Fourth Generation Broadband Delivered by Hybrid FttH Solution — A Techno-Economic Study
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The use of fibre will be inevitable for transporting hundreds of Mb/s to and from end-users, but this does not necessary mean that fibre has to be deployed all the way up to a point into the home. An alternative is bringing fibre up to the Home (Hybrid FttH) and reusing existing telephony wiring for abridging the last 20-200m. A new transmission technique is developed making this possible, G.Fast. We developed a techno-economic model to see whether this technique is feasible from an economic point of view. In this model we introduce a new method to estimate churn rates. We conclude that G.Fast is for most operators economic feasible on the short term, but more important, especially for operators who are limited in deployment of FttH by working capacity, using Hybrid Fibre has a great effect on their market share. Hybrid FttH, using G.Fast, might be the straw that has to be caught by the European telecom operators to survive the competition with the cable TV operators.
TNO Identifier
478319
Source
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), 5(11), pp. 1328-1342.
Pages
1328-1342
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