Market Studies
Buying the Lightwave
BroadBand Residential Access: Volume I

Published: April 2001

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Broadband Is Coming to a Home Near Yours! A new report, "Broadband Residential Access, Volume I of Bringing the Lightwave Home," from IGI Consulting, Inc. (www.igigroup.com) forecasts a penetration of broadband that approaches 50% of the nation’s homes in the next few years. The author, Clifford Holliday, president of B & C Consulting Services, notes in the report, "The thirst for broadband access in the home has been driving the entire Internet backbone network growth phenomena. This was driven by the rapid growth of added Internet Accesses, and the growth in online time per access; however, in the last year the primary driver has changed to the conversion to high-speed access."

Residential access comprises all of the networks directly serving the homes in the US. There are about 104,000,000 homes (households) in this market, with some 99% served by telephone service. This report considers all of the technologies currently being deployed to provide broadband access in this vast market. These technologies include: xDSL on twisted pairs, CATV networks, Passive Optical Networks, and various radio based networks. All of these are covered in exhaustive detail in the report, including technologies, applications, vendors, and market projections.

The report forecasts a substantial market for the penetration of broadband in the residential market as the following table illustrates.

Total High-Speed US Access Lines


Dr. Polishuk, President of IGI Consulting, comments, "This report provides an unequalled view of the many networks seeking to bring broadband access to our homes. Mr. Holliday, as author of this report (and the "Lightwave Series") brings a unique perspective to this task, having been instrumental in many of the major events in the broadband residential area. He was a leader of the Cerritos and Vistanet high-speed network demonstration projects, and the leader of the team that developed one of the earliest specifications for the Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier- the ERLU. As such, he is one of the major influences in the redesign of residential access that has taken place in the last decade. He was also one of the originators of the Residential Gateway (RG) concept. He was a primary author of the original Residential Gateway report that first described the RG."

Broadband Residential Access is one of three volumes (Volume I) of a total report entitled "Bringing the Lightwave Home." The entire report provides exhaustive coverage of Broadband Residential Networks (wire line, fiber/coax, PONs, CATV and radio-based), Residential Gateways (whole house, Internet, and set-tops), and Home Networks (cable-based, phoneline, powerline, and radio based.) Each area is discussed as to market drivers, underlying technologies, applications, price and market forecasts, vendor profiles, and standards activity.

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Table of Contents

BROADBAND RESIDENTIAL ACCESS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF FIGURES

SUMMARY OF CONCEPTS

INTRODUCTION

THE HOME OF THE FUTURE

MARKET DRIVERS

  • THIRST FOR BROADBAND ACCESS
  • THE INTERNET
    • xDSL Forecasts
    • Cable Modem Forecasts
  • Radio-Based High-Speed Line Forecasts
    • Fixed Wireless
    • Satellite-Based Service
  • Total High-Speed Residential Line Forecast

SEGMENTATION OF THE NETWORK

  • LONG-HAUL DWDM
  • METRO DWDM (METRO CORE)
  • ACCESS NETWORK EQUIPMENT (METRO ACCESS)
  • WAVELENGTH ROUTERS & OPTICAL SWITCHES
  • TERABIT ROUTERS & GIGABIT SWITCHES
  • AGGREGATION DEVICES
  • ENTERPRISE ACCESS SYSTEMS
  • VIDEO ACCESS EQUIPMENT

RESIDENTIAL ACCESS SYSTEMS

  • RESIDENTIAL ACCESS NETWORKS
  • HOW DOES RESIDENTIAL ACCESS FIT WITH THE OVERALL OPTICAL NETWORK?
  • CHARACTERIZING RESIDENTIAL ACCESS
  • WHAT ARE THE COMPETING TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESIDENTIAL ACCESS?
    • TDM
    • CATV
    • PON
    • Radio-Based
  • THE TDM DESIGN
    • History of the TDM Design
    • The ‘Pure Copper’ Environment
    • The Electronic Serving Area
    • Adding Fiber To Electronic Serving Area Design
    • Fiber to the "X"
    • FTTH
    • The NGDLC (Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier)
    • TR-303 vs. TR-008
  • Traffic Implications of the Internet on the DLC Design
    • Traffic Model – The Strain of Broadband
    • Operations Implications of DLC Design
    • Economic Drivers for DLC Access Design
    • Cost Model for FITL
    • Characterization of Today’s Wireline/Fiber Residential Access
  • THE CATV DESIGN
    • Classical CATV
    • CATV Basic Design
    • Two-Way Systems
    • The Fiber Trunked CATV System
    • Fiber to the Node
    • Modern HFC and Cable Modems
    • Characterization of Current CATV Networks
  • THE PON DESIGN
    • Status of PON
    • Advantage and Disadvantages of PON
  • BROADBAND RESIDENTIAL ACCESS APPLICATIONS
    • Cable Modems
    • xDSL Lines
  • DLC DESIGN AND BROADBAND RESIDENTIAL ACCESS – TRAFFIC IMPLICATIONS
  • RADIO-BASED ALTERNATIVES FOR RESIDENTIAL ACCESS
    • MMDS
    • LMDS
    • Satellite
  • REVIEW OF VENDORS OF RESIDENTIAL ACCESS EQUIPMENT
    • Summary of Wireline Vendors
    • Wireline Equipment Supplier Profiles
    • Accelerated Networks
    • Advanced Fibre Communications
    • Alcatel
    • ANDA Networks
    • Broadband Technologies (Pliant Systems)
    • Catena Networks
    • Efficient Networks
    • Ensemble Communications
    • Ericsson
    • Hybrid Networks
    • Lucent
    • Marconi (Reltec)
    • Nortel
    • Optical Solutions
    • PairGain (ADC)
    • Quantum Bridge
    • Siemens
  • CATV RESIDENTIAL ACCESS EQUIPMENT VENDORS
  • Summary of CATV Access Vendors
  • CATV Equipment Supplier Profiles
    • ADC Telecommunications
    • Antec
    • Artel
    • General Instruments
    • Harmonic Lightwave
    • Lucent
    • Philips
    • Scientific Atlanta
    • Synchronous Communications Inc.
    • RADIO-BASED RESIDENTIAL ACCESS EQUIPMENT VENDORS
    • Summary of Radio-Based Access Vendors
    • Vendor Profiles
    • Adaptive Broadband Corp.
    • ADC Telecomm.
    • Alcatel
    • Cisco
    • Ensemble Communications
    • Hughes Network Systems
    • Hybrid Networks
    • Nortel 92
    • Netro Corp.
    • Telaxis Communications Corp.
    • Triton Network Systems
    • Vyyo, Inc.

