Comparing FTTH access networks based on P2P and PMP fibre topologies

Stephan Jay, Karl-Heinz Neumann and Thomas Plückebaum

Telecommunications Policy, 2014, vol. 38, issue 5, 415-425

Abstract: There is an ongoing discussion in the market which Next Generation Access (NGA) architecture best suits future needs and which investment and cost differences exist. The discussion can be subsumed as P2P vs. GPON, which is somewhat misleading as this article reveals. The discussion is driven by the fact that the high capital cost and the long asset life time of fibre mean that the technology choices made today will dominate the opportunities for telecommunication business of all market players, incumbents, competitors, content providers and business and residential users for many years in the future.

Keywords: NGA; FTTH; Point-to-Point; Point-to-Multipoint; GPON; WDM-PON; Cost-modelling; LRIC; CAPEX; OPEX (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2013.04.010

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