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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition

by Ivan Kaminow, Tingye Li, Alan E. Willner
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
33h 42m
English
Academic Press
Content preview from Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
operators with cable-modem service. They have similar density and demographic
situations. Verizon has a little more aerial plant, which allows for less costly FTTP
construction, but otherwise, the two companies encounter mostly the same net-
work, policy, and market factors.
Yet Verizon has committed to FTTP, with plans to spend about $20 billion from
2003 to 2010, and AT&T has committed to FTTN, with plans to spend about
$7 billion. In this case, the element noted as “executive commitment” is important.
It is a matter of how the top officers have weighed the risks associated with FTTP
and FTTN investments—risks of not achieving timely payback criteria vs the risks
of investing in a lower-capacity facility that may require costly upgrades, possibly ...
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ISBN: 9780123741721