Title :
Costs per Home Connected: The Impacts of Automated Fiber Management On Fiber-to-the-Home Deployments
Author :
Roskes, Sandy ; Shlomovits, Avigdor ; Teixeira, Jose ; Ganor, Ze´ev ; Finn, Joseph ; Nee-Ben Gee ; Lane, Michael ; Tiejun Xia ; Uliasz, William ; Wellbrock, Glenn
Author_Institution :
FiberZone Networks, Bethesda, MD, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate the economic impact of automated fiber management (AFM) in FTTH networks, specifically to defer capital costs and reduce operating costs by automating testing, provisioning, maintenance, troubleshooting, and grooming operations.
Keywords :
costing; home automation; optical fibre subscriber loops; telecommunication network management; automated fiber management; fiber-to-the-home networks; grooming operation; maintenance operation; operating costs; provisioning operation; testing operation; troubleshooting; Central office; Costs; Optical buffering; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Optical fiber testing; Power cables;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528279
