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A Brief Technology Guide: Broadband Access For All
A Brief Technology Guide: Broadband Access For All
Executive Summary
A historic opportunity awaits the Wireless technologies, in contrast,
communication industry in the years have a huge advantage – they offer
ahead – a chance to connect most personal broadband access regardless
of the world using wireless and wireline of the user’s location. That spells total
technologies. We envisage that five mobility for nomadic and fully mobile
billion people will be connected by use cases. What’s more, if a region
2015, the majority “always on” and lacks wireline infrastructure, wireless
enjoying broadband access. Broadband can provide low-cost broadband
connections will be available just coverage at far lower cost than new
Contents about anywhere in the world, across wireline installations. Especially in
developed and growth markets. Today’s emerging markets, this makes wireless
02 Executive Summary wireline service already reaches some broadband access an attractive
one billion households, and mobile alternative for densely populated
03 1. Always Best-Connected networks connect close to three billion urban and sparsely populated rural
– The End-User’s Perspective subscribers, with varied capabilities areas.
offering true broadband connectivity.
04 2. Look at Access Networks But it will take more extensive use of This white paper discusses today’s
wireless access and new wireline wireless and wireline technologies
06 3. Nokia Siemens Networks’ installations with improved performance and how they are likely to evolve.
Expertise in Wireless and to offer true broadband connectivity Wireless technologies will soon
Wireline Access Technologies to five billion customers. catapult data rates from one Mbps
beyond 100 Mbps and boost efficiency
19 4. Choosing Your Wireline delivers far higher data rates in data delivery. This paper describes
Broadband Strategy than wireless. The wireline user data broadband wireless technologies’
rate is some 30 times that of wireless, positioning in terms of spectrum
22 5. Abbreviations with both evolving in much the same assets, and introduces current and
way. Applications such as IP TV have coming wireline technologies. And it
a healthy appetite for high data explains how to extend the capabilities
rates, so great in fact that only wireline of copper-based DSL access and
solutions can satisfy it. But wireless how to deploy optical networks to
access can deliver most other services, boost user data rates beyond one
including small-screen mobile TV. Gbps.
1. Always Best-Connected
– The End-User’s
Perspective
B
Operator
B services
C Corporate
First mile Aggregation network
A access node network
Stationary,
shared devices
Wireline Broadband Access Network
A High data rate capacity to the end user
20
15
10
5
0
1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 [GHz]
Outdoor only coverage
Indoor coverage with 15 dB penetration
10 G
Ethernet Ethernet
GPON GPON
1G
Broadcast TV
PON
Middle-
SFU Video on demand ware
Media content provisioning
OLT
MDU BRAS
High-speed Splitter
Internet IP Edge
Ethernet
Access
switch IP/MPLS
Backbone
Voice
gateway Softswitch
POTS/ISDN PSTN
MSAN
• SHDSL/SHDSL.bis (Single-pair
High-Speed DSL, ITU-T G.991.2).
Data rate
SHDSL’s upstream and downstream [Mbps]
capacities are equal. Its peak
capacity is 2.3 Mbps at up to 200
VDSL2 with
five km loop length, which may DSM L3 • VDSL2 with DSM L3 is expected to double legacy
be multiplied by using regenerators. 100 VDSL2 data rates and thus to increase reach
High data rate
Enhancing the SHDSL standard, • VDSL2 offers the largest bandwidths at shortest
SHDSL.bis offers up to 5.7 Mbps loop lengths in both asymmetrical and symmetrical
modes of operation
downstream and upstream. 60
VDSL2
Bonding several lines can multiply • ADSL2plus offers high downstream bit rate up to 3 km
these rates to N x 5.7 Mbps. – after that, it behaves the same as ADSL2
Passive
optical
splitters
Optical line
termination
Subtended
DSLAM
Multi dwelling optical network terminations
PON technologies
Residential PSTN
VLANs Tunnel
TV/Video Server
VoIP
IPTV Tunnel Tunnel
WWW
Tunnel
Business
WWW
VoIP
Tunnel
WWW
VLAN#1
VLAN#2 Tunnel
VLAN#N
Business Business
Packet
Network VLAN#1
VLAN#1
VLAN#2 Tunnel Tunnel VLAN#2
VLAN#N VLAN#N
Figure 9: The development of real-world wireline and wireless user data rates
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Again, wireline can offer clearly higher Of course, any scenario mandating
data rates than wireless solutions. mobility or nomadic use entails
Figure 9 tracks the bit rate evolution. wireless technology, but if a region
The wireline user data rate is some lacks wireline infrastructure, wireless
30 times that of wireless, with both can also provide broadband coverage
on a similar evolutionary trajectory. at far lower cost than new wireline
Wireless data rates have attained a installations. This makes wireless
level enabling satisfying performance broadband access an appealing
for most services, with the notable option for densely populated urban
exception of IP TV and its big appetite and sparsely populated rural areas,
for high data rates. especially in emerging markets. What’s
more, prices for wireless handsets
Incumbent wireline operators leverage are eroding fast, and consumer pricing
legacy copper assets to offer strategies can be geared to align
broadband services with DSL. In demand and available capacity.
view of constantly growing end-user
bandwidth demand, fiber must be Wireless broadband data requires
brought closer to the subscriber. high-capacity transport to the base
FTTC and FTTB are the fiber station, which microwave radio is
deployments of choice. The next equipped to provide. Aggregate
step up is FTTH, where fiber runs connections may demand higher
right to the subscriber’s home. capacity with fiber connections.
Bandwidth-hungry applications like And having fiber connections available
high-definition TV and corporate for transport to at least some of the
connectivity will drive the demand base station sites will be the true
for wireline network deployments. enabler for mass market wireless
broadband data.
Carriers wishing to provide high-speed
wireline connections beyond 8 Mbps To choose the wireless technology
to suburban and especially rural that suits their purposes best,
areas across copper lines face the operators must analyze assets such
formidable challenge of loop length as their wireline network, frequency
constraints. High bit rate offerings’ licenses, legacy equipment and
feasibility hinges on how close the sites, the underlying network and
fiber connection is to the home and compatibility requirements, and
how much it costs to put fiber in the the services they wish to deliver.
ground.
There are a number of different
broadband access technologies
available today. Nokia Siemens
Networks has the widest range of
broadband access solutions in the
industry. Nokia Siemens Networks
can help the operators to select the
best solution for them with respect to
CAPEX, OPEX, roll-out speed and
support for their planned services.
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