
Customer demand for an ever-wider range of communciations services and exciting new technological options are forcing developments in both the international and strategic planning contexts. This volume surveys those developments in both the international and strategic planning...

Preface. National surveys. Fibre-optic subscriber loop networks. Optical fibre pilot projects. Rational and economic fibre systems. Fibre in the access network. Copper systems. Review of copper-pair local loop transmition systems. Improved techniques for access network fault...