The 2014 Broadband Cost Reduction Directive (BCRD) seeks to support the deployment of high speed broadband by reducing costs associated with civil works and streamlining administrative procedures for network deployment. The BCRD is ripe for review in light of new EU objectives to foster Gigabit...

Next Generation Access Networks will enable much higher bandwidths than copper based access networks. Although technological progress provides for higher bandwidth on copper as well, most experts agree that next generation access networks finally will be based on fibre optic cables in the entire...