Interfacing Requirements in the First Mile Access Space

The vast number of different technologies in the first mile means that there is a substantial amount of interfacing between multiple technologies. Interoperability between these technologies is crucial to ensure an end-to-end solution. This chapter covers different approaches that help build the first mile network. This chapter should be viewed as a possible vision for the future, because most of the proposals in this chapter are not yet formalized; they are just guidelines for engineers to design the next generation of first mile networks.

The preceding chapters discussed multiple implementation philosophies in the first mile, among which the most prominent were passive optical networking ...

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