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The Optical Society

Advancing the Science and Technology of Light

Access Networks and In-house Communications (ANIC)

20 June - 20 June 2012, Cheyenne Mountain Resort, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States



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ANIC addresses all relevant research challenges and open research issues for FTTx technologies.

The implementation of FTTx technologies worldwide is establishing substantially increased broadband capabilities in many countries and is bringing these capabilities into the homes of millions. The worldwide FTTx number of users is increasing exponentially and new deployments across the globe are continually being initiated. European, North American, and Asian markets all are expected to be high growth areas and many service providers are investing heavily in the deployment of optical access network technologies. Today, numerous research laboratories and equipment providers are actively engaged in major research projects oriented t solutions for enhanced broadband connectivity through theuse of optics and photonics. This OSA meeting is designed to present many of the latest advances in the development of FTTx technologies ranging from significant advancements in device development to the development of sophisticated algorithms to transmit data, control and monitor the network, and efficiently distribute the signals.

Papers are being considered in the following topic categories:

  • FTTx architectures
  • Tradeoffs of passive vs. active network implementation
  • Enhancements in passive optical networks
  • WDM in the access network
  • Single fiber transmission limitations
  • Techniques supporting enhanced network scalability
  • Techniques supporting 10G per channel solutions
  • Optical amplification in the access network
  • Colorless ONUs designs
  • Monitoring techniques
  • Radio backhauling and integration with FTTx
  • Impairment compensation techniques
  • Modulation formats suited for reflective ONUs
  • Free-space optics
  • Radio over fiber
  • POF and MMF transmission issues and performance
  • Wireless-wireline convergence
  • Packet/burst switching techniques suitable for access networks
  • Applications of wavelength and fiber switching in access networks
  • Dynamic wavelength assignment and control for WDM-PONs
  • MAC optimization for QoS and enhanced performance support
  • Resiliency issues
  • Optical access-core networks convergence
  • Metro-access convergence
  • Techno-economic optimization of optical access networks deployments
  • Network demonstrations and field trials

Chairs

Pandelis Kourtessis, London Herts Univ., UK
Thomas Pfeiffer, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany
Antonio Teixeira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

View the 2011 Meeting Archive (pdf) containing the final program.

Special Events

OIDA Workshop

Photonic Integration for Advanced Modulation Format Transmission at 100Gb/s and Beyond - Status of the Industry and Challenges Ahead Workshop
Thursday, 21 June
08:30 - 17:00
Complimentary to all Advanced Photonics Registrants!

Top 5 Downloaded ANIC Meeting InfoBase Papers:

Go to the Optics InfoBase for a listing of all meeting paper archives.

This event is part of the Advanced Photonics Congress, allowing attendees to access to all meetings within the Congress for the price of one and to collaborate on topics of mutual interest.

Advanced Photonics Congress

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