DocumentCode
2053613
Title
Fiber to the home: a carrier perspective
Author
Shukla, Vishnu
Author_Institution
Verizon, 117 West Street, Waltham, MA, USA
fYear
2008
fDate
21-25 Sept. 2008
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
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 any given time, 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 are discussed.
Keywords
Bandwidth; Costs; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Video sharing; Web and internet services;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location
Brussels, Belgium
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2228-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729196
Filename
4729196
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