Joint ITU-T/IEEE Workshop on

Next Generation Optical

Access Systems

Physical layer requirements for

smooth migration from the
current FTTH

Hiroaki Mukai,
Mitsubishi Electric

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 PON provides FTTH economically
PON is a mainstream of FTTH
Saving the fiber cost, space and
power in comparison with P2P.
Subscribers 20km
ONU Splitter Central Office
Optical Subscriber Line
OLT
ONU
PON Saving the Saving the
32 branches fiber cost space, power
ONU
OLT
ONU
Optical Subscriber Line
MC MC

MC MC
P2P
MC MC OLT: Optical Line Terminal
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 Triple play over PON
High speed internet access
Voice over IP
Video overlay
Apartment House
Central Office

Splitter Optical Subscriber Line

OLT
Splitter WDM Network
OLT
Individual House
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RG ONU

RG : Residential Gateway
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 Evolution of the transmission
rate of access network
Large capacity of PON (e.g. Next Generation
PON) will be in demand around 2010. Next Generation
B-PON G-PON NG-PON
EPON 10G-EPON
Transmission Rate（bps）

（10G)
10G
Optical fiber （1G)
1G transmission （600M)
（150M)
FTTH service
100M
（25M)
（50M)
10M Metallic
transmission （8M) ADSL service
1M ISDN service （1.5M)

（144K)
100K
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 Next Generation PON
Currently, Next Generation PON is
under discussion.
IEEE ITU-T
Current PON
EPON (1.25G/1.25G) G-PON (2.5G/1.25G)

Next Generation PON (NG-PON)

10G-EPON NG-PON1
Asymmetric 10G/1G Overlay G-PON (2.5G/1.25G) x m
XG-PON1 (10G/2.5G x n)
Symmetric 10G/10G XG-PON2 (10G/10G)
NG-PON2
Higher rate TDM, DWDM, CDM etc.
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 NG-PON Migration
New service will drive the NG-PON
migration.
There will be both of new
subscribers and service upgrade
subscribers.
ONU

ONU OLT Legacy service

ONU
NG-PON Service upgrade
ONU
New subscriber NG-PON
NG-PON New service
OLT
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 Requirements for NG-PON

PON is expected as a cost effective

solution.
1. Equipment cost is important.
2. Installation cost is also concerned.

Co-existence with G/E-PON in the same

ODN.
1. In the age of NG-PON, a large number
of G/E-PON system will be already
installed.
2. Number of new service subscribers will
increase gradually.
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 Co-existence with current PON
OLT ADD scenario
Addition of NG-OLT to the same ODN as legacy PON.
OLT REPLACE scenario
Replace the OLT to backward compatible NG-OLT.
1. OLT ADD scenario 2. OLT REPLACE scenario
G-ONU G-ONU

G-ONU G-OLT G-ONU G-OLT

G-ONU G-ONU

New subscriber
NG-ONU
Replace
Add NG-ONU
G-ONU NG-OLT G-ONU
G-ONU G-OLT NG-OLT
G-ONU
(+ G-OLT)
G-ONU G-ONU
Backward
NG-ONU NG-ONU compatible
Service upgrade Service upgrade
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 OLT ADD scenario
WDM approach
NG-ONU WDM
ADD WDM NG-OLT
Tx NG-PON
NG-PON
Rx Downstream: WDM
WDM G-OLT/NG-OLT Rx BCDR MAC
MAC Tx
Splitter
G-ONU WDM WDM G-OLT
Rx Upstream: Tx PON
PON
WDM G-ONU/NG-ONU MAC
MAC Tx Rx BCDR

Synchronization
is required!
TDMA approach
NG-ONU WDM ADD WDM
Tx
NG-OLT

Rx NG-PON
NG-PON Downstream:
Rx BCDR MAC
MAC Tx WDM G-OLT/NG-OLT
Splitter WDM G-OLT
G-ONU WDM
Rx Upstream: Tx PON
PON
TDMA G-ONU/NG-ONU MAC
MAC Tx Rx BCDR

G-OLT/ONU : Legacy OLT/ONU

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BCDR : Burst CDR
 OLT REPLACE scenario
WDM NG-OLT
WDM
WDM approach Tx
NG-PON
Rx BCDR MAC

NG-ONU WDM
Tx PON
Rx Downstream:
NG-PON MAC
WDM G-OLT/NG-OLT Rx BCDR
MAC Tx

Splitter WDM G-OLT

G-ONU WDM
Tx PON
PON
Rx Upstream:
WDM G-ONU/NG-ONU MAC
MAC Tx
Rx BCDR Replace

WDM NG-OLT
WDM Tx
TDMA approach
Tx NG-PON
NG-ONU WDM /PON
BCDR
Rx Downstream: MAC
NG-PON
WDM G-OLT/NG-OLT Rx BCDR
MAC Tx
Splitter WDM G-OLT
G-ONU WDM
Tx PON
PON
Rx Upstream:
TDMA G-ONU/NG-ONU Rx BCDR MAC Replace
MAC Tx

G-OLT/ONU : Legacy OLT/ONU

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BCDR : Burst CDR
 Migration scenario comparison

Migration Co-existence Comments Evaluation

OLT WDM WDM which combines and splits NG- OK!
ADD PON and legacy PON needs to be
equipped at day one.
TDMA Individual G-OLT and NG-OLT need NG!
to be synchronized each other.
Technically difficult.
OLT WDM NG-OLT requires also Tx and Rx for NG!
REPLACE legacy PON.
More expensive than “OLT REPLACE
and TDMA approach”.
TDMA No technical problem. OK!

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Requirements for physical layer
Wavelength allocation will be different
depending on the NG-PON migration
scenario.

With “OLT ADD & WDM approach”, only

C/L band are available for NG-PON
wavelength allocation.

With “OLT REPLACE & TDMA approach”,

O-band is also available for NG-PON
wavelength allocation. It helps the cost
reduction of optics.
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 Wavelength allocation
OLT ADD and WDM approach
ITU-T Enhancement band (option 1)
G.984.5 NGA Enhancement band (option 2)

OLT REPLACE and TDMA approach

Upstream Downstream
IEEE PR10/PR20
10G-EPON
PR30

Upstream Downstream Video

G-PON Narrow
Reduced
EPON Regular
1260 1280 1300 1320 1340 1360 1480 1500 1520 1540 1560 1580 1600

O-band E-band S-band C-band L-band

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 Cost of optics is important
In the age of NG-PON, there still remains
the green field.
For green field, co-existence is not a
matter, reduction of the equipment cost is
important.
Brown field G-ONU
G-ONU NG-OLT
G-ONU
Legacy service
Add NG-ONU

G-ONU
G-ONU NG-OLT
Replace G-ONU
NG-ONU
New service
Green field NG-ONU
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 Conclusion

NG-PON should be a cost efficient solution.

The cost related to physical layer is dominant in
PON system.
For cost reduction, “OLT REPLACE & TDMA”
approach has advantage. It enables the use of
O-band for upstream.
Common specification between ITU-T and
IEEE will encourage the cost reduction of
optics.

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