Broadband Access and Services in the Local Loop: A Comprehensive Report

Format: Perfect Bound
ISBN: 1-931695-10-5
Price: $495

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FEATURES

• Provides a unique perspective on and insights into the state of the broadband industry and its service deployment
• Compares DSL to other last-mile broadband technologies
• Covers the status of DSL deployments in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to draw useful conclusions about the issues that impact successful DSL rollout
• Weighs DSL deployment in rural areas against deployment urban areas
• Discusses the major issues and obstacles facing DSL service providers
• Closely examines the current VoDSL status and vendor efforts
• Examines the various access architectures and the benefits/drawbacks of each
• Offers concrete business examples of successful applications and architectures
• Characterizes the advantages and limitations of myriad DSL technologies
• Forecasts what the future of the local loop will be and who is likely to benefit
• Provides industry perspectives on the business challenges of high-bandwidth transmissions
• Analyzes the market sizes and potential growth of key broadband service categories
• Describes innovative customer-service and marketing strategies for building a loyal customer base
• Addresses operations support system (OSS) requirements for service assurance
• Examines security issues within broadband networks
• Describes the current regulatory environment surrounding the deployment of new broadband access transmission technologies

A Sampling of Questions Answered

• What is meant by broadband telecommunications?
• What solutions can be implemented to accelerate the industry's movement toward high-speed, economic, ubiquitous Internet access?
• What can the industry do to increase acceptance of DSL in the broadband arena?
• Had investors jumped a bit prematurely onto the DSL bandwagon?
• What does it mean to reach mass market? How can the industry position itself to reach mass market?
• How can providers deliver carrier-class service to a mass market and still sustain reasonable business positions?
• What are the most profitable business models?
• How can service providers reduce cost?
• How can service providers grow fast enough not to lose market-share—especially when they are processing thousands of orders a day?
• How can service providers drive higher-margin services?
• How can providers help to make DSL successful?
• With such highly perceived demands, why are DSL and cable penetration rates so low?
• Why is everyone moving so slowly to deploy? What can carriers do to speed DSL deployment?
• What are the vendors doing to move DSL along?
• What is coming next? Does voice over DSL (VoDSL) come out first? Or does voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)? Or do they come out together?
• If VoDSL does not emerge soon and VoIP continues to progress, will we have a VoDSL?
• How can DSL be managed more efficiently in the local loop?
• Why should remote terminals be used for DSL deployment?
• What models have been proposed to resolve access to broadband capabilities in remote terminals?
• How can carriers choose among the options for the deployment of DSL capabilities at remote locations?
• What should the carrier consider when making the selection among the several options for providing ADSL service?
• What effect does DSL have on an incumbent local-exchange carrier's (ILEC's) network architecture?
• How should DSL be deployed in a digital loop carrier (DLC)?
• What are some of the functionalities that deliver a full-system telecommunications solution?
• What can be done to improve DSL's installation success rate?
• What does it mean to have a flexible, extensible, and customizable platform?
• What are today's requirements for the DSL infrastructure to deliver service quality and assurance?
• What are the key ingredients of DSL service management?