Init7! an independent internet service provider bas in Winterthur and known for its fight against Swisscom! recently launch a FTTH ( Fiber To The Home) availability map for Switzerland. This visualization! accessible via the operator’s website! represents the daily progress of the fiber optic deployment in the country.Swisscom advantages
This Init7 FTTH map covers the whole of Switzerland and shows! in addition to the 402!000 currently marketable addresses with around 2 million connections! around 191!000 addresses that will be market in the future (situation as of 20 December 2023). It also shows all active (in r) and plann (in turquoise) Init7 Points of Presence.
Swisscom regularizes its connections
Around three quarters of all FTTH connections can benefit from Init7’s Fiber7 and Easy7 services. The remaining connections can be serv by Hybrid7! bas on Swisscom’s wholesale service. Thanks to employment database the rapid expansion of Init7’s points of presence! Fiber7 coverage continues to expand. “In addition! illegal P2MP (Point to Multipoint) connections are gradually being legaliz by converting to the P2P (Point to Point) network topology!” according to a press release referring to Swisscom’s work.
The difference between P2MP and P2P lies in the use of optical fiber. In a P2MP network structure! several clients share the optical fiber on the first section of the route. Only at an optical distributor does the distribution of signals to the different client connections take place. This has an effect on the bandwidth; the more clients share a connection! the lower the bandwidth for the individual client.
Init7’s fight against Swisscom
Init7 has been active on the national and international unlimit calls and texts in switzerland market for private and business customers for over 23 years. The company has the ambition to operate the infrastructure in-house as much as possible! because this is the only way to meet its quality requirements. Between 2018 and 2023! Init7 won the covet Bilanz Telekom Rating six times in a row in the category “Best Internet Provider for Private Customers”.Swisscom advantages
Init7 was the initiator of a complaint against Swisscom atb directory to the Competition Commission (COMCO)! opposing what was sometimes present as a new Swisscom monopoly Fiber: the rebel Init on optical fiber (P2MP vs P2P case: our report) . In 2014! Init7 launch the first affordable 1 Gbit/s internet subscription for all! which l to a massive drop in gigabit internet prices! according to him.
