Fiber-to-the-home in a competitive era

Author

Ransom, M.N.

Author_Institution

Adv. Technol. Systs. Eng. Center, Sci. & Technol., BellSouth

fYear

1997

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

27

Abstract

A belief that fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) will be the best long-term access network solution for providing telecommunications and video entertainment services led to trials in the 1980s of FTTH such as BellSouth´s Hunter´s Creek trial in 1986 and Heathrow trial in 1989. Although many technical issues were uncovered and resolved as a result of these trials, the industry concluded that cost parity of FTTH with copper solutions was not achievable in the planning horizon. This led to subsequent efforts towards achieving greater sharing or the optical interface such as hybrid fiber coax and fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC), both of which are being deployed in commercial networks today

Keywords

optical fibre subscriber loops; BellSouth´s Hunter´s Creek trial; FTTH; Heathrow trial; commercial networks; copper solutions; cost parity; fiber-to-the-curb; fiber-to-the-home; hybrid fiber coax; long-term access network solution; optical interface sharing; planning horizon; technical issues; video entertainment services; Costs; High speed optical techniques; Multimedia systems; Narrowband; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Optical network units; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719657

Filename

719657