Broadband Optical Access, FTTH, and Home Networks-the Broadband Future

Broadband Optical Access Networks and Fiber-to-the-Home: Systems Technologies and Deployment Strategies

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 267-297

  Lin, Chinlon ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Broadband FTTH drivers, triple play, competition and IPTV; Broadband optical access; Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM); Erbium doped optical fiber amplifier (EDFA) technologies; Fiber to the Home (FTTH) and home networks; GIGA homes; Hong Kong broadband competition; Japanese Blog advertisement; WDM PON access network and bus distribution architecture; Worldwide broadband competitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889497395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/047009480X.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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