White Paper:
Enabling New Services through Fiber to the Premises

Recently, Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) in the U.S. announced plans for large-scale deployments of Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) for residential customers and small and medium businesses. However, FTTP will only be successful if LECs develop and offer services that leapfrog the competition and grow the revenue stream. In addition, LECs will have to evolve every part of the network, not just the access.

This paper describes some network challenges that must be met to support what is called the triple play of services (voice, data, and video). It looks at the evolution of services and the changes required in the network to support those services. It also shows that new services, not FTTP alone, will be the driver for significant evolutionary changes in the network, including optical core networks, service elements, and signaling and control.

Authors:
Kenneth Lutz, Principal Systems Engineer, Telcordia
Anindo Bagchi, Principal Business Developer, Telcordia

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