Fiber-To-The-Home White Paper
- Topics:
- Access Technologies
- Tags:
- Broadband Internet,
- EarthLink Inc.,
- Fiber Optics,
- Fiber-optics,
- FTTH,
- Network Technology,
- Networking,
- Optical Networking,
- Telecommunications
- Source:
- EarthLink
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Overview: For almost as long as fiber optic communications has been around, recurrent optimistic predictions have appeared to the effect that soon this communication medium would extend into user premises, both business and residential (FTTB and FTTH, respectively). This white paper reviews these events, technical, economic, regulatory and societal, and comes to a favorable conclusion about the prospects for a real turnaround within the next two to three years. In this discussion, we shall lump together homes and small businesses (those having less than, say, several hundred employees), since the access requirements for residences and businesses only diverge strongly for larger business, e.g. those that require some form of protection switching of their communication routes.
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Format: PDF | Size: 225KB | Date: Feb 2003 | Pages: 21
