Virtualizing national broadband access infrastructure
Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, Vijay Sivaraman · 2013
Governments world-wide are recognizing the importance of residential broadband in fueling economic and social growth of the nation. Unlike privately owned networks, such public networks will provide a wholesale platform on which retail service providers (RSPs) can compete to offer their services to consumers. This creates a unique opportunity to “vir-tualize ” the wholesale access infrastructure (i.e. the fiber network) in a dynamic and agile way, allowing multiple re-tail service providers to share the infrastructure more effi-ciently, while giving users more freedom and choice in se-lecting their service mix. This poster presents our vision of how each party (user, wholesale infrastructure operator, and retail service provider) can benefit from this virtualization, how this virtualization can be achieved using software de-fined networking (SDN) techniques, and what some of the