• DocumentCode
    2845064
  • Title

    A quantitative techno-economic comparison of current and next generation metro/access converged optical networks

  • Author

    Chatzi, Sotiria ; Lazaro, Jose A. ; Prat, Josep ; Tomkos, Ioannis

  • Author_Institution
    Athens Inf. Technol., Athens, Greece
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A techno-economic comparison for the outside plant (OSP) and the active equipment of three access-metro networks, a) EP2P, b) GPON and c) a hybrid WDM/TDM based converged access-metro solution, shows the actual expected cost benefit of the third solution.
  • Keywords
    metropolitan area networks; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; EP2P; GPON; access-metro networks; active equipment; hybrid WDM/TDM based converged access-metro solution; next generation metro/access converged optical networks; outside plant; quantitative technoeconomic comparison; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber devices; Passive optical networks; Power cables;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621262
  • Filename
    5621262