@conference {2864, title = {Deployment of Broadband Infrastructure in the Region of Western Greece}, booktitle = {2nd IEEE/Create - net International Workshop on Deployment Models and First/Last Mile Networking, Boston, MA, USA}, year = {2005}, month = {7 October}, pages = { 588 - 593}, abstract = {This paper presents the work that is taking place in the Region of Western Greece in order to develop state-of-the-art broadband infrastructure. The current status of broadband infrastructure in the region is being analyzed and the main principles on which the deployment of the networks will be based on is being described, by presenting the Metropolitan Area Networks and the Wireless access networks that will be developed. Two case studies of such municipal networks are also presented in this paper.}, author = {Christos Bouras and Vaggelis Kapoulas and Antonios Alexiou and Vaggelis Igglesis and Mixalis Paraskevas and I Scopoulis and J Papagiannopoulos} }