With increasing demand for bandwidth-hungry services, and competition between service providers to offer higher speed broadband, operators worldwide are looking to fibre to overcome the reach and bandwidth constraints of DSL over copper in the access network. Building on its experience of commercial PON deployments, BT has been undertaking trials of current PON fibre-to-the-premises equipment to confirm the technical capabilities, costs and operational impact of deployment at greenfield developments as part of its 21st century network vision.
展开▼
