Lin Broadband Optical Access Networks and Fiber-to-the-Home

Systems Technologies and Deployment Strategies
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-09479-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 334 Seiten, E-Book

Broadband Optical Access and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) willprovide the ultimate broadband service capabilities.
Compared with the currently well-deployed broadband accesstechnologies of ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) and CableModems, optical broadband access with Fiber-to-the-User'shome will cater for much higher speed access for new services.
Broadband Optical Access Networks and Fiber-to-the-Homepresents a comprehensive technical overview of key technologies anddeployment strategies for optical broadband access networks andemerging new broadband services. The authors discuss networkdesign considerations, new services, deployment trends andoperational experiences, while explaining the current situation andproviding insights into future broadband access technologies andservices.
Broadband Optical Access Networks andFiber-to-the-Home:
* Offers a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to newdevelopments in broadband access network technologies andservices.
* Examines the impact of research and development in photonicstechnologies on broadband access and FTTH.
* Covers ADSL, VDSL with FTTC (Fiber-to-the-Curb), Cable Modemover HFC (Hybrid-Fiber Coax) and Gigabit Ethernet.
* Discusses the roles of Broadband Wireless LAN and integratedFTTH/Wireless Broadband Access as well as Broadband HomeNetworks.
* Provides a global view of broadband network development,presenting different technical and system deployment approaches andstrategic considerations for comparison.
* Gives insight into the worldwide broadband competition and thefuture of this technology.
Broadband Optical Access Networks and Fiber-to-the-Homewill be an invaluable resource for engineers in research anddevelopment, network planners, business managers, consultants aswell as analysts and educators for a better understanding of thefuture of broadband in the field of telecommunications, datacommunications, and broadband multimedia service industries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lin, Chinlon

Über Autor(innen)

Chinlon Lin,Professor of Photonics and Director, Center forAdvanced Research in Photonics, Institute of Optical Science andTechnology, Departments of Electronic Engineering and InformationEngineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Chinlon Lin received his Ph.D. from the Univ. of California,Berkeley. He joined AT&T Bell Labs' Laser SciencesResearch Department, Communication Sciences Research Division,researchin nonlinear optics in fibers, self-phase-modulation,tunable infrared fiber Raman lasers, fiber Raman amplifiers andfour-wave-mixing for optical-frequency-conversion, as well ashigh-speed semiconductor laser dynamic modulation studies andhigh-bit-rate fiber transmission system technologies. In 1984 hewas on leave from Bell Labs as a Visiting Guest Professor at theTech. Univ. of Denmark's Center for Broadband Communications(now COM Center).
He joined Bellcore in 1986 where he was Director of BroadbandLightwave systems Research. He led a group working on FTTH, FTTC,HFC architectures, DWDM tunable filters and EDFAs for high-capacitydigital and analog video systems, dispersion compensation forhigh-speed DWDM systems, an experimental Bellcore Research Network,lightwave systems for multi-channel hybrid AM/QAM-digital videodistribution for HFC networks, and Hybrid DWDM systems. He alsoprovided technical consultation to Ameritech, Bell Atlantic,BellSouth and SBC Comm. on issues related to EDFA, DWDM and OC-192systems, and analog/digital lightwave video distribution systemsfor FTTH/FTTC/HFC networks. He joined Tyco Submarine Sys. R & DLabs (formerly AT&T Submarine Systems) in September 1997, towork on lightwave technologies for DWDM systems in advancednext-generation global long-haul undersea fiber networks.
In May 2000 he founded Jedai Broadband Networks, a startup to workon Fiber-to-the Business high-speed access solutions for cable TVindustry. He was Chairman, President and CTO. In 2002 he co-foundedBeLight, a startup on GbE based optical wireless system andbroadband FTTH optical access. He joined CUHK as Professor ofPhotonics and Director of IOSAT (Institute of Optical Science andTechnology) in January 2003.