Prospects for Extended Reach PONs

Review of CIPS Optical Broadband Working Group Activities

Fred Leonberger

MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems

 CIPS Optical Broadband Working Group
Industrial Group Members

JDSU Motorola Alphion Nokia

BT Telecom Italia NeoPhotonics

MIT Collaborators

Rajeev Ram, Thomas Rand-Nash, Rich Roth, Randy Kirchain

Additional Contributors

Corning Luminent Vitesse UPC

Novera Intune Verizon ADC
Cisco Broadcom KAIST Ovum
AT&T Enablence Infinera
UC Berkeley Lightwave Research Alcatel-Lucent
BinOptics PhoXtal Telefonica
 Outline

• Drivers, Barriers and Actions for Extended

Reach PONs
– Future GPON
– Long reach PON
• Key component issues
• CapEx and OpEx modeling results
 GPON: Today’s Advanced PON

2.4 Gbps shared by

32 users (20km)
64 users (10km)
Small ONT
Businesses 10-100 Mbps
ONT

2.4 Gbps out service rates

1.2 Gbps in
Splitter 2 3
Splitter
ONT
ONT

ONT

4 ONT
Splitter
3
2 ONT

OLT 1 1
ONT
Splitter
20 km reach 4

Time Division Multiplexing

 Technology Challenges: Future GPON
DRIVERS BARRIERS ACTIONS

• Cost reduction • Scaling of discrete components vs • Implement cost-effective

• Greater number of users maturity of integrated solutions blocking TFF technology
GENERIC

• Lower cost, higher volume

components • Low cost, higher performance
• Forward compatibility integration
- blocking filters
- increased address space
• Reach extension •New optical amplifier technology for • SOA technology for GPON
AMPLIFIED

• Increased number of backward compatibility wavelength plan. Wider

splits/customers - 1310, 1490nm temperature
• Low cost remote OLT

• Overlay additional services and/or •Tighter wavelength control on lasers •Deploy fiber with low 1400-nm
PONs (40nm to 20nm) loss
CWDM

•Utilization of additional upstream •Develop low-cost CWDM lasers

wavelengths with maintenance of legacy
wavelengths

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 Challenges for Advanced SOAs

• Lower noise figure

• Reduced temperature dependence
– Coolerless operation
• Higher power
• Reduced polarization dependence
• Realization of advanced structures
– Quantum dots
• Where to place the amplifier
 MIT Development of High-Power SOAs
Dr Paul W. Juodawlkis, MIT Lincoln Labs

1-cm-long InGaAsP

Power (mW) Gain (dB)

Direct 1100 18.2

Fiber- 630 13
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 Long-Reach PON Architecture

Metro Core

Metro Edge

Optical Amplifier

LR-PON
Optical Access
GPON Network

100 km reach
1000:1 splitters

Trade CapEx for OpEx: Fund edge components by closing down COs
 Long Reach PON
DRIVERS BARRIERS ACTIONS

• Lower network capital and operating • Wide dynamic range, high speed burst- • Establish trade-off between Network
cost mode receivers CapEx/OpEx savings and increased
– eliminate central offices - 10 Gbps burst-mode electronics ONU/OLT (& fiber) costs
- Low-cost 10G,100km transmitters
• Flexible • Develop models and examine
– multi-protocol compatible • Burst-mode compatible optical amplifiers feasibility of 10Gbps burst-mode
- EDFA consumes video overlay electronics
– dynamic bandwidth allocation
- traffic dependent gain - OMCI for pre-calc.
- SOA power + NF insufficient (?) • Establish limiting cost of 10Gbps
• Customer coverage transmit approaches
• Incompatible with GPON Transmission
- extended reach for rural customers Control Protocol
- ( 254 address space ) • Establish performance limits to SOA
• Increased network capacity - inefficient upstream polling power + NF
• Network reliability
• Difficult to project OpEx for new
• Explore amplified, hybrid TDM/WDM
architectures
PON

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 GPON: 10G Burst Mode Electronics
Function Bandwidth Compensation Time Dynamic Timing Jitter Tech
(Gpbs) Range (dB) (ps)

NTT TIA+LA+CD 10.3 <100 16.5 250nm

2007 R SiGe
BiCMOS

NTT CDR 10.3 1 bit 2.4/12 250nm

2008 SiGe
BiCMOS

NTU CDR 10 5 bit 15 90nm

2008 CMOS
U Ghent 2008 TIA 9.8 4.5 ns 12.2 250nm
SiGe
BiCMOS
to metro node LR-PON: Migration from GPON

LR-ONU
backhaul

GPON GPON GPON GPON

GPON –ONUs with blocking filters

Local
Exchange Optical NTE to simplify ONU upgrade

Cable
chamber

Fibre lean cable back towards

Exchange
GPON-ONU

GPON-ONU

GPON-ONU
LR-ONU

GPON-ONU
LR-ONU
GPON-ONU
 Modeling Activity Overview

Demand Central Office Component

Demographics Siting Costs
Network
CapEx

Technological Network Splitter Network Labor

Constraints Constraints Siting Design Costs

Network
OpEx
Operating Fiber Plant Resource
Context Siting Costs

Network Model Network Design Network Cost

Inputs Model Models
 OpEx Involves Multiple Parameters
Network Components: Model Input Parameters:
Intrinsic Failure Modes
ONT
Failure Mode FIT Rate Data
Fiber Material Repair/Replace Costs

Splitters Extrinsic Failure Modes

Observed FIT Rate Data
OLT
Man-hours to Repair/Replace
Connectors Resource Costs
Power Costs
Splices
Rents
Non-OLT Central Office Administrative Labor

Industry Data (Bottom-up)

Field Data (Top-Down)
 Base Case vs. LR-PON:

Subs Passed 2.25 Mil / 125,000

High / Low Density: (100 km x 100 km region)
Penetration: 30%
OLT Tx Power (dBm): 0
ONT Rx Sens (dBm): -28 APD
Amplification: -- EDFA EDFA
Data Rate (Gbps): 2.5 2.5 2.5
Splitter Strategy: 32 512 1024
Muliplexing: TDM
Total Reach (km): 25 100 88
Central Offices
3/4 0/0 0/0
High / Low Density:
Base Case vs. LR-PON CapEx per Sub:
High Density / High Data Demand
Base Case vs. LR-PON OpEx per Sub:
High Density / High Data Demand