Verizon's FiOS to provide home security

(October 21, 2009)

It was the light seen up and down the East Coast when Verizon announced five years ago this week that it was deploying its revolutionary all-fiber-optic FiOS network in FALLS CHURCH, VA and in five other Eastern states, transforming how people access the Internet and TV entertainment.

FiOS has had a huge impact on the residents of those six Eastern states - New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware - as well as other states where FiOS was deployed later in 2004. Even more important, it has transformed an entire industry.

Verizon will further enrich FiOS over the coming months so that it becomes a control hub for much more than home information and entertainment. Verizon will leverage the dynamic home network built for every FiOS customer, adding such household systems as security, heating and air conditioning and various consumer electronics.

The network architecture of FiOS makes possible on-screen TV widgets as well as applications for home security and energy management unparalleled in the industry, along with access to content stored anywhere in the home.

Read the whole press release at Verizon's site.