Infrastructure Construction Waves

 Increase Long Haul Capacity via Fiber Deployments

1994  Inter-connect Central Offices and Headends with Fiber
2001  Convert Central Offices to DSL
 Convert Cable Headends to Support Data Services & Telephone

2000  Extend the Reach of DSL into Neighborhoods

2005  Install Wi-Fi into Muni Areas that can Benefit from Wireless

 Extend Fiber into Neighborhoods

2004
 Upgrade Central Offices & Headends to Serve True Broadband
2010  Convert Central Offices to Handle Voice over IP
 Install Fiber to the Home in All New Developments
 Retrofit Existing Edge Network Infrastructure to Fiber to the Home

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Implications - Economic Development and Growth

 Businesses Seeking Sites Can’t Consider Locations

Without High Speed Services at Competitive Rates.
 Knowledge Workers Demand Connectivity.
 Businesses w/ Knowledge Workers Want Them to
Telecommute.
 Rural Communities can Compete Better w/ Urban
Centers. Networks can Provide Access to Education,
Healthcare & Jobs.
 Community Service Organizations Often can’t Access
or Afford Broadband Services. New Business Models
Can Provide It.
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 Today’s Network

The existing infrastructure has value, but is limited

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 The Emerging Network

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Fiber to the User Technologies

PON - Passive Optical Networks

+ High Bandwidth
C.O + Standardized ITU G.983.3
+ Passive and flexible cable plant
+ Low Operations cost
+ All services over one fiber
+ Low fiber plant cost

Point to Point
C.O
+ Hi Bandwidth
- High Fiber Plant cost because of point to
point configuration of fiber pairs.

Active Star
+ High bandwidth
C.O
- High Operations and maintenance cost
- High cost of outside plant electronics

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 What are PONs, BPONs, and GPONs?
 Passive Optical Networks (PONs) Attributes
 Fiber Access Technology with no active elements (i.e. electronic elements
that require no power) in the outside plant.
 Uses Passive optical splitters to distribute traffic to the customers.
 Consists of an Optical Line Terminator (OLT) located at the CO and many
Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) located at the customer’s premise.
 Broadband PON (BPON) Attributes
 Based on mature ITU-T G.983 series standards
 Provides up to 1.2Gbps Downstream and 622 Mbps Upstream capacities
 Provides a separate wavelength for downstream video transmission
 Gigabit Capable PON (GPON) Attributes
 Based on ITU-T G.984 series standards that are in progress
 Provides up to 2.5 Gbps capacities for both Downstream and Upstream
 Provides more efficient transport for data traffic

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PON standards

 FSAN - Full Service Access Network is an organization for

standardizing APON, BPON, and GPON in ITU-T G.983.x
 FSAN composed of major telco operators worldwide
 Standards have been written and are mature
 Enhancements continue to be made
 Standardized products have begun to enter market

 IEEE - Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) study group is currently

working on standardizing EPON
 Standards work is ongoing
 Initial draft planned by end of 2003
 Comprised primarily of vendors with some operator
participation

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 ONT Triplexer Module - Key BPON Enabling Technology

G983.3 Optical System

 1480-1550 nm - 622 Mb/s down
 1310 nm -155 Mb/s up
 1550 nm – RF Video Overlay 1550-1560 nm
Analog PIN

 46-870 MHz Video Rx Primary Thin film WDM

• Reflect/pass 1550-1560 nm
 Low Form Factor: < 2” X 3” block 1480-1500 nm
• Transmit/pass 1480-1500 1310 nm Laser LD
block 1550-1560 nm
 Power Consumption: < 1W • Transmit /pass 1260-1360 nm
Secondary Thin film WDM
• Reflect/pass 1480-1500 nm
block 1550-1560 nm
• Transmit /pass 1260-1360
nm
Digital PIN-TIA
(622 /155 Mb/s)

