FTTH Conference 2010

ITU-T Standardization: from G-PON to 10G XG-PON

Review of G-PON standards

and their application

Yupeng (Roc) Xiong

Huawei Technologies
ITU-T Q2/15 contributor

Lisbon, 25 February 2010

 Outline

Background
Core G-PON system standards
Ongoing improvements
Major applications

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Background: Older PON systems

ITU-T Q2/15 has a well established

program of PON system development
1996: G.982 – an early STM-PON
1998: G.983 – the ATM-PON system
2001: G.983.3,4,5 – the B-PON system
B-PON was strongly influenced by the
B-ISDN (ATM) network architecture
Not so relevant looking forward
Optics and microelectronics market changing
Explosion of Internet required more bandwidth
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Background: Motivations for G-PON

In 2001, Q2/15 began G-PON project

Key requirements
At least 1 Gb/s capacity
Full service (including legacy) support
Oriented towards IP services
Cost effective and FCAPS managable
Key “non-requirements”
Compatibility with B-PON not required

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Core G-PON requirements (G.984.1)

System parameters Service parameters

Rates >1Gb/s Voice
A range supported, to POTS, leased lines,
permit economical options special services
Efficient use of BW Data
Avoid linecodes 10, 100, 1000Base-T
DBA supported Ethernet
Environmental Other interfaces possible
OLT indoors Video
ONU indoor or outdoor IP-video over data path
Protection possible RF-video overlay
50ms recovery

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Core G-PON PMD layer (G.984.2)

The PMD spec provided many options for

implementers to find the optimum
Downstream rates: 1.2G and 2.5G
Upstream rates: 155M, 622M, 1.2G, and 2.5G
Loss Budgets: 20, 25, and 30 dB
Distance
20km physical reach
Support for power leveling
Makes burst mode reception easier
FEC option
Loss budget / ONU optics cost down
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 Core G-PON TC layer (G.984.3)

A lightweight system that adapts both ATM and Ethernet to

the PON’s TDMA nature
Downstream frame
Bandwidth Map (PCB) – to manage the upstream
ATM partition – to support legacy services
GEM partition – to support packet services
Upstream burst transmission
PL-OAM, DBA, and protection included from the begining
PMF-TC Downstream

P-Frame Interval P-Frame Interval

PCBd PCBd PCBd

Payload n Payload n+1
n n+1 n+2

TP-Frame = 125 uS "Pure" ATM cells TDM & Data Fragments

Section over GFP Section

N * 53 bytes
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Core G-PON management (G.984.4)

Just making a data link is not enough for

an access system
Operators need a full operations support
system to provision, monitor, and troubleshoot
the access network
The ONU Management and Control
Interface (OMCI) provides this
OMCI was built on B-PON experience
Inherited much of the interoperability progress
that was made with B-PON systems

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 Improve: G-PON Lite

The first round of G-PON recommendations were

ratified in 2004
These served as a basis for early implementers and
deployment
As the market matured, many of the options
included in the first round were found to be
extraneous
Q2/15 has revised and narrowed the
recommendations to reflect the market
PHY layer:
Rate: 2.5G down, 1.2G up
Loss budget: 28 dB
TC layer:
ATM partition dropped
Power leveling deprecated
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Improve: Ready for XG-PON (G.984.5)

Operators expect that G-PON will be widely

deployed by the time XG-PON will come
It is important that the evolution to XG-PON will be as
easy as possible
G.984.5 prepares G-PON for this by
Specifying the blocking filter for G-PON ONU Rx’s
Specifying reduced upstream bands for ONU Tx’s
X/S

22 dB Narrow
G-PON

Reduced G-PON
7 dB

Original G-PON Spectrum

G-PON Wavelength Wavelength
(nm) (nm)
1441 1450 1480 1500 1530 1539 1260 1290 1300 1320 1330 1360

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Improve: Reach extenders (G.984.6)

The basic PON link is good for 20km

This reaches 90% of customers in the US market (a relatively
sparse population density)
Extending the reach can be one part of a strategy to reach
the “last 10%”
G.984.6 creates the specifications for mid-span reach
extenders
Total distance: 60km
Total loss budget: 56 dB

ONU
UNI Mid-Span
R/S ODN OTL OLT
Extender
S'/R' R'/S' S/R SNI
ONU
R/S
UNI

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Improve: OMCI and Interoperability

The OMCI is what turns raw bandwidth into

billable services
G.984.4 has been constantly improved to add
new services and interfaces to the PON system
VDSL – to enable FTTnode and FTTB
MoCA – in-home networking
IGMP management – IPTV support
Optical line supervision – to reduce Ops costs
Interoperability has been a focus of Q2/15, in
conjunction with the FSAN Interop group and the
Broadband Forum
Nine test events so far
Nearly perfect plug-and-play results achieved
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Standards in Action: Implementation
Leading System vendors Major chip vendors

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 Major Application: Verizon FiOS
Small Businesses Office Parks

ONT ONT
Copper
Residential Distribution
ONT
ONT FTTP Overlay
Small Businesses

SAI ONT FTTP Full Build

FDH FDH
|X| ONT
Circuit ONT
Switch ONT
ONT
Copper
Feeder ONT
 FiOS Available in 16 States & Washington DC ONT
New
 12M HHs Passed YE2008; 18M HHs Passed 2010 OLT Develop
ment
 BPON Deployment Starting in 2004
 GPON Introduced in 4Q 2007
FiOS Internet Customers (M) FiOS TV Customers (M)
2.4 1.6

5.7 1.2
1.8

1.2 0.8

0.6 0.4

0.0 0.0
4Q06 1Q07 2Q07 3Q07 4Q07 1Q08 2Q08 3Q08
4Q06 1Q07 2Q07 3Q07 4Q07 1Q08 2Q08 3Q08
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 Major Application: Europe

Fast emerging GPON market

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Worldwide Deployment of G-PON
GPON commercial region
GPON pre-commercial region
Non start

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G-PON enables network simplification

Backbone CR … CR CR … CR CR … CR

10GE k*10GE k*10GE

Service POP BRAS SR MSE BRAS SR VPN PE S-GW MSE AGW

GE/10GE n*10GE n*10GE

Multi-Layer Agg.

Large Capacity AGG SW 5~10Km

Metro
m*GE/10GE OLT
n*GE PON 1~3Km
Extender CO
AN AN
Splitting
1-3Km
5~10Km
1-3Km
50~100Km
AN AN
OLT
Access 1-3Km Splitter
Splitter Splitter
1-3Km 1-3Km CO
AN AN Splitter 1~3Km 1~3Km

1-3Km 1-3Km 1~3Km

Remote area

So Far (~2008) Medium-Term (2008~2010) Long-Term (2010~2016)

Large AN Sites OLT Centralized PON Extender for Remote Area
Multi-Layer Structure Single-Layer 10GE Aggregation 3-Layer Network Architecture
Multi Service GW Convergence Fixed-Mobile POP Convergence

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 Thank You!

For more information, contact

Frank Effenberger
Rapporteur Q2/15
Vice-chair, ATIS COAST-OAN
IEEE Comsoc TAOS std. liaison
feffenberger<at>huawei.com

Lisbon, 25 February 2010