FTTx Networks: Technology Implementation and Operation

FTTX Networks: Technology Implementation and Operation provides an in-depth treatment of the technology and implementation of FTTX networks, discusses the environment that gave rise to FTTX, provides a survey of the available FTTX technologies, and gives users the state-of-the-art knowledge needed for successful deployment of FTTX.

The book includes hands-on project planning engineering design and operations checklists, as well as recommended best practices for configuring FTTH systems and the data networks preceding them for IPTV, voice, and data, with case studies of actual FTTH systems and a methodology for predicting the performance of real systems. This book is a must-read for all network engineers, technical businesspeople, and technical specialists engaged in building FTTX networks, from technology selection, to fielding the network in production, to implementation.

Compares, contrasts, and explains FTTX technologiesProvides hands-on project planning, engineering design, and operations checklists, allowing for a quick climb up the network design, deployment, and implementation learning curvesDiscusses recommended best practices for configuring FTTH systems and the data networks preceding them, for IPTV, voice, and dataIncludes case studies of actual FTTH systems and their configurationsCovers a methodology for predicting the performance of real systems, particularly in the optical domain

Part 1. Overview of FTTx 1. Introduction 2. Deciding to Build an FTTx Network

Part 2. FTTx Technologies 3. EPON 4. GPON 5. Other Network Standards 6. Optical Layer Issues 7. Choosing an FTTx Technology

Part 3. FTTx Network Implementation 8. Planning to Implement the Network 9. Outside Plant 10. Data Services Architecture 11. Video Overview and Broadcast Video Architecture 12. IPTV Architecture 13. VoIP Architecture 14. Network Management Architecture and Design

Part 4. FTTx Network Operation 15. Production Operations 16. Performance Management 17. Identifying Network Threats and Security Vulnerabilities