Storm Internet's FTTH rollout under way in Clayton

CLAYTON, Ont. — Ottawa-based Storm Internet Services has begun connecting fibre-to-the-home customers in the Eastern Ontario village of Clayton, after completing the main underground lines of a new fibre broadband network. Storm’s fibre-line Internet service offers Clayton residents upload/download speeds of 500 Mbps symmetrically at the top level, ranging down to a 50/50 Mbps package whose performance still exceeds old copper DSL technology – which never existed in Clayton to begin with, says the news release. Undertaken without any government funding, the FTTH project was spearheaded by a local citizen’s group concerned over the lack of broadband in the Municipality...