Heathrow-experience and evolution

Author

Bourne, John ; Balmes, Mark ; Justice, Jim

Author_Institution

Bell Northern Res., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

1990

fDate

16-19 Apr 1990

Firstpage

27

Abstract

Through the installation of fiber to residential customers in the community of Heathrow, Florida, Southern Bell, Northern Telecom, and BNR are working to evolve fiber loop technology for large-scale deployment. The system at Heathrow delivers POTS (plain old telephone system), ISDN (integrated services digital network), and video transport for CATV (cable television). POTS was cut into service in June 1988, followed by ISDN in November 1988, and video in June 1989. It is noted that the design and operation of the system have influenced not only the technology and architecture of future systems but also provisioning methods, splicing techniques, and installation of the fiber-optic-network interface at the customer´s premises

Keywords

ISDN; community antenna television; optical fibres; optical links; BNR; CATV; Heathrow; ISDN; Northern Telecom; POTS; Southern Bell; fiber loop technology; fiber-optic-network interface; large-scale deployment; provisioning methods; residential customers; splicing techniques; video transport; Bandwidth; Central office; Control systems; Copper; Costs; ISDN; Optical design; Optical switches; Telecommunication switching; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1990. ICC '90, Including Supercomm Technical Sessions. SUPERCOMM/ICC '90. Conference Record., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1990.117025

Filename

117025