The huge successes during the last decade of the Web and digital video (first as DVDs, then
as satellite and cable entertainment, now as video recording, HDTV, and flat-panel displays)
have changed people’s habits and their demands for service delivery.
Consequently,consumer adoption of broadband access to facilitate use of the Internet for knowledge,
commerce, and entertainment is following these same patterns, outpacing the ability of
some technologies to keep up. A growing number of service providers – old and new – are
turning to solutions capable of exploiting the full potential of optical fiber for service
delivery: ‘FTTH: fiber to the home.’ In the laboratory for 30 years, and successfully meeting
the technical objectives of worldwide field trials throughout the 1980s, FTTH was nevertheless
stymied by high costs. In recent years, however, costs have fallen as service demand
rose dramatically so that FTTH has become cost-effective in more and more situations.
The ongoing pressures to reduce costs of integrated circuits and other technologies for massmarket
products, especially PCs, Ethernet data networking, and digital video, combined with
similar progress in electro-optics and fiber have all contributed to driving down the cost of
FTTH. Ongoing operational cost savings from moving fiber to the very edges of the network
are better understood and also improve the business case. In light of the rising consumer
demand for so-called ‘triple-play’ services (digital video, broadband Internet access, and
fully featured voice services including Internet delivery), the time is right to understand what
the new FTTH systems and strategies offer.
This book you are about to read addresses the need. Chinlon Lin and two dozen eminent
authors, representing the spectrum from developers and manufacturers to network and service
providers, treat the systems aspects of FTTH comprehensively. This includes passive optical
networks, standardization of PONs which has accelerated product availability and deployment,
the ongoing evolution to deliver a Gigabit per second Ethernet, and the growing trend to
migrate to dense wavelength-division multiplexing. Business and operational issues, trends,
and evolution strategies are also discussed.
In organizing this book, Chinlon Lin has brought with him his broad perspective.
Having a career path at Bell Labs, Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies),
and Jedai Broadband, he worked intimately with the R and D of the underlying
optical technologies and architectures, as well as some of the deployment strategies. His past
interactions ranged from telecommunications companies to broadband cable service providers.
In the chapters of this book, recognized experts provide international perspectives along these
lines for the reader to develop their own knowledge base and business perspective of FTTH
access networks, including even the popular use of wireless once the premises are reached.
I know you will find this book timely, offering accurate and authoritative information for
those interested in the topics of broadband optical access and Fiber to the Home. Enjoy it!
as satellite and cable entertainment, now as video recording, HDTV, and flat-panel displays)
have changed people’s habits and their demands for service delivery.
Consequently,consumer adoption of broadband access to facilitate use of the Internet for knowledge,
commerce, and entertainment is following these same patterns, outpacing the ability of
some technologies to keep up. A growing number of service providers – old and new – are
turning to solutions capable of exploiting the full potential of optical fiber for service
delivery: ‘FTTH: fiber to the home.’ In the laboratory for 30 years, and successfully meeting
the technical objectives of worldwide field trials throughout the 1980s, FTTH was nevertheless
stymied by high costs. In recent years, however, costs have fallen as service demand
rose dramatically so that FTTH has become cost-effective in more and more situations.
The ongoing pressures to reduce costs of integrated circuits and other technologies for massmarket
products, especially PCs, Ethernet data networking, and digital video, combined with
similar progress in electro-optics and fiber have all contributed to driving down the cost of
FTTH. Ongoing operational cost savings from moving fiber to the very edges of the network
are better understood and also improve the business case. In light of the rising consumer
demand for so-called ‘triple-play’ services (digital video, broadband Internet access, and
fully featured voice services including Internet delivery), the time is right to understand what
the new FTTH systems and strategies offer.
This book you are about to read addresses the need. Chinlon Lin and two dozen eminent
authors, representing the spectrum from developers and manufacturers to network and service
providers, treat the systems aspects of FTTH comprehensively. This includes passive optical
networks, standardization of PONs which has accelerated product availability and deployment,
the ongoing evolution to deliver a Gigabit per second Ethernet, and the growing trend to
migrate to dense wavelength-division multiplexing. Business and operational issues, trends,
and evolution strategies are also discussed.
In organizing this book, Chinlon Lin has brought with him his broad perspective.
Having a career path at Bell Labs, Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies),
and Jedai Broadband, he worked intimately with the R and D of the underlying
optical technologies and architectures, as well as some of the deployment strategies. His past
interactions ranged from telecommunications companies to broadband cable service providers.
In the chapters of this book, recognized experts provide international perspectives along these
lines for the reader to develop their own knowledge base and business perspective of FTTH
access networks, including even the popular use of wireless once the premises are reached.
I know you will find this book timely, offering accurate and authoritative information for
those interested in the topics of broadband optical access and Fiber to the Home. Enjoy it!
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