Title :
Fiber to the home: A carrier perspective
Author_Institution :
Verizon, NY
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729109
