Title :
EPON Deployment Challenges - Now and in the Future
Author_Institution :
Centillium Commun., Fremont, CA
Abstract :
Even as several Asian telcos role out EPON en mass, they and other telcos are grappling with a number of challenges that effect their present and future deployments. This paper identifies and examines these challenges.
Keywords :
optical fibre LAN; EPON deployment challenges; Ethernet passive optical networks; telcos; Costs; EPON; IPTV; Network neutrality; Optical buffering; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Tagging;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-831-4
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2007.4348488