DocumentCode
2051294
Title
Fiber to the home: A carrier perspective
Author
Shukla, Vishnu
Author_Institution
Verizon, NY
fYear
2008
fDate
21-25 Sept. 2008
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
Service providers are experiencing growing demand for access bandwidth as standard definition broadcasting continues to evolve to high definition, more people are on line at once and Internet becomes the preferred delivery mechanism for entertainment and full multimedia experience. Network architecture and technologies that provide long term solutions to this growing bandwidth needs will be discussed.
Keywords
Internet; bandwidth allocation; broadcasting; multimedia communication; optical fibre communication; Internet; access bandwidth; delivery mechanism; entertainment; multimedia experience; network architecture; service providers; standard definition broadcasting; Bandwidth; Costs; Demand forecasting; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Economic forecasting; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Passive optical networks; Robustness; Web and internet services;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location
Brussels
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2228-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729109
Filename
4729109
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