AOE/APOC Joint Symposium on Broadband Access

Co-chairs:
Dr. Jianli Wang, Vice President, Fiberhome, China
Mr. Shoichi Hanatani, President, Asia-Pacific FTTH Council; Hitachi Ltd., Japan

FTTH has been well accepted as a future-proof access solution. In the past few years, great progress has been made in FTTH technologies and deployment. This symposium aims to share those progresses and the lessons we have learned. We will investigate the issues and problems we have in FTTH services and applications, technologies, product development, deployments, network operation and maintenance, regulations, etc. The symposium will invite FTTH experts from service providers, government, equipment vendors, fiber and cable providers, and universities. The preliminary list of invited speakers includes:

AOE/APOC Joint Symposium on Broadband Access

To Be Announced, Greg Caltabiano; Teknovus, USA.

To Be Announced, Lynn D. Hutcheson; Ovum RHK, USA.

R&D and First Commercial Service of WDM-PON, Byung Whi Kim; ETRI, Republic of Korea.

To Be Announced, Guangcheng Li; Fiberhome, China.

Long-Reach and High Split Ratio Passive Optical Networks, David Piehler; Alphion, USA.

To Be Announced, Naoto Yoshimoto; NTT Access Network Service Labs, Japan.

To Be Announced, Chengliang Zhang; China Telecom Res. Inst., China.

Topics include:

• FTTH market status, analysis and forecast;
• FTTH strategies;
• FTTH services and application scenarios;
• FTTH deployment experiences and lessons;
• FTTH fault diagnosis and maintenance;
• Progress in PON standards;
• FTTH networking technologies (10GEPON, GPON, WDM-PON, integrated OLT and Layer 3 switch, integrated home gateway and ONU, OCWDM-PON, etc);
• Low-cost FTTH devices and components, indoor fiber and cable.