needs of completely new infrastructures and the contribution of local administrations. In order to move the market out of this state of stagnation, a further evolution is needed in the service bundle offered to customers. Several analysts individuate in a bundle mainly based on centralized and pair-to-pair video services the key to overcome the crisis calling for a further increase in access network capacity. It is a consolidated opinion that this further evolution of carrier service offering pushes, at least in the most populated areas, a recabling of the access network by some type of fiber optics architecture. Besides bandwidth increase, the penetration of ultra-broadband connections stresses the capacity of existing copper cables to support a high number of very fast ADSLs. In many cases, copper cables deployed before the diffusion of broadband access presents a non- negligible pair-to-pair interference when ADSL is used. This phenomenon often sets a limit to the number of connections possible in a given area, depending on the quality and length of the cables [13]. Last, but not least, the need of the main carriers to reduce operational costs also drives toward a fiber-optic-based access network. As a matter of fact, optical transmission allows a completely passive access infrastructure to be implemented. Moreover, much longer spans can be realized via passive optical networks (PON), opening the possibility of a delayer- ing of the peripheral part of the network. In delayered architectures, local exchanges are almost completely eliminated in populated areas (e.g., cities), initiating the passive access network directly into the core nodes [14]. Eliminating a certain number of local exchanges further reduces OPEX, at the cost of a higher initial capital investment (CAPEX). The first important market to move in the direction of a new, fiber-based access network was Japan, where NTT (the local incumbent operator) started to deploy fiber-based access in 2003. Immediately after Japan, the U.S. market experienced a