Research activities in photonic devices for BBA systems

Author

Hibino, Yoshinori

Author_Institution

NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi

fYear

2008

fDate

2-15 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

93

Lastpage

93

Abstract

The number of Internet users is increasing very rapidly, and data traffic is growing dramatically. A large and dramatic transition has occurred in relation to the information network. In Japan, a 100 Mbit/s class broadband service is now available through fiber to the home (FTTH) at the lowest price in the world and the number of FTTH users exceeded 12.1 million in March, 2008. Broadband traffic roughly doubles each year. This makes it necessary to reconstruct the NW to meet the requirement for a huge transmission capacity. We are changing the network from a legacy telephony network to a new network, which is a broadband network based on Internet Protocol (IP). The photonic technology is the key to create the broadband network system. This talk will describe the innovation of photonic device technologies.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; optical fibre networks; BBA systems; Internet Protocol; broadband traffic; data traffic; fiber to the home; information network; legacy telephony network; photonic devices; photonic technology; transmission capacity; Broadband communication; Internet; Laboratories; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Physics; Programmable control; Technological innovation; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop, 2008. i-NOW 2008. International

Conference_Location

Shonan Village

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2656-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INOW.2008.4634462

Filename

4634462