FTTH: B-PON, GPON, EPON

Don McCullough
VP Marketing
Ericsson
May 9, 2007
 Technology Choices for the Future

You are never too thin, never too rich and

You never have enough bandwidth.
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PON Agenda

Market Drivers

Technology

Q&A

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Acronyms

PON: Passive Optical Network

– FTTH: Fiber to the Home
– B-PON: Broadband PON
– GPON: Gigabit PON
– EPON: Ethernet PON
– ODN: Optical Distribution Network

PON System components
– OLT: Optical Line Terminal
– ONT: Optical Network Terminal
– WDM: Wave Division Multiplexing

Digital Subscriber Line
– ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
– VDSL: Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line
– DSLAM: Digital Subscriber Line Access Module

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Market Drivers for GPON

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What’s Causing the Need for Speed?

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Copper to Fiber: Circuit to Packet
Steep traffic increases in access & aggregation required

Bandwidth:
• From 1.5 Mbps to 1 Gbps
Gbps

IP Services

Mbps

TDM/ATM

Circuit to Packet
• TDM/ATM to IP

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Law of Physics: BW versus Reach

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Shortening Copper Access Loops
POTS 18Kft loops

Dial up
DLC 12Kft loops
Class 5 switch

ADSL 12Kft loops 1.5 – 3.0

Mbps
PON DSLAM
VDSL2 <4Kft
20-50
Mbps
PON
FTTH 100
Mbps
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PON Technology Comparison Chart

GPON B-PON E-PON

Gigabit-capable PON Broadband (ATM)
PON
Standard ITU-T G.984 ITU G.983 IEEE803.2ah

Protocol GPON Encapsulated ATM Ethernet

Mode (GEM) supports:

Ethernet

TDM

ATM
Speed 2.5 Gbps Downstream 622 Mbps Downstream 1.25 Gbps Symmetric
1.2 Gbps Upstream 155 Mbps Upstream
Maximum 64 users 32 users 64 Users
split ratio

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Bandwidth Demand Rising
• MetroEthernet access
for business

• Government, schools,
community access

• Triple Play to existing

homes

• New home with value

added communications

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 PON Trends World-wide
GPON
BPON
GPON/
EPON GE-PON

GPON/
EPON

GPON
BPON GPON GPON/
GPON EPON

GPON
GPON

GPON has the potential to become the global standard

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PON – A Multi $B growth market

Global PON Equipment Revenues

2500

2000

1500 GPON
M$

EPON
1000 BPON
500

0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Source: Infonetics

GPON displacing EPON/BPON and accelerating Fiber roll-outs

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PON Cost Factors
Full Service Access Network (FSAN)
Split ratio ONT
OLT cost efficiency 65% TO 855 of
network cost
Video
ONT
GPON 2.5G
EPON 1.25G

Voice
OLT
GPON 1.25G
EPON 1.25G

Data C.O.
ONT
Speed
More subscribers/PON
Higher speed services/sub

Access systems face extreme price pressure

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PON Competitors

North America
Rest of World

– Alcatel-Lucent – Alcatel-Lucent
– Ericsson – Huawei
– Tellabs – Ericsson
– Motorola – ZTE
– Calix – Hitachi
– ECI
– Nokia-Siemens

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PON Technology
B-PON & GPON Standards
ITU-T G.983 & G.984

Initiated by Full Service Access Network (FSAN)
– Carrier lead: BT, ATT, NTT, TI, FT, DT, etc

Comprehensive specification
– PHY layer to OAM&P

Interoperability initiatives
– BPON

NTT 03/2004, SBC 09/2004, Globalcomm 06/2005
– GPON

05/2006 at Telcordia – 10 participants

09/2006 in San Jose, CA U.S.A.

