Title :
Paving the Optical Future with Affordable Lightning-Fast Links
Author :
Abrate, Silvio ; Gaudino, Roberto
Author_Institution :
Ist. Superiore Mario Boella, Turin
Abstract :
The POF-ALL project ("Paving the Optical Future with Affordable Lightning-fast Links") shall develop a technology to allow delivery of 100+Mbit/s symmetrically to residential users at costs far lower than existing alternatives, thanks to the use of Plastic Optical Fiber (POF). The solution will be targeted at the edge network which, due to its capillarity, is the most expensive part of the access network; and it will be tailored to large residential buildings, which are most common in European cities. In this paper we will describe in detail the consortium composition, the different tasks to be accomplished and the preliminary results obtained during the first year of the project.
Keywords :
optical fibre subscriber loops; European cities; access network; lightning-fast links; plastic optical fiber; residential buildings; Acceleration; Costs; Educational institutions; Glass; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Plastics; Telecommunications; Access networks; FTTH; Optical communications; Polymer fibers;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1249-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-1249-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296103
