Telephony online has published a 2007 FTTH Con article on opportunities for startups:

In general, start-ups can attract attention by promising to cut the in-home costs of fiber deployment. Though discussions of fiber-to-the-x costs typically focus on getting fiber to the side of the home, in-home costs can add more than $500 per home to that equation, Jones said. Start-ups that can ease those expenses, through home networking, storage consolidation and consumer electronics such as set-top boxes, will have investors’ ears.