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Photonics Briefing #4:
Passive Optical Networks in the Access Market
December 6, 2000
9am to 4:30pm
Boston, MA
Photonics Center at Boston University
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Chairman: Shawn Burke, Photonics Center at Boston University
Objective:
The Local Access Market
Local access represents the last mile Connection to the Broadband all optical network. Several attempts have been made to introduce fiber optics into the local loop including Fiber-to-the-Curb( FTTC) and Fiber-to-the-Home (FITH). These attempts by the local telephone companies have not been successful mainly because of the high cost of technology at the time.
Several new technologies now present the opportunity to overcome these cost barriers-Passive Optical Networks (PON) and Gigabit Ethernet are two examples. A number of new startups have entered the market with PON and Gigabit products that could potentially open the bottleneck to the residential and small office home market (SOHO) for Broadband Services and Optical Networks.
Who should be interested:
Executives from the following companies
- CLECs
- Component Suppliers
- Competitive Local exchange carriers
- Long Distance Carriers
- Telephone Companies
- Systems Suppliers
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- Entrepreneurs
- Consultants
- Venture Capitalists
- Investors
- CATV Companies
- Integrated Service
- Providers
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Contents
- Welcome and Introduction -
Don Fraser, Director, Photonics Center at Boston University
- Overview of the Optical Access Markets -
Dr. Paul Polishuk, IGI Consulting
- Part 1 Financial Analysis of Optical Access Markets -
Frank McEvoy, US Bancorp
- Part 2 Financial Analysis of Optical Access Markets -
Michael Tattersall, Stratsoft
- Review of Optical Access Technologies -
Paul Shumate, LEOS
- Terawave's Approach to Optical Access -
Phil McCall, Terawave Communications
- Optical Access Networking -
Scott Conner, Quantum Bridge Communications
- Fiber to the home - Economic Analysis -
John Gibbs, Marconi
- Gigabit to the Home -
Chris Setty, Product Manger, World Wide Packets
- Component needs of Optical Access Markets -
Costas Saravano, Corning Inc.
- Round Table Discussion
Photonics Center at Boston University
The Photonics Center was launched by Boston University in 1994 as a new model for university-industry collaboration. The Center accelerates the development of new products and companies enabled by emerging photonics technologies, from both within and outside Boston University, by forging business partnerships with new and existing companies. It has created an infrastructure that provides its partners access to seventeen fully permitted laboratories containing more than $25 million in state-of-the-art capital equipment in an $85 million, fully-permitted facility. Partners also have access to a full-time technical staff, and the expertise of more than 50 affiliated faculty with a wide range of technical and business expertise. The Photonics Center’s combined education, research, and commercialization mission positions it to anticipate the impact and timing of photonics technologies on major markets such as telecommunications.
BU Photonics Center
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