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Access Network Domain
The access network domain plays an important role in NGNs by connecting communications carriers and service providers with the individuals and companies they serve. While communications carriers have historically used _copper lines_ to offer phone service to individual subscribers, today _the same line_ carries high-speed broadband services such as DSL in addition to telephone signals. Carriers are also investing heavily in optical fiber as the transmission media of choice for fixed broadband access in the future due to its high-speed and stable transmission characteristics. As ubiquitous service-anytime, anywhere, anyone-becomes the norm, demand for technologies such as conventional cellular phone service and wireless LAN access is being augmented by an increasingly noticeable desire for mobile high-speed broadband service and otherwise seamless communications.
OKI provides a variety of access network solutions to meet these customer needs.

Access Network Solutions from OKI
The popularization of broadband service drives the evolution of the access network domain, with technologies such as optical fiber and wireless networking joining traditional copper wiring. Customers are increasingly demanding high performance (high speed), high reliability, and low cost in access networks as phone, Internet, and television broadcast services are provided simultaneously.
OKI offers three types of access solution to meet these customer needs.

Wireless access
This domain enjoys the highest expectations from the standpoint of ubiquitous networking. OKI offers solutions for 3G mobile networking as well as WiMAX solutions that support seamless communications and high-speed broadband service, providing both fixed and mobile access in a single system.
Optical access
This domain will be the mode of choice for fixed access in the coming years. Each of OKI's GE-PON (individual), GPON (enterprise), and COF (long-distance) solutions represents a system capable of delivering ultra-high-speed, high-reliability performance.
Copper access
This domain provides both high-speed broadband and existing phone service. OKI offers VDSL solutions that support high-speed broadband service as well as phone migration solutions that can deliver existing phone service quality as a key infrastructure even as it evolves toward an IP network.
Example Access Network Connectivity

- AGW
- Access Gateway
- BS
- Base Station
- BTS
- Base Transceiver Station
- HGW
- Home Gateway
- MC
- Media Converter
- MS
- Mobile Station
- OLT
- Optical Line Terminal
- ONU
- Optical Network Unit
- RNC
- Radio Network Controller
- SS
- Subscriber Station
- STB
- Set Top Box
Product Features
| Domain | Product name | Features |
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| Wireless | WiMAX |
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| Optical | GE-PON system GE-PON II system |
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| GPON |
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| COF |
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| Copper | VDSL |
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| Phone migration |
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Glossary
- CDM
- Code Division Multiplex : Code Division Multiplex
- CDM coding
- Code division multiplex coding
- COF
- Code Division Multiplexing on Fiber Optical access system using code division multiplexing
- GE-PON
- Gigabit Ethernet-Passive Optical Network
- GPON
- Gigabit Passive Optical Network : Gigabit passive optical network
- Wi-Fi
- Wireless Fidelity
- WiMAX
- Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access