Techno-economic comparison of optical access networks

Author

Sananes, Raúl ; Bock, Carlos ; Prat, Josep

Author_Institution

Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

3-7 July 2005

Firstpage

201

Abstract

A techno-economic comparison of five different optical access network (OAN) architectures is presented. We consider several novel techniques that we have presented and demonstrated in previous works, offering more efficient fiber use than point-to-point (P2P) networks as well as power splitting passive optical networks (PS-PON). A total cost and cost-per-bandwidth value for the each architecture is calculated in order to have a fair comparison between them. Both CWDM and DWDM combined with bidirectional reflective optical network units (ONU) have been demonstrated to decrease the CAPEX of the network.

Keywords

optical fibre subscriber loops; wavelength division multiplexing; CWDM; DWDM; bidirectional reflective optical network units; optical access network architectures; point-to-point network; power splitting passive optical networks; techno-economic comparison; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Costs; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber testing; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2005, Proceedings of 2005 7th International Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9236-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2005.1506133

Filename

1506133