Broadband deployment is a necessity nowadays. It could help each country, municipality and region to grow and offer better quality of life to the citizens. Today, the emphasis on the development of broadband networks is on fixed Fibre To The Home solutions The lessons learned from countries that are leaders in broadband penetration and Fibre To The Home deployment could be proven very useful fo...

Vision towards establishing an all fiber configuration is the motivation behind this work. With the increasing need for high capacity communication systems, Broadband sources have become a necessity. Broadband optical sources are an integral part of multichannel high speed fiber optical communication networks based on all-optical WDM and OCDM. FWM (Four-Wave Mixing) effects and SC (Super Contin...

Broadband is a general purpose technology and major enabler for building social capital (SC) by better connecting rural communities – locally, nationally and internationally with families and friends and broadening their circles of influence. The main objectives of this paper are to determine to what extent broadband connectivity and Social Networking Sites (SNS) can facilitate building and mai...