HDWDM upgrade of CATV fibre-coax networks for broadband interactive services

Author

Koonen, A.M.J. ; Willems, F.W. ; van der Plaats, J.C. ; Muys, W. ; Verbeek, B.H. ; Lerminiaux, C. ; Prassas, M. ; Hempstead, M.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., Huizen, Netherlands

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

19-19 Sept. 1996

Firstpage

19

Abstract

To introduce broadband interactive services in a fibre-coax CATV network with high splitting ratio, a HDWDM upgrading strategy in combination with conventional TDMA (or SCMA) techniques is presented. It features flexible network reconfiguration via wavelength reassignment at the optical network units. Key system item is a novel cost-effective bi-directional erbium-doped fibre (/planar waveguide) amplifier handling simultaneously a high-grade analogue CATV downstream signal and multiwavelength interactive signals in a single fibre-coax network.

Keywords

broadband networks; cable television; fibre lasers; optical fibre subscriber loops; subcarrier multiplexing; time division multiple access; wavelength division multiplexing; CATV fibre-coax networks; HDWDM upgrade; SCMA; TDMA; broadband interactive services; cost-effective bi-directional erbium-doped fiber amplifier; flexible network reconfiguration; high splitting ratio; high-grade analogue CATV downstream signal; multiwavelength interactive signals; optical network units; single fibre-coax network; wavelength reassignment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on

Conference_Location

Oslo, Norway

Print_ISBN

82-423-0418-1

Type

conf

Filename

715611