InhaltsangabeI Introduction.- The Anatomy of an Access Network.- Drivers for Broadband in Europe.- Enabling Techniques for Broadband Access Networks.- II Copper and Wireless Access Networks.- Vectored DSLs and the Copper PON (CuPON).- Enabling Broadband Wireless Technologies.- WiMAX Networks.- III Optical Access Networks.- Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks.- Quality of Service in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs).- MultiChannel EPONs.- Long-Reach Optical Access.- Optical Access-Metro Networks.- Signal Processing Techniques for Data Confidentiality in OCDMA Access Networks.- IV Optical-Wireless Access Networks.- Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) Networks.- Integration of EPON and WiMAX.- Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network (WOBAN).- V Deployments.- Point-to-Point FTTx.- Broadband Access Networks.