Title :
FTTx: Current Status and the Future
fDate :
7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
By the end of 2007, there were 29 million subscribers to services supplied by FTTx equipment, and by 2012, it is expected the number will grow to over 100 million subscribers. In this paper, we review the current status of FTTx and analyze what is taking place in different regions of the world. We view the future for FTTx in terms of growth and the types of FTTx products we might see.
Keywords :
multimedia communication; optical communication; wavelength division multiplexing; Internet Protocol television; advanced multimedia services; corporate broadband; fiber to the x infrastructures; high definition television; ultra-high-bit-rate Internet access; video on demand; wavelength division multiplexing technology; Cable TV; Councils; Europe; FCC; Marketing and sales; North America; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Passive optical networks; Telecommunications; FTTx; Fiber-to-the-x networks;
Journal_Title :
Communications Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCOM.2008.4557048
