National Broadband Network

Hybrid Satellite-Optical Ring Network for Regional Blackspots in Australia's National Broadband Network

Satellite communications is the most prominent solution for covering remote areas for broadband Internet access where long and expensive cables are not feasible to be deployed. The Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) initiation ’delivering superfast broadband to Australian homes and workplaces’ currently face the problem of deploying long fibres to cover regional blackspots considering...

Network Monitoring in Broadband Network

Network Monitoring is a base for Usage Accounting, Network Auditing, Intrusion Detection , Protocol Analysis, Flow Statistics etc. Normally, network monitoring is quite common at low broadband network, especially in 100M/10M Ethernet . While in high broadband backbone, for example Gigabit Ethernet and 2.5G POS (OC48) backbone, a lot of problems exist, including tapping point, packet loss on NIC...

Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination

Communications regulators over the next decade will spend increasing time on conflicts between the interests of broadband providers and the public’s interest in competitive innovation environment on the internet. As the policy questions this conflict raises are basic to communications policy, they are likely to appear in many different forms. So far, the first major appearance has come in the “...

Super-Broadband Wireless Access Network

Broadband Network Architectures: Two Approaches

To support a wide range of multimedia services future fixed and wireless broadband network capabilities should allow the distribution of service functions between the customer terminals and the network nodes. Intelligent Networks (IN) can be considered as the bridging technology between the customer based service management and the service execution in the networks. Considering the mobile and b...