By Steven Harris – The access network will require the adoption of scalable new standard architectures leveraging new hardware components and designs. One of the scalable architectures is called “fiber deep”
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By Steven Harris – The focus of the rest of the article is how Ethernet is transforming the access network providing our cable subscribers connectivity via a passive optical network (PON) that uses IEEE Ethernet frames. PONs that use the Ethernet protocol are called Ethernet passive optical networks or EPONs.
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By Steven Harris – Optical communication and signaling principles are well over 200 years old. The first optical telegraph, or semaphore, was used to perform visual signaling across France by inventor Claude Chappe. The essential requirement to communicate by individuals has not diminished since these early years in France
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