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Passive Optical Networks
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Passive Optical Networks

by Cedric F. Lam
October 2007
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
10h 55m
English
Academic Press
Content preview from Passive Optical Networks
become the driving force for the recent enthusiasm in PONs and FTTx
developments.
It would be interesting to know that e-mail and the World Wide Web were the
first and second killer applications in the history of the Internet since it was
proposed in the 1960s. The Internet has been touted as the bandwidth driver in
modern telecommunication networks. A slew of new applications have emerged
in the past few years. Examples of these include peer-to-peer networking, sharing
of music and video clips, network gaming, and voice-over IP.
Among all the emerging applications, the most important is the widespread
adoption of digital TV and VOD. Digital TV signals are much easier to transport
than analog ones because of the much lower linearity and signal-to-noise ...
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ISBN: 9780123738530