Fiber to the home-technology and architecture drives

Abstract

This paper presents a technology and architecture perspective for evolving today's copper access network optimized for POTS to a fiber access network providing both narrowband and broadband services.Architectures are assessed using application studies on actual routes in Bell Canada. Two architectures emerge as serious candidates (i.e., competitive with copper) for providing POTS service in 1992:the double star the star-bus. Tradeoffs between these architectures relating to POTS and broadband upgrade are discussed.

OEIC technology and its application to subscriber loops

“…The wide bandwidth could permit the future upgrading of transmission capacity, and the large power margin due to the smaller transmission loss could compensate for the losses at the passive distribution nodes which will be used in subscriber One candidate for the subscriber topology is a doublestar topology which utilizes active remotes as shown in Fig. 19 [48]. In the active remotes, multichannel OEIC transmitters and receivers could play an important role.…”

“…Double-star topology with active remotes[48]. Configuration of intelligent optical shuttle node (OSN)[49].…”