FTTH - a promising broadband technology

Author

Rui, Luo ; Ti-Gang, Ning ; Tang-Jun, Li ; Li-Bo, Cai ; Feng, Qiu ; Jian Shui-sheng ; Jing-jing, Xu

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of all Opt. Network & Adv. Telecommun. Network, Beijing Jiaotong Univ., China

Volume

1

fYear

2005

Firstpage

609

Abstract

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.

Keywords

broadband networks; optical fibre subscriber loops; technological forecasting; FTTH networks; access networks; bandwidth requirement; broadband access network; fiber-to-the-home networks; market analysis; Costs; DSL; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Passive optical networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Circuits and Systems, 2005. Proceedings. 2005 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9015-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCAS.2005.1493482

Filename

1493482