Title :
Are converged access networks suitable in rural areas?
Author :
Munoz Diaz, Ana ; Mas Machuca, Carmen
Author_Institution :
Univ. Politec. de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
Rural areas are the last regions aiming at getting access to broadband services due to the high investments and limited revenues. However, new architectures such as Hybrid Passive Optical Network (HPON) allow interconnecting fixed users and Base Stations with the same infrastructure. This paper looks into the advantages of the HPON joint planning with respect to an independent planning of mobile backhaul and fixed users. The recently proposed HPON architecture could offer more bandwidth to the base stations (10Gbps) and less bandwidth to residential users (300 - 500 Mbps). The results show the cost reduction of supporting joint planning in two real rural areas and analyze the impact of the number of base stations and their inter BS distance (i.e. different cell sizes) on the savings.
Keywords :
broadband networks; mobile radio; optical fibre subscriber loops; passive optical networks; telecommunication network planning; HPON joint planning; base station; broadband service; converged access network; cost reduction; hybrid passive optical network architecture; mobile backhaul planning; rural area; Base stations; Buildings; Computer architecture; Joints; Optical fibers; Passive optical networks; Planning; NGOA; PON; broadband access; convergence; rural areas;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Budapest
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193629