12/2006 at ITU Conference in Hong Kong

May 7, 2007 at FSAN Lannion France

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EPON Standard: IEEE 802.3ah

IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM)

is an amendment to IEEE 802.3

Comprised of P2P and P2MP (EPON)

Additions to the 802.3 standard for compliance
with architecture:
– Multi-point control protocol (MPCP) - timeslot allocation
– OAM - Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)
for subscriber access networks
– Shared-Medium Emulation (SME) or P2P Emulation sub-layer

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ITU PON Network Architecture

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 ONT
B-PON or GPON Solution
Voice
B-PON Fiber-To-The-Home

Class 5
622 Mbps @ 1490nm
Switch
155 Mbps @1310nm
ATM RF @ 1550 nm
OLT

Soft Switch W
Multi Dwelling Unit
D
n Multi Tenant Unit
M

Ethernet GPON
Fiber-To-The-Business
IP Router RF 2.5 Gbps @ 1490nm
Video 1.25 Gbps @1310nm
RF @ 1550 nm
IPTV
RF video 1550nm
Video
Headend
EDFA Fiber-To-The-Curb/Node

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PON functional overview
Downstream Downstream Voice & Data
Voice & Data @ 1490 nm 1
3
1
2
ONT – Continuous TDM broadcast
1 2 3
– GPON = 2.5 Gbps
OLT 1 2 3 ONT 2
– OLT – ONT Security: AES
Up to 32 1
ONTs filters out its own data based on
2 ONT 3
3 MAC/VPI/VCI/ID from downstream TDM.
Downstream security maintained by
Downstream
encryption keys.
Video @ 1550 nm ONT V

Downstream video using a separate

OLT V ONT V wavelength
– 55-870 MHz RF ≈ 5.2 Gbps
Up to 32
V
ONT

Upstream
– GPON = 1.2 Gbps
Upstream @ 1310 nm 1
ONT – TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
1
assigned burst for bandwidth sharing
1 2 3
OLT 2 ONT 2

Up to 32
ONT 3
3

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PON OLT System

Density
– Service 24 to 120 PON ports
– 750 to 7500 Subscribers

Switching capacity
– 48 Gbps to 320 Gbps
– Concentration 5:1 to 1:1

PON OLT blades
– B-PON and GPON compatibility
– Density

Uplinks to the network
– TDM for voice
– ATM
– Ethernet GigE and 10G
*2008

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Single Family ONT

Services
– POTS
– RF Video
– IPTV
– Ethernet services

Environmental
– Indoor (North America)
– Outdoor (Rest of World)

Cost

Powering
– Locally powered
– Battery back up

B-PON or GPON or both

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OLT and ONT Interoperability

OLT and ONTs from different vendors must interoperate

– Prove standards compliance
– Lower long term cost via competition

FSAN history of interop testing
– Similar to DSL plug-fests
– B-PON and now GPON
– May at Telcordia in N.J. U.S.A.
– September in San Jose, CA U.S.A.
– December at ITU Conference in Hong Kong
– May at FSAN in Lannion France
– Going on this week

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PON Discovery & Activation Principles

1. OLT opens a discovery window granting 1 ONT

new ONTs on PON to communicate with OLT

2. New ONT sends identity and

configuration information to the OLT

OLT

ONT
3. OLT measures Round Trip Time

4. OLT assigns the new ONT an ID

and a time stamp (gate for start &
stop time) for upstream TDMA N ONT

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Multi-cast Video and IPTV Services FTTH ONT STBs
Multicast

Multicast VOD
source VOD

Multicast

Multicast
VOD
Multicast
source
Multicast
Multicast channels
channels are
are transported
transported once
once and
and
viewed
viewed by
by many
many

Point-to-point service (VOD or data) requires connectivity and bandwidth

Multicast of popular channels saves transport and bandwidth

Multicast requires 1-to-many switching in the access system

Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP) provides multicast (1:many)
switching in IP networks

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PON Components
Splitters

The optical splitter is a passive device

Splitters are a main component of PON

Depending on the light direction, this device
either splits the incoming light and distributes it
to multiple fibers or combines it onto one fiber

A variety of types are available to meet the
architectural requirements of OAN

1X2
1X16

1X4
1X32

1X8

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Other Topics in PON

Split ratios 1:32 versus 1:64

Quality of Service (QoS)

Security and Encryption

Bandwidth Sharing with Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation

Multi-Dwelling Unit ONTs

Business services

Regulation and video franchises

Management and OSS interfaces

Optical effects of RF video

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PON Future: WDM PON or 10G PON
T3/E3
Standards? Work in progress
NGN FSAN activity ATM

FR
λ1 λ2
λ1 ….λ32
Optical SAN
Network O/O

GbE
λ31 λ32
E/B/GPON
Service Voice, Internet, IPTV, SAN, etc.. OLT
Transport GPON, EPON, SDH/SONET, GbE, ESCON, etc… TDM (2G)
WDM Packet (3G)

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 Q&A
Thank You