This report from the Broadband Forum was released in January 2021. The report deals with fiber access extension as an alternative to existing copper infrastructure, one that provides service providers an architecture to deploy fiber services cost effectively. This architecture consists of a network where the fiber is extended by using a copper medium without causing significant degradation in quality of user experience as compared to the fiber to the home topology.
Keywords: Architecture/Engineering, Audio/Video, Connected Home, Construction/New Buildings, Fiber Optics, Protocols/Standards