Although near-term benefits are driving both telephone companies and cable operators to
deliver residential services over optical fiber, in the longer term fiber enables new …

BellSouth's Superhome/Superoffice fiber optic concept is the focus of this discussion of
evolving communication needs and services. Existing and planned optical fiber deployment …

Broadband services are examined from both residential-and business-user aspects, and
trends and needs in both areas are identified. The rapid progress in broadband standards …

The current status of fiber in the subscriber loop in the US is reviewed. Efforts to promote a
standardized approach are briefly examined. Issues involved in powering the distributed …

In July 1989, Southern Bell began deploying a fiber access system capable of carrying 54
cable television (CATV) channels, as well as plain old telephone service (POTS) and …

The vision of an all-fiber telecommunications network delivering an ever increasing variety
of services to both business and residential customers has been the subject of much …

Southern Bell has begun a quest for the most economical method to serve the high-growth
information market's wide spectrum of services via an all-fiber network. Under current pursuit …

The study by Southern Bell Telephone Co. demonstrates that fiber-to-the-home is cost-
effective where high-density growth patterns are foreseen. It supports fiber provisioning in …

Publisher Summary This chapter tracks the history of broadband access, compares the
competing access technologies, and projects the roadmap to future deployment in the …

The replacement of the standard series-connected pair of twisted copper wires that connects
each home to the telephone network today by optical-fiber cabling that can handle …