Increasing Bandwidth to the Subscriber for Deployment of New Interactive Services
The good news is that FTTN economically increases the available bandwidth to the subscriber while leveraging the existing copper plant to keep costs down.
Technological Hurdles
The existing DSL network was engineered to provide HSI access with downstream bandwidth between 0.5 and 2 Mb/s. Competition and increasing usage of the broadband connection have driven HSI bandwidth requirements into the 3 to 8 Mb/s range. However, the deployment of IPTV service calls for a