PRICE FORECASTS

  • RESIDENTIAL ACCESS PRICE FORECASTS
    • Wire Line
    • CATV
    • Radio-Based Options
    • MMDS
    • LMDS
    • Satellite

MARKET FORECASTS

  • RESIDENTIAL ACCESS NETWORKS
    • Telephony – xDSL-Based Networks
    • CATV - Cable Modem-Based Networks
    • Radio-Based High Speed Access Forecasts – Fixed and Satellite
  • TOTAL ACCESS NETWORK MARKET FORECASTS

SUCCESS STRATEGIES

  • CARRIERS
  • VENDORS

STANDARDS ACTIVITIES

  • ADSL Forum
  • Cable Labs
  • Digital Audio Visual Council
  • Electronic Industries Alliance
  • IEEE-1394
  • IEEE- 802.3
  • T1
  • Universal ADSL Working Group
  • Video Electronics Standards Association

APPENDIX I – MATRIX OF PROVIDERS

APPENDIX II – LISTING OF ACRONYMS

Table of Figures

  • Figure 1, Report Major Volumes
  • Figure 2, SBC xDSL Gain in 2000
  • Figure 3, xDSL In-Service End of 2000, Selected Companies
  • Figure 4, xDSL Forecast – US
  • Figure 5, Cable Modem Forecast
  • Figure 6, Fixed Wireless Forecast – US Subscribers
  • Figure 7, Satellite High-Speed Access - US Subscribers
  • Figure 8, xDSL and Cable Modem High-Speed Lines - US Forecast
  • Figure 9, Comparison of xDSL and Cable Modem Forecasts
  • Figure 10, Total High-Speed Access Lines – By Type
  • Figure 11, Total High-Speed Access Lines
  • Figure 12, High-Speed Accesses vs. Household Growth
  • Figure 13, "Riding the Lightwave" Rationale
  • Figure 14, The Residential World
  • Figure 15, Copper Tree and Branch Design
  • Figure 16, Resistance of Various Gauge Cables
  • Figure 17, Original CSA Design
  • Figure 18, CSA with Fiber Feeder
  • Figure 19, Fiber to the 'X' Varieties
  • Figure 20, Original CSA Design
  • Figure 21, CSA Design with Fiber Feeder
  • Figure 22, Fiber to the Node
  • Figure 23, Fiber to the Curb
  • Figure 24, NGDLC Acronyms
  • Figure 25, Growth of Remote Terminal Trunking Required for Internet Traffic
  • Figure 26, xDSL Traffic Impact on Local Access
  • Figure 27, OAM&P Requirements - DLC/FTTx Design
  • Figure 28, DLC Architecture Comparison
  • Figure 29, Serving Area Calculations - Cost Model
  • Figure 30, Today's Residential Access Network
  • Figure 31, Basic CATV Network
  • Figure 32, Two Way Cable TV Network
  • Figure 33, Fiber Trunked CATV System
  • Figure 34, HFC CATV System
  • Figure 35, HFC CATV with Cable Modems
  • Figure 36, State-of-the-Art CATV System
  • Figure 37, PON Basic Arrangement
  • Figure 38, Cable Modem - Head End Equipment
  • Figure 39, ADSL on Wire Facility
  • Figure 40, ADSL from Enhanced DLC
  • Figure 41, C.O. Equipment for ADSL
  • Figure 42, 'Up-Network' Impact of Residential Demand
  • Figure 43, Frequency Vs. Distance for LMDS
  • Figure 44, Vendor Summary Wireline Residential Access Systems
  • Figure 45, UMC 1000 Application Layout
  • Figure 46, Litespan/OneStream Layout
  • Figure 47, Application of Universal Access Platform
  • Figure 48, Vendor Summary Video Access Equipment
  • Figure 49, General Instruments Equipment Layout
  • Figure 50, Summary of Radio-Based Access Vendors

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