Video Service Delivery Over a Repeater-Based Optical Access Network

Author

Nadarajah, Nishaanthan ; Chae, Chang Joon ; Tran, An Vu ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai

Author_Institution

Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne

Volume

19

Issue

20

fYear

2007

Firstpage

1637

Lastpage

1639

Abstract

A low-cost and bandwidth-efficient scheme for delivering video services to customers over a long reach, large split repeater-based optical access network is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Video channels that are on radio-frequency subcarriers are electrically combined with regenerated downstream data at the repeater and delivered to the customers on a single wavelength channel. Experimental results show that error-free transmission can be obtained for all channels with adequate power budget to support a split ratio more than 64.

Keywords

optical fibre subscriber loops; optical repeaters; video streaming; bandwidth efficient scheme; error free transmission; large split repeater; low cost scheme; optical access network; radiofrequency subcarriers; regenerated downstream data; video channels; video service delivery; Bandwidth; Cable TV; Coaxial cables; Costs; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Radio frequency; Repeaters; Satellite broadcasting; Optical access network; passive optical network (PON); repeater; subcarrier multiplexing (SCM); video services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.904933

Filename

4317647