ConTEL 2007

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Broadband Access: from Strategy to Reality

Alen Bažant
Associate Professor
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Telecommunications

Abstract:

Once recognized as the driving force in the process of information society buildup and as a major weapon against digital divide, a broadband success story has begun. Broadband access to telecommunication networks and services has been one of the key topics in modern telecommunications for a while. Although enabling technologies exist from 1980s, significant penetration of broadband in residential and business area has begun few years ago. Today the choice of broadband technologies, wireline and wireless, is huge and sometimes confusing. A search for a single optimal access scenario is still in progress, but without any success. Why? Because single optimal and universal access technology does not exist. Moreover, the technology choice is just a peak of an iceberg. Regulation and economy issues are even more limiting factors for broadband penetration.

Regardless of everlasting and omnipresent obstacles, situation with broadband access has been permanently improving, worldwide and in Croatia, too. This presentation will give a short overview of the broadband technologies of choice today. Upon the overview a present market situation of the broadband will be given with an accent on the situation in European Union and in Croatia. The standardization and regulatory issues will follow. Finally, strategy of broadband access development in Republic of Croatia will be briefly highlighted. The major goal of the presentation is to clearly emphasize and promote good ideas and initiatives leading to reality of broadband access.

Speaker's biography:

Alen Bažant received B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zagreb in 1985 and 1986. He also received M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (1990), and Ph.D. (1998) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He has been affiliated with the Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he currently holds an assistant professor position. He is a member of the Laboratory for Advanced Telecommunication Studies (LATS). Mr. Bažant is a member of IEEE and MIPRO HU.

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