PROSPECTUS
This
project investigates the economic advantages and disadvantages
to carriers of alternative optical system architectures.
A particular focus is mapping network architecture to device
requirements and the associated cost of those devices, and
includes issues such as dynamic bandwidth allocation in the
physical layer and self-install optical network units (ONUs)
and fiber terminations.
The research team is also focusing on the production of devices
which could play a role in enabling network architectures
across the unit-cost/device-reach spectrum. At one side
of this spectrum, we are looking at designs aimed at achieving
short-reach low-performance optoelectronic devices at very
low cost (i.e., for FTTP applications). At the other extreme,
we are beginning to investigate the potential for monolithically
integration of multiple devices on a single chip to allow
production of high-performance, long-reach application devices
within cost-targets.
The working group is providing a forum for interaction among
university and industry researchers and practitioners, representing
different perspectives across the communications value chain
and will write a series of executive white papers to be disseminated
among the member companies and the broader research and development
community.
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MEETINGS
2008
Workshop-January 20
Workshop-November 18
October 16
September 11
July 30
June 17
CIPS Annual -May 15
April 22
March 11
February
11
Advanced PON Wksp - Jan 9
2007
2006
2005
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