Fiber in the Local Loop: Business, Economic, and Technical Challenges

Format: Softcover, 387 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-16-1
Price: $380

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Current FITL Deployment Plans

Part I: The Broadband Network

• The Promises of the Information Superhighway
• Interactive Television: A Place for New Technology
• The Broadband Subscriber Loop: Visions of the Future
• The Revenues of the Infoband
• Certainties in Tomorrow's Broadband Market
• NYNEX's Video Service Platform
• Rapid Service Delivery: The Challenge of the '90s
• Delivery of Educational Interactive Video Programming to Homes
• Video and Broadband Services in Rural America

Part II: Business Issues

• Alliances and Cooperation
• The Next-Generation Network: Hybrid Fiber/Coax Cable
• Broadband Technology Options and Issues
• Economies of Scope in the Access Network
• Business Applications of a Video Server Network
• An Investigation of Technology Convergence as an Enabler in the Local Loop
• Fiber Deployment: Through the Glass, Dimly
• Installed First Cost and Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Broadband Access Systems
• Thrashing about with the Future: The Cable Television Broadcasting Industry
• The Local Loop: An MSO's Perspective
• Local-Exchange Competition Issues and Implications
• FITL: The Lowest Cost Full-Service Network
• The Electric Utilities: A Synergistic Force Advertising as a Market Driver

Part III: Regulatory Issues

• Route 2000: Information Superhighway Public Policy Road Map
• Unbundling the Loop: Ameritech's Customers First Plan
• The Consumer Imperative in the National Information Infrastructure
• California Initiatives: Road Map to Convergence
• Telco Entry into Video

Part IV: Deployment Architectures

• Comparison of Ring Architectures and Their Application in the Network
• Evolution of Hybrid Fiber/Coax Networks
• Costs of the Competing Architectures
• Hybrid Fiber/Coax Networks: The 21st Century Local Loop Architecture
• Strategic Scenarios for the Deployment of Fiber Optic Systems into Subscriber Networks
• Common Space Architecture
• Rural Fiber Network in Service
• Access Architectures for Small Businesses
• Low-Density Fiber Distribution Architectures
• End-to-End Video Dial Tone Network
• Access Network Architectures
• Deployment Strategies-Interexchange
• The End-to-End Switched Digital Network
• Development of U.K. Cable/Telephony Architecture

Part V: Technological Issues

• Hybrid Fiber/Coax: A Solution for Broadband Information Services
• The Open Architecture Distributed-Switching Model: Building the Network Operating System for the Information Superhighway
• Better Business Access to the Network
• Reliability of Hybrid Fiber/Coax Distribution Systems
• From Supervisory Systems to Operations Interface Module to Sub-Network Controllers to Element-Management Layers: What Is a Gateway Network Element?
• Power Solutions for the Local Loop
• Hybrid Fiber/Coax Systems: Powering Issues
• Video On-Ramps to the Information Superhighway
• Powering a Lifeline Broadband Network
• Operations Support System Issues for the Broadband Loop