The purpose of the Special session is to provide a forum for exchange of latest research and development results on access systems that use optics to provide true-broadband connections to fixed and mobile users. Different technologies like new TDM-PONs, WDM-PONs, Radio-over-Fibre, Free-Space-Optics and xDSL-over-fibre are being developed and competing in diverse scenarios. All scientists and engineers working in this broad area are invited to submit their research to the program of the special session. The program will include invited and contributed papers as well as poster presentations.

The suggested session topics include but are not limited to the following:

Advanced G/E-PONs WDM-PON architectures and techniques Radio-over-fibre techniques VDSL-over-fibre techniques Free-Space-Optics (FSO) Hybrid access architectures Dynamic bandwidth allocation techniques in shared optical access Techno-economic bench-marking of access solutions Fault and performance monitoring in access Communication protection and robustness Deployment field trials

Confirmed invited presentations by:

to be announced soon

Contributions announced by:

to be announced soon

Full paper submissions:

Invited speakers are cordially asked to submit the full papers (4-6 pages in electronic form, Word 6.0 or later version accompanied by a PDF version) to the ICTON Organiser, Marian Marciniak (M.Marciniak@itl.waw.pl), with a copy to the Special Session Organiser, Josep Prat (jprat@tsc.upc.edu).

Authors of the contributed papers please send your submissions (4 pages in electronic form, Word 6.0 or later version accompanied by a PDF version) to Josep Prat (jprat@tsc.upc.edu).

All authors are asked to follow ICTON submission rules available at www.itl.waw.pl/icton

Full paper due: April 30, 2007

Questions should be addressed to Josep Prat
tel: +34 93 401 6455, fax: +39 93 401 7200 e-mail: jprat@tsc.upc.edu