Viability of in-service, low-cost and spatially unambiguous OTDR monitoring in TDM-and WDM-PON access networks

ICTON 2009: 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Costa, L ^a   Lazaro J A ^b   Polo V ^b   Teixeira, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Next generation access networks; Optical time domain reflectometry

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; NEW STRATEGY; NEXT GENERATION ACCESS NETWORKS; OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; PHYSICAL LAYERS; THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE; WDM-PON;

OPTICAL MATERIALS; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS;

EID: 70449440557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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