Fibre loop architectures: a comparative evaluation

Author

Farina, Alberto ; Rosi, Riccardo ; Trondoli, Alberto

Author_Institution

Sirti SpA, Milano, Italy

fYear

1992

Firstpage

1748

Abstract

Several optical fiber system architectures for use in residential and business local loops are compared in terms of their economic and technical benefits. The architectures include fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) double star configuration, fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) tree configuration, FTTB fiber-to-the-office (FTTO) star configuration, and FTTB/FTTO ring/star configuration. It is concluded that a copper access network is more cost effective for narrowband services, although fiber-based solutions allow an easier evaluation toward broadband services

Keywords

B-ISDN; ISDN; optical links; subscriber loops; FTTB tree configuration; FTTB/FTTO ring/star configuration; FTTC double star configuration; ISDN; POTS; broadband services; business local loops; economic benefits; fiber-to-the-building; fiber-to-the-curb; fiber-to-the-office; fibre loop architectures; narrowband services; residential local loops; technical benefits; Companies; Computer aided manufacturing; Copper; High speed optical techniques; Narrowband; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical saturation; Quality of service; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1992. ICC '92, Conference record, SUPERCOMM/ICC '92, Discovering a New World of Communications., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0599-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1992.267971

Filename

267971