Providing broadband access to extremely sparse areas

Abstract

The telecom arena has become very competitive in dense urban areas where the number of potential customers as well as the requirement of high bandwidth are very important. Sparse areas, on the contrary, are left outside the broadband roll out due to the scarce expected revenues and high predicted investments. This work aims at comparing different architectures combining different technologies from different aspects such as investments, power consumption and delivered bandwidth. A particular case study of a sparse area in Finland is analyzed in detail.

Evaluation of FTTx Access Network Migration for IPTV Services

“…There are various works in the literature that investigates migration options for operators [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14]. In [6], a cost-revenue modelling is presented for dynamic migration strategy of Fiber-to-the-X (FTTx) for FNOs.…”

“…The suitable characteristics of access lines for various DSL types are explained in [9]. In [10], a study to compare different FTTx architectures in terms of investments, power consumption and delivered bandwidth is presented. In another study, the migration strategy of integrated fixed FTTX and mobile networks is evaluated [14].…”