Title :
Digital cities and open MANs: A new communications paradigm
Author :
Mendes, Leonardo S. ; Bottoli, Maurício L. ; Breda, Gean D.
Abstract :
Digital cities can be defined as a highly interactive digital communication environment built to mimic the behavior of real cities. Open access metropolitan area networks (open MANs) are communication networks built to allow universal access of city´s population to a single digital multimedia communication network. The goal of this paper is to discuss the impact in the community when delivering digital cities solutions upon the universal access scenario of the open MANs. We also present results obtained of deployment of such solutions in some Brazilian cities and the perspectives for this project in Brazil in the coming years.
Keywords :
interactive systems; metropolitan area networks; multimedia communication; digital cities; digital multimedia communication network; interactive digital communication environment; open MAN; open access metropolitan area network; real cities; universal access; Cities and towns; Communication networks; Data communication; Digital communication; Ethernet networks; High speed optical techniques; IP networks; Metropolitan area networks; Optical fiber networks; TCPIP; Convergent Networks; Digital Cities; Multimedia networks; Open Access Metropolitan Networks; Universal Access Networks;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2009. LATINCOM '09. IEEE Latin-American Conference on
Conference_Location :
Medellin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4387-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4388-8
DOI :
10.1109/LATINCOM.2009.5304974
