Meeting the Traffic Requirements of Residential Users in the Next Decade with Current FTTH Standards: How Much? How Long?

José Alberto Hernández; Rafael María Martínez Sánchez; Ignacio Martin; David Larrabeiti

doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/mcom.2018.1800173

doi.org/10.1109/mcom.2018.1800173

Meeting the Traffic Requirements of Residential Users in the Next Decade with Current FTTH Standards: How Much? How Long?

José Alberto Hernández

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Rafael María Martínez Sánchez

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..., David Larrabeiti

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IEEE Communications Magazine11.20

Volume: 57, Issue: 6, Pages: 120 - 125

Published: Jun 1, 2019

Abstract

Traffic demand in access networks has grown in recent years, and service providers need to upgrade their infrastructure to the latest access standards. While fiber has become the preferred technology of choice in access networks, there are many fibre access technologies available in the market. This poses challenging questions to operators that are not always easy to answer: How to upgrade? What technology and for how long wil it cope with the...