1. The power of GIS in Implementation of FTTx Delivering Tangible COST BENEFITS in the Implementation and Ongoing Management of Next Generation FTTx Networks
9. What is the solution? GIS is a powerful solution to manage the FTTx infrastructure How to over come all the challenges with quick turnaround? Geographical Information System (GIS)
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As service providers look to boost revenues and offer new multimedia services, bandwidth availability and service quality becomes crucial. The need to deliver high-definition video, faster Internet services, and on-demand content combine to require high-speed fiber-based services. Standards-based GPON and Active Ethernet technologies have become the solutions choice for delivery of fully featured Triple Play networks. Historically, the requisite high construction and installation costs required to deploy FTTx have presented a significant barrier to its widespread adoption. Similarly, the time consuming and costly process to re-wire homes with Ethernet for IPTV have slowed deployment as well. Fiber is commonly looked to for new developments and greenfield applications, where the costs to deploy fiber are no greater than those to deploy new copper. However, increasingly carriers are beginning the migration of FTTx into existing neighborhoods to ensure the necessary bandwidth is available to deliver a competitive suite of services
Alexander Graham Bell patented an optical telephone system, which he called the Photophone, in 1880, but his earlier invention, the telephone, proved far more practical. He dreamed of sending signals through the air, but the atmosphere didn't transmit light as reliably as wires carried electricity. In the decades that followed, light was used for a few special applications, such as signalling between ships, but otherwise optical communications, like the experimental Photophone Bell donated to the Smithsonian Institution, languished on the shelf.
Where is the bulk of telephone cabling? It may not be where you think! Only 10% is in long distance networks, which were the first links converted to fiber - years ago. Another 10% is local loop (metropolitan) connecting central offices and switches - now mostly converted to fiber too. Fully 80% of all telco cabling is subscriber loop - the ≥last mile≤ that connects the end user to the system. After 20 years of fiber optic installations, virtually all long distance and local loop connections are already fiber. Only the ≥last mile≤ is still copper, and much of it is very old and incapable of carrying modern high bandwidth digital signals. Is FTTH just completing the system to make it all fiber?
Where is the bulk of telephone cabling? It may not be where you think! Only 10% is in long distance networks, which were the first links converted to fiber - years ago. Another 10% is local loop (metropolitan) connecting central offices and switches - now mostly converted to fiber too. Fully 80% of all telco cabling is subscriber loop - the ≥last mile≤ that connects the end user to the system. After 20 years of fiber optic installations, virtually all long distance and local loop connections are already fiber. Only the ≥last mile≤ is still copper, and much of it is very old and incapable of carrying modern high bandwidth digital signals. Is FTTH just completing the system to make it all fiber?
Where is the bulk of telephone cabling? It may not be where you think! Only 10% is in long distance networks, which were the first links converted to fiber - years ago. Another 10% is local loop (metropolitan) connecting central offices and switches - now mostly converted to fiber too. Fully 80% of all telco cabling is subscriber loop - the ≥last mile≤ that connects the end user to the system. After 20 years of fiber optic installations, virtually all long distance and local loop connections are already fiber. Only the ≥last mile≤ is still copper, and much of it is very old and incapable of carrying modern high bandwidth digital signals. Is FTTH just completing the system to make it all fiber?
(Field studies confirm that 25% - 40% of copper plant will not support demands of ADSL, ADSL2+ and VDSL- based services (Video and Data)
Where is the bulk of telephone cabling? It may not be where you think! Only 10% is in long distance networks, which were the first links converted to fiber - years ago. Another 10% is local loop (metropolitan) connecting central offices and switches - now mostly converted to fiber too. Fully 80% of all telco cabling is subscriber loop - the ≥last mile≤ that connects the end user to the system. After 20 years of fiber optic installations, virtually all long distance and local loop connections are already fiber. Only the ≥last mile≤ is still copper, and much of it is very old and incapable of carrying modern high bandwidth digital signals. Is FTTH just completing the system to make it all fiber?