Continuous improvements in communication technologies over copper pair access networks
have enabled hybrid fiber/copper access networks that provide ever increasing broadband …

Fixed-broadband access technology is evolving from exclusively copper-based solutions to
hybrid fiber-copper architectures. This article presents the expected next step in the …

G. fast is a new standard from the International Telecommunication Union, which targets 1
Gb/s over short copper loops using frequencies up to 212 MHz. This new technology …

The use of a hybrid copper and fiber architecture is attractive in both fixed access and
mobile backhauling scenarios. This trend led the industry and academia to start developing …

This paper focuses on impulsive noise (IN) mitigation techniques for the fourth generation
broadband (4GBB) access network technology, known as G. fast. G. fast has demonstrated …

Capacity of MIMO DSL systems using 100 MHz measured channel data Page 1 Capacity of
MIMO DSL Systems Using 100 MHz Measured Channel Data Diogo Acatauassú ∗ , Francisco …

Wireline communication using the copper plant is one of the major access techniques. The
shorter the wires, the larger is the frequency band that can be exploited in an economically …

As the higher and higher frequency bands of existing metallic cables in access networks are
being continuously exploited by modern transmission technologies, such as the G. fast, the …

Impulsive noise (IN) can significantly degrade the performance of multi-carrier based
communication systems. In order to improve the performance of such systems, conventional …

To address the demand for high bandwidth data transmission over telephone transmission
lines, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has recently completed the fourth …