Single mode
Pigtail

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What is BPON FTTU capability?
4-6+GBps
This is Broadband!
Upstream Downstream
1260 nm 1360 nm 1480 nm 1500 nm 1550 nm 1560 nm

Voice and Voice and Data

Reserve Video
Data @155 Mbps at 622 Mbps
42 MHz 550 MHz 860 MHz

Analog TV Digital TV HDTV

Services Services VOD

1000Mbps

100Mbps 155 Mbps

26Mbps Upstream
56kbps 1 - 1.5Mbps (10 times
DOCSIS 2.0)
Dial-Up DSL/Cable VDSL 100BaseT Gigabit BPON FTTH
Modem Modem Ethernet Ethernet

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 7340 Fiber to the User (BPON)
Central Office or Fiber Passive
Remote Terminal Distribution Outside Plant
Internet AMS up to 20 km (12.4 mi.)
FTTH
IP / ATM 7340
Etherne P-OLT Splitters
t/ATM 1,490 nm 622 Mb/s
G6 Voice IP
FTTH
/ ATM
Gateway 1,310 nm 155 Mb/s
GR303
TR08 FTTB
T1 CAS 1,550 nm
MGCP 7340 7340
V-OLT H-ONT
PSTN
Video

7340
Voice, Data and Video (bi-directional) for 32 subscribers over a single fiber per G983.3
B-ONT
Coarse WDM supports three wavelengths —
1,490 nm – Downstream Voice and Data at 622 Mb/s
1,310 nm – Upstream Voice and Data at 155 Mb/s
1,550 nm - Dedicated wavelength for RF Digital/Analog video

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 Alcatel 7340 FTTU System Key Points
7340 Optical line terminator (P-OLT)
Common elements with 7300 ASAM
 Alarm and Control Unit (ACU)
 Redundant Network Interface
 OC-3 ATM network interface
 OC-12 ATM network interface (future)
 1000baseT GigE LT (future)
 HCL PON PLT2-H (future)
 OC3-LT 4 Port (future)
 IP Services Module (future)
18 PON Line Interface Modules
• 2 PONs/Slot 7340 P-OLT
• 1152 subs per shelf
• Greater than 10 Gb/s backplane
• NEBS 3 compliant
• Up to 3 P-OLTs per 7- foot rack

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 Alcatel 7340 FTTU System Key Points

7340 Optical network terminator (H-ONT)

 optimized for residential service
 Full Service (4 POTS, Ethernet, HPNA and
Video)
 environmentally hardened
 13” x 13” x 5”
 Separate customer and telco access areas
 Mounts to the outside of the home
 UL and FCC compliant
 locally powered with battery backup
 Uninterruptible power source
– 120 VAC input
– 12 VDC output - low voltage
– eight hour battery backup

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 Enabling New Services Today and Tomorrow
 Supports bundled services — voice, data, video
 up to four POTS systems with lifeline support
 very high speed data (10/100Base-T or HPNA interfaces)
 video (CATV initially, DBS or baseband as alternatives)
POTS
 Flexible bandwidth use
POTS
 more than 20 Mb/s available per subscriber on average
 higher bursting rates possible POTS

 supports service level agreements (SLAs)

POTS
 efficiently carries IP and MPEG payloads
 Supports service requirements of tomorrow HPNA
ONT
 easily accommodates emerging services
 ONT ready at initial deployment; flexibility via software 10/100Base-T

 ONTs planned for several niche applications — SOHO,

MDU, MSE, MTU CATV
or DBS

RJ-11
RJ-45
UPS Coax

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 General Bandwidth G6 Voice Gateway
Global Carrier Class Architecture
 Voice over broadband gateway and ATM switch
 Fully Redundant; NEBS and ETSI Compliant
 Pooled System Resources
 IP Routing (future)

