Preliminary reliability considerations for fiber optic telecommunications systems to the home

Explores some of the reliability issues that arise with the introduction of fiber optics to the home. Preliminary baseline reliability performance is established by considering service availability needs, existing equipment requirements, and current loop reliability performance. Application of the baseline reliability performance criteria to emerging architectures gives an indication of the required values for various equipment reliability parameters such as the hardware contribution to line downtime and the simplex equipment line failure rate. Outage characteristics of the optical network interface due to commercial AC power failures at or near a customer´s premises are also discussed