Deployment of broadband infrastructure in the region of Western Greece

Abstract

This paper presents the work that is taking place in the Region of Western Greece in order to develop state-of-theart broadband infrastructure. The current status of broadband infrastructure in the region is being analyzed and the main principles on which the deployment of the networks will be based on is being described, by presenting the Metropolitan Area Networks and the Wireless access networks that will be developed. Two case studies of such municipal networks are also presented in this paper.Broadband infrastructure, fiber optics, municipal networks, wireless access netrwork

Exploiting metropolitan optical networks for high speed interconnections at schools

“…At the current situation the former public telecommunications provider (OTE) and alternative providers own the proper infrastructure in the major urban centers in Greece. However, the last years the Hellenic state has constructed a large number of Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) under the public control at 65 cities, excluding Athens and Thessaloniki [3].…”

“…In order to compensate the growing needs for broadband, high-speed and robust network access, the feasibility of Greek School Network's interconnection scheme is examined here, potentially exploiting the critical mass of metropolitan optical networks located to major urban areas of the Greek territory [3]. This paper is organized as follows: Section II introduces the Greek School Network (GSN).…”

An Architecture for Environmental Monitoring and Control in Municipal Scale

“…Discussions about design and metropolitan broadband access network implementation can be found in (Alexiou et al, 2005) and (Balhoff and Rowe, 2005). Case studies and successful deployment results of MBANs are presented in (Ford and Koutsky, 2005) and (Kramer et al, 2006).…”

A Framework for Planning a Unified Wired and Wireless ICT Infrastructure

“…Most noticeable is the ongoing effort by newcomers to deploy Fiber to the Home (FTTH), but WiMAX implementations in larger cities are also more and more often announced. A case study of broadband infrastructure in the region of Western Greece can be found in [3] where both wired and wireless solutions are discussed separately.…”