ABSTRACT

Zet Yulius Baitanu, An Application Program for the Local Fiber Access Network Planning using the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Configuration (supervised by Zulfajri B. Hasanuddinand Rhiza S. Sadjad)

	The main purpose of this research is to develop an application software package to design and analyze the performance of a local fiber access network using the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) configuration. The study is based on the case of building a fiber connection (using the aerial cable installation) to link the region C in the Nusa Cendana University campus and the telephone central at Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, INDONESIA.
	The software package automatically computes all the factors affecting the signal quality (the Signal to Noise Ratio, SNR) such as the light source transmission power, the total losses (including the connector losses, the fiber optic losses, etc.) and the specifications of the light detector at the receiving end. The computation is to provide the link budget necessary for the network planning.
	A laboratory test of the software package has shown that the computation has complied the <berapa persen> of accuracy. The field test of the software has provided a digital map of 5851X4139 pixels, and the SNR of 25.89 dB (BER = 4.73X10-14) in average for the case study, which is complying the design requirement.