Digital cities and open MANs: A new communications paradigm

Author

Mendes, Leonardo S. ; Bottoli, Maurício L. ; Breda, Gean D.

fYear

2009

fDate

10-11 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Digital cities can be defined as a highly interactive digital communication environment built to mimic the behavior of real cities. Open access metropolitan area networks (open MANs) are communication networks built to allow universal access of city´s population to a single digital multimedia communication network. The goal of this paper is to discuss the impact in the community when delivering digital cities solutions upon the universal access scenario of the open MANs. We also present results obtained of deployment of such solutions in some Brazilian cities and the perspectives for this project in Brazil in the coming years.

Keywords

interactive systems; metropolitan area networks; multimedia communication; digital cities; digital multimedia communication network; interactive digital communication environment; open MAN; open access metropolitan area network; real cities; universal access; Cities and towns; Communication networks; Data communication; Digital communication; Ethernet networks; High speed optical techniques; IP networks; Metropolitan area networks; Optical fiber networks; TCPIP; Convergent Networks; Digital Cities; Multimedia networks; Open Access Metropolitan Networks; Universal Access Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2009. LATINCOM '09. IEEE Latin-American Conference on

Conference_Location

Medellin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4387-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4388-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LATINCOM.2009.5304974

Filename

5304974