Abstract
The three articles in this special issue focus on access and home networking communications. Unprecedented challenges in demand for access network capacity has become a cliché introductory phrase in technical papers and guest editorials (ours, not an exception) over the last decades, or as long as the span of our professional careers allows us to judge, and may well remain a common line going forward. However, the real novelty of recent years is the multitude of access network system standards, each initially motivated by a specifi c market segment. The multi-system operators (MSOs) would deploy a version of DOCSIS, whereas the telecommunication operators (Telcos), would deploy a flavor of passive optical network (PON), either G-PON or GE-PON. With the evolving capacity requirements and convergence of the copper, optical, and wireless access infrastructure, the number of available standardized systems (not only system concepts, as before) grows rapidly.
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