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27 February 2025

Three reasons for a fibre optic internet connection

The future belongs to fibre optics. The data are transmitted by sending pulses of light through an optical fibre, making transmission extremely fast and efficient. In many countries the fibre optic roll-out is in full swing. What are the advantages of fibre and why should I go for a fibre optic connection? Here are three important reasons.

1) Fibre optics for maximum speed

From fast to super-fast: A fibre optic connection is available at many speed levels, from 100 Mbit/s for infrequent users, to a flat gigabit per second for families, all the way to an extremely fast 10 gigabits/s for that extra dose of high speed. But do I need it?

From streaming and the cloud to gaming: the need for bandwidth is increasing and increasing and increasing. Today's game downloads can be over 100 gigabytes, so you either need patience or a fast fibre optic connection.

Uploads with fibre optic are unrivaled when it comes to speed: Upload a video from your vacation or a photo album and share it with friends? Record and stream your gameplay? Or you just have a full day of video calls when you're working from home? With fibre, slow uploads and stuttering streams are a thing of the past. Benefit from the once inconceivable speed potential of a fibre optic connection.

2) Interference-free data transmission

Fast is good, no interference is better. Fibre optics is both good and better. Data are transmitted from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fibre, making transmission particularly robust against external influences such as electromagnetic interference. Even long-distance lines make little difference with fibre optics; it's always lightning fast and robust for an excellent internet connection.

3) Fibre, an investment with a future

Other technologies can also achieve one gigabit per second, but the technical limits are sometimes in sight. 

Fibre, on the other hand, is only at the beginning: A fibre optic connection is future-proof and built to last, because once the fibre optic cable has been laid, connections of up to 10 Gbit/s can be realized with AON, GPON or XGS-PON, and even faster standards can be retrofitted at a later date on the same fibre optic cable. This makes laying fibre optic cable a long-term investment.

Fibre with FRITZ!

What is the best fit for your fibre optic connection? A FRITZ!Box, of course, directly connected to the fibre optic outlet, not to the ONT.