Title :
Evaluating the performance of an optical fibre-based rural telecommunication system
Author_Institution :
Siemens LTd., Pretoria, South Africa
Abstract :
In the optical fibre distributed concentrator (OFDC) the subscriber line interface is extended to the proximity of remotely located subscribers. This is achieved by extending the local speech and signalling bus of a conventional digital concentrator through a network of remote terminals. The remote terminals are interconnected in an optical fibre network in a single or double loop configuration. The OFDC was designed to present a transparent interface from the concentrator to these remote terminals. This paper discusses ways of measuring the performance of both the switching and the transmission sections of the OFDC
Keywords :
line concentrators; optical fibre subscriber loops; performance evaluation; telecommunication equipment testing; digital concentrator; loop configuration; optical fibre distributed concentrator; optical fibre network; performance evaluation; performance measurement; remote terminals network; rural telecommunication system; signalling bus; speech bus; subscriber line interface; switching; transmission; transparent interface; Central office; Communication switching; Optical fiber applications; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical interconnections; Optical network units; Speech; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Signal Processing, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE South African Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Jan Smuts Airport
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1292-9
DOI :
10.1109/COMSIG.1993.365847