Scalability
• High Bandwidth Backplane
• 5 Gig Switch Fabric
• 3,360 simultaneous calls with typical over
subscription of 4 to 1
Standards Support
• AAL2 BLES – Broadband Loop Emulation Service
 ATM Forum and DSL Forum standard for Class 5
derived VoDSL using ATM
• MGCP/H.248/SIP (future)
 Service Providers are planning to migrate their
network to support advanced protocols in an IP
environment
 G6 supports the NGN architecture

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 Chelan Installation

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GPON and Fiber Standards Evolution

06/2003 RBOC Consortium (JPC) Selects BPON as the technology for Fiber
To The Premises (FTTP)
03/2002 G.983.1 Amendment 2 - BPON for 1.244 Mbps Downstream and
Security Enhancements
2002 G.983.1 Standards based BPON deployments in large quantity for
data services, Introduction of G.983.3 compliant BPON with full
triple play services.
06/2002 G.983.6 - OMCI for Survivability features
06/2002 G.983.2 Version 2 - Expanded and Revised OMCI features
01/2002 G.983.5 - Survivability Enhancements
11/2001 G.983.1 Amendment 1 - BPON with 622 Mbps Upstream rate
11/2001 G.983.7 - OMCI for Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment
11/2001 G.983.4 - Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment Enhancements
03/2001 G.983.3 - WDM enhancements to allow RF video overlay on BPON
2000 G.983.2 - ONT management and control interface(OMCI) specification
10/1998 G.983.1 - ATM based BPON, basic architecture, physical and TC
layer
1996 G.982 - STM PON to support services upto ISDN primary rate
speeds
1995 FSAN Group is formed and work on PON standardization starts
1980s~1995 Proprietary PON system based on TDM technology.

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GPON and Fiber Standards Evolution (Contd.)

GPON is the Ultimate Target

2006~2010 Migration of BPON/EPONs to GPONs

2004 Standards compliant GPON field trials
04/2004 G.984.4 - GPON ONT Managemetn and Control Interface
(OMCI)specification
10/2003 G.984.3 - GPON Transmission Convergence layer specification
03/2003 G.984.2 - GPON Physical layer specifications
03/2003 G.984.1 - General Characteristics of Gigabit-Capable PON
1998~2002 BPON Technology Standardization and Deployment.

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 GPON Benefits
 Supports Gigabit or above data rates on the PON
 Optimizes the physical layer for
 Higher data rates for BW intensive applications (e.g. IP Video)
 Greater Distance - reach more customers from the CO
 More Splits - Reach more customers from a single PON
 Offers a more bandwidth efficient protocol for data centric
services
 Has the capability to support multiple services in their native
formats.
 ATM
 Packet (e.g. Ethernet)
 TDM

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 Why Not GPON Now?

 GPON expected to take another 2-3 years before reaching

BPON comparable maturity. BPON is a Mature Technology
Standard with functionalities available in robust silicone
components.
 The capacity offered by BPON is adequate for the
foreseeable future
 GPON has significant overlap with BPON - ensuring easier
migration when the time is right
 No change in video overlay network
 Same wavelength allocation
 Same fiber distribution network architecture
 Similar TDM/TDMA technique, Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment

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 BPON to GPON - How Alcatel’s FTTU Platform
evolves
 Alcatel fully supports a migration from the current PON standard ( 622/155
BPON) to GPON
 GPON will enhance and totally support future very high bandwidth service
delivery models
 GPON technology validation (protocol chips and optics) underway along with
reference design – Alcatel Research and Innovation (R&I) organization in
Antwerp, Belgium is presently involved in the development of this technology.
 Alcatel’s strategy for PON data rates is to implement ITU-T G984 technology
supporting the higher data rates of 1.25G and 2.5G in the downstream and
155M, 622M, 1.5G and 2.5G in the upstream.
 The 7340 OLT will support multiple line interface types and a mix of BPON
and GPON interface cards.
 From preliminary work, cost and complexity to build a GPON system is
marginal compared to a BPON system.
 Current schedule is to introduce proof of concept in late 2004 with an initial
product offering in 2005

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