Broadband Powerline Communications Networks Network Design

Access networks implement the inter-connection of the customers/subscribers to wide-area communication networks. They allow a large number of subscribers to use various telecommunications services. However, the costs of realization, installation, and maintenance of access networks are very high, very often representing more than 50% of the investment in
the network. Therefore, network providers try to realize the access network at as low a cost as possible to increase their competitiveness in the deregulated telecommunications market. In most cases, access networks are still the property of incumbent network providers (e.g., the former monopolistic telephone companies). Because of that, new network providers try to find solutions to realize their own access networks. A promising possibility for the realization of access networks is offered by the PowerLine Communications (PLC) technology.

Từ khóa: Communications Networks, Network Design, thiết kế mạng, công nghệ viễn thông, communication networks, truyền thông mạng