Wireline Access Working Group
The Wireline Access Working Group addresses the energy efficiency of all functions between the customer premises equipment (CPE) and edge node needed to provide broadband communication services to residential users. Topics of interest may include:
- Fiber access, including point-to-point and point-to-multipoint topologies
- Copper access solutions
- Access network architectures and protocols between CPE and edge node, including possible node consolidation of access and edge nodes enabled by long-reach access technologies
- Functions in the CPE and a more energy efficient relocation of those functions in other parts of the network (e.g., virtual home gateway)
- Functions in the access and edge nodes that are specific for the access network
- Backhauling via the wireline access network to small cells for wireless
- Optical and electronic components or subsystems required for energy efficient access networks
The following topics are not in the scope of this working group:
- Fixed radio access and mobile access solutions (covered by the Mobile Working Group)
- Satellite access
- Generic switching and routing functions (covered by the Core Switching and Routing Working Group, CS&R). The Wireline Access Working Group will reuse energy saving concepts developed by CS&R if applicable to an access node
- CPE for enterprise, because they involve technologies that are closer to CS&R and different from CPE for residential users
- Home network solutions (not in scope of the GreenTouch mission)
The objective of this working group is to achieve an improvement of the energy efficiency of a wireline access network by a factor of 100. Our research focuses on the physical layer and connectivity, but may also address application awareness if this saves energy consumed by the access network.
All GreenTouch experts interested in any of these technology areas are invited to participate in the Wireline Access Working Group – send a request to be included.
