Welcome to the IPTV section of this website!

This will be kept very simple with only the information you need.

AT&T Project LightSpeed.

 Any service under this IPTV area must be Fiber to the Node and nothing more and as of now several companies are doing Fiber To The Node (FTTN) such as AT&T.  Fiber to the node means that fiber isn't run to the back of your house like FTTH from Verizon is.  So with FTTN the fiber is run from your Central Office to about a mile or so before your house and it stays copper from that point to your home.  Verizon FIOS service does exactly what FTTN does but unlike FTTN Verizon runs fiber that last mile to your home instead of using the copper lines.  This method that Verizon uses costs much much more money but it also offers a massive difference in bandwidth.  FTTN can't offer much more than one HDTV channel in the entire home period.  This means that if you get their phone, internet and TV service you only have enough bandwidth to use the internet, phone and watch one room of HDTV.  With no HDTV in the mix you can watch no more than 3-4 digital channel feeds in the house.  This means that just two DVR boxes is the max you can have if that.  FTTN can do VOD but again VOD uses one of those 3-4 max streams of data for TV service.  In simple terms its a great alternative for two room customers who don't have or plan to get an HDTV set.  But if you have one HDTV set and want HD programming your going to be very limited even more than satellite is today.

Now Verizon can do tons of HDTV, digital channels, VOD, DVRs in more than 4 rooms easy without breaking a sweat.  I hope this gives you a good breakdown about the differences between IPTV (aka FTTN) vs. Fiber (aka FTTH).