DISCUS : end-to-end network design for ubiquitous high speed broadband services

Marco Ruffini; Nick Doran; Mohand Achouche; Nick Parsons; Thomas Pfeiffer; Xin Yin; Harald Rohde; Marco Schiano; Peter Ossieur; Barry O'Sullivan; Roland Wessäly; Lena Wosinska; Julio Montalvo; David B. Payne

doi:10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602948

DISCUS : end-to-end network design for ubiquitous high speed broadband services

Marco Ruffini, Nick Doran, Mohand Achouche, Nick Parsons, Thomas Pfeiffer, Xin Yin, Harald Rohde, Marco Schiano, Peter Ossieur, Barry O'Sullivan, Roland Wessäly, Lena Wosinska, Julio Montalvo, David B. Payne

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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Abstract

Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) has been long sought as the ultimate solution to satisfy the demand for broadband access in the foreseeable future, and offer distance-independent data rate within access network reach. However, currently deployed FTTP networks have in most cases only replaced the transmission medium, without improving the overall architecture, resulting in deployments that are only cost efficient in densely populated areas (effectively increasing the digital divide). In addition, the large potential increase in access capacity cannot be matched by a similar increase in core capacity at competitive cost, effectively moving the bottleneck from access to core. DISCUS is a European Integrated Project that, building on optical-centric solutions such as Long-Reach Passive Optical access and flat optical core, aims to deliver a cost-effective architecture for ubiquitous broadband services. One of the key features of the project is the end-to-end approach, which promises to deliver a complete network design and a conclusive analysis of its economic viability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2013
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-0683-3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-0682-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602948
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks - Cartagena, Spain Duration: 23 Jun 2013 → 27 Jun 2013

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Name	IEEE conference publications
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	2161-2056

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Conference	15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Abbreviated title	ICTON 2013
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Cartagena
Period	23/06/13 → 27/06/13

Keywords

end-to-end
flat optical core
FTTP
long-reach passive optical networks
ubiquitous broadband

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Ruffini, M., Doran, N., Achouche, M., Parsons, N., Pfeiffer, T., Yin, X., Rohde, H., Schiano, M., Ossieur, P., O'Sullivan, B., Wessäly, R., Wosinska, L., Montalvo, J., & Payne, D. B. (2013). DISCUS : end-to-end network design for ubiquitous high speed broadband services. In 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2013 Article We.B3.1 (IEEE conference publications). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602948

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