Hybridization readiness for multiservice broadband networks

Increasing variety of telecommunication and data communication services is driving the transmission volume increase in multiservice broadband networks (both optical and cellular wireless) at an exponential rate. Present optical networks, from the very day of their first run, are unceasingly subjected to a rapidly evolving demand to cater for the explosive multiservice broadband usage environment. Add to it the ever-increasing penetration of these networks right to the palm of the user and we have a multidimensional problem at our hands: future-proofing of optical and cellular wireless networks, together. We have investigated various dimensions of this uniquely engaging problem and have quantized the factors to be accounted for while conceiving, dimensioning, planning and implementing the two distinct dimensions of the evolutionary problem: hybridization of optical network architecture and cross-coupling of the services provided by these networks.