First Definitive Book on EPON Technology for Broadband Access Now Available
Author Dr. Glen Kramer of Teknovus Shares EPON Expertise
Petaluma, CA, March 7, 2005 - Dr. Glen Kramer, a system architect at Teknovus and an associate researcher at the University of California, Davis, has recently authored "Ethernet Passive Optical Networks", which has just been published by McGraw Hill. The McGraw-Hill website states: "EPON is the IEEE's (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) approved architecture of choice for the next generation of broadband access. Written by an author of the IEEE 802.3ah standard, this is the first book to explain the EPON architecture, analyze its performance, and annotate the standard. For any engineer or graduate student building equipment for broadband access or service provider offering such service, this will serve as the "authorized" guide to EPON." See http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/getbook.php?isbn=0071445625
Telecommunication companies worldwide are seeking new avenues to increased revenues and market share via the ability to deliver enriched or new features and services to consumers at a reasonable cost. The advent of triple-play services (Video/TV, Voice, Data) is helping fulfill this need. With this demand for triple-play comes the need for broadband access with increased bandwidth to accommodate these services, as well as a low-cost, fast, and reliable method of delivery to millions of premises where people live and work.
Many telecom carriers are finding that fiber optical networks offer the solution. Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) is the next big leap in bringing broadband access to consumers, enabling the delivery of enriched triple-play services, while reducing costs. The key enabling technology for FTTH, the Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) architecture, will drive massive deployment of improved and simplified broadband access.
The Teknovus EPON Advantage<br> Teknovus develops and delivers proven, fourth-generation EPON chipsets with the only features and performance to enable fast, easy-to-deploy, low-cost triple-play services via FTTH at up to 1000 times the bandwidth of DSL. One of the major and exclusive benefits of the Teknovus EPON is support for TV broadcast and multicast.
About the Author
Glen Kramer, Ph.D., is a system architect for Teknovus, Inc., and an associate researcher at the University of California, Davis. He is a member of IEEE Standards Association and past editor of the EPON protocol clause in the IEEE 802.3ah "Ethernet in the First Mile" standard. One of the lead authors of the multi-point control protocol that became the baseline for the EPON architecture, Dr. Kramer has done extensive research on issues of EPON scheduling, fairness, and open access. He is the founder of EPON forum and teaches EPON tutorials and workshops at conferences around the world.
Teknovus Backgrounder
Teknovus develops and delivers the only, fourth-generation, proven EPON system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for fast, easy-to-deploy, and low-cost triple-play (voice, data, video) broadband access via optical fiber networks. The Teknovus EPON chipset is fundamentally changing the way broadband access networks are designed and deployed, including their ability to improve transport capacity, optimize fiber infrastructure, provide management capability, integrate broad service functionality, and reduce the cost of optical access. To learn more about Teknovus, or the company's investors, see www.teknovus.com.
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