With the extraordinary increase of bandwidth requirement nowadays, service providers are compelled to push fiber deeper into the access networks in order to be able to offer the emerging services that customers are demanding. Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks have always been the ultimate solution to a future broadband access network. In recent years, several technological developments have brightened the outlook on FTTH. The paper highlights these changes, and presents architectures that may be successfully deployed in the near future. The author estimates the value of FTTH and the foreground of its application and development in the world market.