Title :
Broadband access technologies and operations
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., USA
fDate :
30 Jun-2 Jul 1998
Abstract :
Advances in switching, transport, and digital signal processing technologies are enabling public network providers to offer new broadband services to customers. The bottleneck, however, is the access network, which is still predominantly the 3-kHz loop plant designed to deliver plain old telephone service. This paper presents a high-level description of various broadband access technologies, describes a model to determine the access network operations costs, and applies it to compare two typical wireline and wireless access technologies
Keywords :
broadband networks; cable television; economics; hybrid fibre coax networks; radio access networks; subscriber loops; 3 kHz; ADSL; CATV operators; FTTC; broadband access operations; broadband access technologies; broadband services; digital signal processing; high-level description; hybrid fibre-coax; loop plant; maintenance; network management system; operations costs; plain old telephone service; public network providers; service provisioning; switching; transport technology; wireless access technology; wireline access technology; Cable TV; Central office; Coaxial cables; Costs; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber devices; Radio frequency; Service oriented architecture; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 1998. ISCC '98. Proceedings. Third IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8538-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.1998.702633
