Title :
European PON deployments: A carrier view of the technical, regulatory, and economic challenges
Author_Institution :
Telecom Italia S.p.A., Italy
Abstract :
The deployment of PON systems in Europe is currently slowed down, mainly due to technical and regulatory aspects. We provide an overview on how these challenges can be faced, based on the evaluations and trials carried out in Telecom Italia.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; European PON deployments; Telecom Italia; Copper; Economics; Europe; Multiaccess communication; Passive optical networks; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunications;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621277
