Broadband Services

Buiness models and technologies for community networks

Imrich Chlamtac, Ashwin Gumaste, Csaba A. Szabo

276 pages, parution le 01/03/2005

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Résumé

Ubiquitous access to the Internet is essential to prevent the deepening of modern society's digital divide.

Remote communities are at a disadvantage when it comes to seeking better education, better jobs, and higher levels of civic participation. Governments around the world have recognised the damage the 'digital divide' can create, and have initiated programmes to encourage communities to build and manage their own broadband access networks. Yet creating a network infrastructure to serve outlying communities is not straightforward.

Broadband Services brings together all aspects of the problem - technical, regulatory and economic -into one comprehensive volume. It contains inclusive coverage of the emerging business and technology models for broadband networks, and discusses innovations and challenges in the related technology fields, as well as the legal framework and business models for home user and community networks.

The holistic approach of Broadband Services

Encompasses business, regulatory and economic issues as well as technical solutions
Discusses business models for FTTx, as well as for dark fiber/metro fiber/municipal fiber networks
Presents cutting-edge technologies, such as xDSL, FTTx and Ethernet, cable networks, and broadband wireless access, and illustrates how to implement them to best effect
Includes a section on business models and case studies from North America and Europe demonstrating that solutions are economically and practically viable

This text provides network engineers, planners and designers, as well as researchers, students, and academics with an integrated view of the applications, business considerations and technology aspects of delivering broadband services to business, public and residential users.

L'auteur - Imrich Chlamtac

Imrich Chlamtac, PhD, is the Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications at the University of Texas and the Director of the Center for Advanced Telecommunications and Services. A Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and the author of more than 250 papers, Chlamtac has served as Editor-in-Chief of Wireless Networks, Mobile Networks, and Optical Networks magazines.

L'auteur - Ashwin Gumaste

Ashwin Gumaste received a master's degree in telecommunications and is currently with the Center for Advanced Telecommunications Systems and Services (CATSS) at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He is also part of Photonics Networking Laboratory at Fujitsu in Richardson, Texas, where his research includes network development and design. Ashwin has worked with Cisco Systems in the Optical Networking Group, has written numerous papers, and has several pending U.S. patents. He was awarded the National Talent Search Scholarship in India in 1991. His research interests include optical and wireless networking and Self-Similar phenomenon in social and networking environments. He has also proposed the first architecture to implement optical burst switching and for multicasting lightpaths called Light-trails.

L'auteur - Csaba A. Szabo

Csaba A. Szabo: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HUNGARY

Sommaire

Foreward
About the Editors
Contributors
Introduction
Applications and Services
- Broadband Home/Entertainment Services
- Applications and Services to Meet Society-Related Needs
Business Models
- Key Legal and Regulatory Issues Affecting Community Broadband Projects in the United States
- European Telecommunication Law and Community Networks
- Models for Public Sector Involvement in Regional and Local Broadband Projects
- Customer Owned and Municipal Fiber Networks
- Towards Technologically and Competitively Neutral Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Infrastructure
Technology
- Backbone Optical Network Design for Community Networks
- A Comparison of the Current State of DSL Technologies
- Fiber in the Last Mile
- Ethernet in the First Mile
- DOCSIS as a Foundation for Residential and Commercial Community Networking over Hybrid Fiber Coax
- Broadband Wireless Networks: a Roadmap to Emerging Trends and Standards
- Case Studies
- Community Networks in North America
- European Broadband Initiatives with Public Participation
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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Imrich Chlamtac, Ashwin Gumaste, Csaba A. Szabo
Parution	01/03/2005
Nb. de pages	276
Format	17 x 25
Couverture	Relié
Poids	706g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780470022481
ISBN13	978-0-470-02248-1