Title :
Fiber to the home: a carrier perspective
Author_Institution :
Verizon, 117 West Street, Waltham, MA, USA
Abstract :
Service providers are experiencing growing demand for access bandwidth as standard definition broadcasting continues to evolve to high definition, more people are on line at any given time, and Internet becomes the preferred delivery mechanism for entertainment and full multimedia experience. Network architecture and technologies that provide long term solutions to this growing bandwidth needs are discussed.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Costs; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Video sharing; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels, Belgium
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729196
