• 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