Fiber has been envisioned for delivering broadband services to the residential customer for
over 30 years, yet it has only recently entered the mainstream. Currently, fiber-to-the-home …

Organized society depends on communication of all kinds, including the ability to
communicate at a distance, instantaneously. With the development of solid state electronics …

Broadband Last Mile: Access Technologies for Multimedia Communications provides in-
depth treatments of access technologies and the applications that rely upon them or support …

A thorough account on the basics of fiber optics system design is contained in this volume.
Introducing the topics from the vantage point of the student and professional electrical …

Optical networks can support the huge increasing of demands for high speed connections
suitable to the modern customer requirements in a high-reliable and cost-efficient manner. In …

Progress made in optical fiber transmission is reviewed, emphasizing the medium. The
subjects discussed include: low-loss fibers, optical fiber bandwidth, the physical strength of …

This paper describes power feed techniques for telephone subscribers in a metallic two-wire
digital subscriber loop system and optical fiber subscriber loop systems. In a metallic two …

Theatrical exhibition for motion pictures may soon be facing its greatest economic rivalry
since the advent of television. Today, theater owners are beginning to feel the effects of …

This thesis presents results obtained during the course of my doctoral studies into the
transport of fixed and wireless signaling over a converged otpical access infrastructure. In …

An experiment of wide-band switched interactive services (video services) is presented. The
experiment, named WISE (Wide-Band Interactive Services Experiment) is limited to a small …