The Dull but Costly side of Next-Gen Access: optical distribution networks

Table of Contents

• Executive summary
• In a nutshell
• Ovum view
• Key messages
• Optical distribution network market
• Optical distribution networks: also known as “holes, poles, and permits”
• Only a few systems vendors provide full set of fixed NGA solutions across multiple regions
• Construction costs dominate other elements of NGA
• Keeping priorities straight during NGA rollouts
• Regulatory issues related to ODN
• Aesthetics
• Helping SPs roll out NGA networks: vendor business model evolution
• Huawei
• Alcatel-Lucent
• ZTE
• Corning
• Marais

List of Tables

• Table 1: Key suppliers of ODN hardware and accessories

List of Figures

• Figure 1: Fiber to the premises (FTTP) network topology example
• Figure 2: Multiple types of access networks
• Figure 3: Telecom Italia installing fiber along streets of Milan
• Figure 4: Rough costs of per-subscriber installation cost (2007): US vs. China
• Figure 5: Cisco' s allocation of FTTx costs into three buckets
• Figure 6: Priorities in the metro network: one vendor' s view
• Figure 7: NGA directions
• Figure 8: P2MP/P2P passive optical networks
• Figure 9: TT&T copper cross-connect box
• Figure 10: Huawei engineers installing FTTH for Etisalat
• Figure 11: ZTE' s process for planning and budgeting an ODN project
• Figure 12: Application of preconnectorization cable systems in aerial plant