Telecommunications Local Networks

Overview of local access development, W.K. Ritchie; practical and economic FITL systems - an RBOC view, J. Jensen; German plans for FITL, Rosenau Gogt; future plans for FITL in Japan, T. Miki; a review of copper pair local loop transmission systems, P.F. Adams; local networks distribution practices - a walk from frame to customer, D.I. Monroe; new techniques for customer line fault location, J.P. Trigger; digital signalling in the local loop, R.A. Boulter; passive and active optical networks for the local loop, H. Lemberg; design of passive optical networks, S. Hornung; the provision of telephony over passive optical networks, C.E. Hoppitt; broadband systems on passive optical networks, D.W. Faulkner; star-structured optical local networks, J.R. Fox; operational support systems for future local, K. Maynard; ATM techniques in the local loop - the longer term future of the local networks, J.R. Stern.