Roughly 1.3 million--24.7 percent of the five million commercial buildings in the United States are lit with optical fiber, according to Vertical Systems Group. That is an improvement from the 11 percent of fiber-connected buildings in 2004, for example.
That suggests the large number of smaller locations where demand is not believed to support immediate fiber-to-location deployments.
As you would expect, the larger buildings have been wired. Buildings with 20 or more employees had fiber access at nearly 75 percent.
Buildings with fewer than 20 employees had a fiber access rate of about 16 percent.
Cable operators saw an opportunity there and have made a business out of supplying higher bandwidth to such locations using hybrid fiber coax access. Small business connections, in particular, were an early focus for cable operators, as some have estimated that 80 percent of small businesses did not require gigabit connections.
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