About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction (Imrich Chlamtac, Ashwin Gumaste and csaba A. Szabó).

PART ONE: APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES.

2. Broadband Home/Entertainment Services (Arieh Moller and  Roy Isacowitz).

3. Applications and Services to Meet Society-Related Needs (Csaba A. Szabo).

PART TWO: BUSINESS MODELS.

4. Key Legal and Regulatory Issues Affecting Community Broadband Projects in the United States (Sean Stokes and Jim Baller).

5. European Telecommunication Law and Community Networks (Giovanni Pascuzzi and Andrea Rossato).

6. Models for Public Sector Involvement in Regional and Local Broadband Projects (Gareth Hughes).

7. Customer Owned and Municipal Fiber Networks (Bill St. Arnaud).

 8. Towards Technologically and Competitively Neutral Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Infrastructure (Marvin Sirbu and Anupam Banerjee).

PART THREE: TECHNOLOGY. 

9. Backbone Optical Network Design for Community Networks (Ashwin Gumaste, Csaba A. Szab o and Imrich Chlamtac).

10. A Comparison of the Current State of DSL Technologies (Scott A. Valcourt).

11. Fiber in the Last Mile (Ashwin Gumaste,^, Nasir Ghani and Imrich Chlamtac).

12. Ethernet in the First Mile (Wael William Diab).

13. DOCSIS as a Foundation for Residential and Commercial Community Networking over Hybrid Fiber Coax (Steven Fulton, Chaitanya Godsay and Radim Bartoš).

14. Broadband Wireless Networks: a Roadmap to Emerging Trends and Standards (E. Baccarelli, M. Biagi, Raffaele Bruno, Marco Conti and Enrico Gregori).

PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES.

15. Community Networks in North America (Priya Shetty and Ashwin Gumaste).

16. European Broadband Initiatives with Public Participation (Csaba A. Szabó).

Index.