Imrich Chlamtac & Ashwin Gumaste 
Broadband Services [PDF ebook] 
Business Models and Technologies for Community Networks

Access to the Internet is an increasing problem in many areas of
the world. As the popularity and usefulness of the Internet
increases on a daily basis, lack of access to the technology is
putting many groups at a disadvantage in terms of better education,
better jobs and even in terms of higher levels of civic
participation. However, creating a network infrastructure to
serve outlying communities and sectors of the population is not
straight-forward.

This book brings together all the aspects of the problem –
technical, regulatory and economic – into one volume to provide a
comprehensive resource. It describes the latest technological
advances that allow cost-effective network infrastructures to be
built, and places them in the context of the applications and
services that the infrastructure will deliver. A section on
business models and case studies from North American and Europe
demonstrate that the solutions are economically and practically
viable.

This book is essential for anyone looking to gain an
understanding of the issues and technology surrounding the access
debate. It will be of particular relevance to network
engineers/designers/planners at the incumbent operator companies
charged with delivering broadband access to as yet unconnected
regions. Governments and regulatory bodies will also find
this a useful guide to the problems that they may face.

Cuprins

Foreword.

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction (Imrich Chlamtac, Ashwin Gumaste and csaba A.
Szabó).

PART ONE: APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES.

2. Broadband Home/Entertainment Services (Arieh Moller and
Roy Isacowitz).

3. Applications and Services to Meet Society-Related Needs
(Csaba A. Szabo).

PART TWO: BUSINESS MODELS.

4. Key Legal and Regulatory Issues Affecting Community Broadband
Projects in the United States (Sean Stokes and Jim
Baller).

5. European Telecommunication Law and Community Networks
(Giovanni Pascuzzi and Andrea Rossato).

6. Models for Public Sector Involvement in Regional and Local
Broadband Projects (Gareth Hughes).

7. Customer Owned and Municipal Fiber Networks (Bill St.
Arnaud).

8. Towards Technologically and Competitively Neutral Fiber
to the Home (FTTH) Infrastructure (Marvin Sirbu and Anupam
Banerjee).

PART THREE: TECHNOLOGY.

9. Backbone Optical Network Design for Community Networks
(Ashwin Gumaste, Csaba A. Szab o and Imrich Chlamtac).

10. A Comparison of the Current State of DSL Technologies
(Scott A. Valcourt).

11. Fiber in the Last Mile (Ashwin Gumaste, ¯, Nasir
Ghani and Imrich Chlamtac).

12. Ethernet in the First Mile (Wael William Diab).

13. DOCSIS as a Foundation for Residential and Commercial
Community Networking over Hybrid Fiber Coax (Steven Fulton,
Chaitanya Godsay and Radim Barto S).

14. Broadband Wireless Networks: a Roadmap to Emerging Trends
and Standards (E. Baccarelli, M. Biagi, Raffaele Bruno, Marco
Conti and Enrico Gregori).

PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES.

15. Community Networks in North America (Priya Shetty and
Ashwin Gumaste).

16. European Broadband Initiatives with Public Participation
(Csaba A. Szabó).

Index.

Despre autor

Imrich Chlamtac, Create Net Research Consortium

Ashwin Gumaste, Fujitsu Laboratories, USA

Csaba A. Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and
Economics, Hungary