable?

[Angry pirate]

Ok so my question is whether a Fiber Optics Services Line connection is more like a Digital Subscriber Line or a Cable Line connection. Now what i mean by that is a DSL line is a direct connection from the central office to your home over coppper wire. Where as a Cable connection goes into the node and then several coax lines split off and are shared with every other subscriber using that node. I have heard that a FiOS connection is a direct connection from the central office to your home. However I have also heard that a single FiOS line comes from the central office to the node much like cable and then has 32 more FiOS lines that split off from the node. Therefore you would be sharing your connection the same way you do with cable. I think I heard that is was a total of 622 Mbps download/ 155 Mbps upload that is shared by everyone on the node. But to be completely honest I don't really know because I am Comcast subscriber right now just waiting for FiOS to hit my area! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Fiberthree]

The fiber connection is like DSL and cable only much better. As DSL is a direct line from the C.O. to your house, so is the fiber. As cable is slpit off a common run and then sent to an addressable unit to decode and divide the signal, fiber functions almost the same. The fiber is fed to an FDH (fiber distribution hub) where the incoming signal can be separated by a splitter, (The splitters are either 1:32 or 1:16.) you are not sharing the connection because your PON is addressable. Cable T.V. companies also use fiber. But as you mentioned, they take theirs to a node and then send it over copper to the subscribers. Verizon is sending the laser signal directly to the house. No copper, no corrosion, no static! The fiber is capable of transmitting over thirteen million simultaneous telephone conversations and there are OC768 systems in place that have a transmission rate of 39.8 Gbs/s. The signals have been transmitted over fifty miles before being strengthened. There is no need to strengthen Fios since the central offices are much closer to the subscribers.