Abstract:
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New services like Video on demand/Internet Protocol
Television, Voice over IP and high speed Internet access demand
very high bandwidth to provide Triple Play services to the
customers. The ADSL/ADLS2+ and the VDSL/VDSL2 copper-
wire technologies deteriorate quickly with the distance and will
be soon obsolete for supporting the ultra-high bandwidth
requirements of the next future. One suitable long term solution
for such a high bandwidth demand
is employing optical fibers to
customers premises (FTTH). In particular, two optical
distribution network architectu
res, GPON (gigabit passive
optical network) and EP2P (E
thernet point-to-point), are
competing for the network access segment. This paper surveys
the two technologies and evalua
tes them from a quantitative
techno-economic point of view, tr
ying to identify which market
scenarios are best served by EP2P and which are best served by
GPON architectures for supporting the requirement of Triple
Play applications
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