Abstract

The last few years have seen increasing deployment of access technologies such as Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) and Fiber to the Node (FTTN) that enable the delivery of triple play (POTS, high speed Internet, and broadcast video/VOD) services to customers. The fiber access networks, requiring billions of dollars of investment, will need to provide decades of service and therefore must support technology evolution from BPON to GPON and beyond to meet the increasing bandwidth demands while simultaneously lowering the cost of providing services. The panel presentations will provide an overview of the current state of technology and the various options under consideration by industry and standards organizations to evolve the technology. Abstract only.

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