Fiber access-how many solutions, how many players?

Author

Shumate, Paul W.

Author_Institution

Bellcore, Morristown, NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1994

Firstpage

371

Abstract

Telephone local-exchange carriers and cable television operators are each installing fiber close to residential customers to improve their service quality and operations. Telephone carriers have tested “fiber to the home” (FTTH) access networks, but are currently installing either “fiber to the curb”" (FTTC) or “fiber to the serving area” (FSA). FTTC brings fiber to nodes of from 4 to 96 living units, with copper pair and coax delivering signals over the last few hundred feet beyond the fiber termination. Digital video transport is easily added to FTTC or FTTH, and analog transport can be added at nominal cost. Analog video transport is inherent to FSA, and digital video as well as two-way voice service is easily added using RF modems that modulate these services into conventional 6 MHz cable channels

Keywords

optical fibre subscriber loops; 6 MHz; RF modems; analog video transport; cable television operators; digital video transport; fiber access; fiber installation; fiber to the home access networks; fiber to the serving area; living units; operations; residential customers; service quality; telephone carriers; telephone local-exchange carriers; two-way voice service; Cable TV; Coaxial components; Copper; Costs; Modems; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Optical fiber testing; Radio frequency; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1994. LEOS '94 Conference Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1470-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1994.586621

Filename

586621