Analysis of Future Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Networks- EPON and WiMAX

Gaurav Soni, Navdeep Singh

Hybrid Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) networks become rapidly mature and represent a promising candidate for reducing power consumption, costs, and bandwidth bottlenecks of next-generation broadband access networks. Two key FiWi technologies with similar design goals are Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) and WiMAX. Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) broadband access network is a promising ‘‘last mile’’ access technology, because it integrates wireless and optical access technologies in terms of their respective merits, such as high capacity and stable transmission from optical access technology, and easy deployment and flexibility from wireless access technology. Since FiWi is expected to carry a large amount of traffic, numerous traffic flows may be interrupted by the failure of network components. In this paper, we discuss the FiWi technology for future internet.