No. Fiber is rumored to have almost infinite bandwidth and possibly that's what starts this question.
Fiber Optics is used for long range communications where low voltage electrical signals (like those that go on LAN or cat6 /6a cabling) cannot propagate ore lengths beyond 100m. This scenario is not faced in almost all homes of this project. Fiber also cannot supply power to PoE style devices. And cat6 speeds are common at 1 GbE (just as Fiber) with 10GbE on the horizon (it will require extremely expensive equipment to support such speeds on optical fiber). On a per port basis optical fiber maybe 10 times expensive than LAN with little or no support on home devices and appliances.
From a user perspective, its very hard for any home user to fully saturate the 1 GbE link bandwidth of cat 6/6a and these ca6/6a can support 10 GbE in future. So the use cases of "infinite bandwidth" are non-existent now in the home (and possibly in the 10 year period too). it can also handle any high-speed broadband service (10 Gbps) for the next 10 years in India. We are just stuck at 100 mbps at the premium end mostly with realistic E2E max throughput not exceeding 25 mbps,
Some Home automation firms push fiber optic cabling in home as a means to carry 4K and 3D or higher video resolutions, but the cat6 infra is more than sufficient to handle that too.
So its a nice science project to run fiber to each device and play around, but that's what it really is. No practical use.
- Suman Kumar Luthra @ APRC-P3 Telecom Sub-Committtee
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