Title :
Overview of optical access technologies
Author_Institution :
GPT Ltd., Coventry, UK
Abstract :
This paper provides an overview of optical access technologies, starting with a brief look at communications domains where fibre has already achieved dominance, followed by a statement of access network requirements. The paper then overviews optical technologies that are important to the access network, using a Broadband Passive Optical Network architecture as an example
Keywords :
broadband networks; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical links; passive networks; broadband passive network architecture; communications domains; network requirements; optical access technologies; optical technologies;
Conference_Titel :
Optical and Hybrid Access Networks, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
Ipswich
DOI :
10.1049/ic:19960319
