Title :
TPON-a passive optical network for telephony
Author :
Stern, J.R. ; Hoppitt, C.E. ; Payne, D.B. ; Reeve, M.H. ; Oakley, K.
Author_Institution :
British Telecom Res. Labs., Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
A passive optical local access network for telephony applications is proposed which can be evolved to the future broadband ISDN. A laboratory demonstrator is described which can deliver a 144kbit/s ISDN channel, or equivalent, to 128 customers from a single fibre exchange feed
Keywords :
ISDN; broadband networks; optical links; telephone networks; 144 Kbit/s; TPON; broadband ISDN; laboratory demonstrator; optical local access network; passive optical network; single fibre exchange feed; telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1988. (ECOC 88). Fourteenth European Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.292)
Conference_Location :
Brighton
