As access devices

Written on 3:50 PM by ooe

As has been said many times, optical fibre in the access network would create the ultimate access network, although controlling the costs of implementing such architectures is key. PON technology has been shown to reduce the costs of access fibre network rollout for two reasons:

• It allows a reduction in the number of fibres back to the exchange giving better duct utilisation and shared head-end (OLT) costs.

• It inherently concentrates the traffic onto fewer data streams hence reducing the cost of metro equipment.

Given the increase in speed of computing devices, and the proliferation of the Internet, it is to be expected that the market for high-speed connections will continue to grow and will become ever more resource hungry, both in terms of bandwidth connectivity and service support. In this market it is to be expected that optical technology will outstrip other access network technologies to become the technology of choice.