Economic Analysis of Broadband Access for Australian Rural and Remote Areas

Author

Ellershaw, J.C. ; Riding, J.L. ; Tran, A.V. ; Guan, L.J. ; Smith, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We model and compare the deployment costs of three broadband access technologies, namely digital subscriber loops (DSL), passive optical networks (PON), and WiMAX wireless access, in Australian rural and remote areas. The analysis shows that wireless technologies are cheapest for a 20 Mbit/s rate when the number of homes per square kilometer is less than one. For 50+ Mbit/s, passive optical networks are the most economic.

Keywords

WiMax; digital subscriber lines; optical fibre subscriber loops; Australian rural areas; WiMAX wireless access; broadband access technologies; digital subscriber loops; economic passive optical networks; remote areas; wireless technologies; Australia; Bit rate; Central office; Copper; Costs; DSL; Optical fibers; Passive optical networks; Peer to peer computing; Spine; Access network; DSL; PON; cost comparison; fiber to the node; rural telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, 2008. ATNAC 2008. Australasian

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2602-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2603-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATNAC.2008.4783285

Filename

4783285