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San Leandro Commercial Broadband Strategy <br />phone lines, and demodulates incoming analog signals into <br />digital. <br />Overbuilders Building excess capacity. In this context, it involves investment <br />in additional infrastructure project to provide competition. <br />PON Passive Optical Network: A Passive Optical Network consists of <br />an optical line terminator located at the Central Office and a set <br />of associated optical network terminals located at the customer's <br />premise. Between them lies the optical distribution network <br />comprised of fibers and passive splitters or couplers. In a PON <br />network, a single piece of fiber can be run from the serving <br />exchange out to a subdivision or office park, and then individual <br />fiber strands to each building or serving equipment can be split <br />from the main fiber using passive splitters / couplers. This <br />allows for an expensive piece of fiber cable from the exchange <br />to the customer to be shared amongst many customers thereby <br />dramatically lowering the overall costs of deployment for fiber <br />to the business (FTTB) or fiber to the home (FTTH) <br />applications. <br />Rights -of -Way Legal rights of passage over land owned by another. Carriers <br />and service providers must obtain rights -of -way to dig trenches <br />or plant poles for cable systems, and to place wireless antennae. <br />Router An intelligent network device that goes one step beyond <br />bridging by converting address -based protocols that describe <br />how packets move from one place to another. In practice, this <br />generally comes down to translating between IP addresses and <br />MAC addresses for data flowing between your local network <br />and the Internet. Many people use the term interchangeably with <br />"gateway." You must enter the IP address of your router when <br />configuring network settings manually. <br />Subscribership Subscribership is how many customers have subscribed for a <br />particular telecommunications service. <br />Switched Network A domestic telecommunications network usually accessed by <br />telephones, key telephone systems, private branch exchange <br />trunks, and data arrangements. <br />T -1 The T -1 standard was introduced in 1961 in order to support a <br />bi- directional speed of 1.5 Mbps at a high quality -of- service <br />level, using the copper wires of the time. Because it is a <br />dedicated and managed circuit, its performance is usually <br />16 July 2012 TellusVenture Associates Page 70 <br />