WDM-PON Technology:

How it can facilitate the last mile

Olivier Couderc
Market Development Leader, France Middle East and Africa

TERENA – Amsterdam, December 2008

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Agenda

1. Market trends and requirements

Market dynamics
Market requirements
Deployment options
Standardization in progress
2. Nortel’s vision of Next Gen Access
Key Technologies and benefits
Solution Overview
3. Conclusion

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Market Dynamics
The Challenge for Service Providers

Dynamics: Bandwidth and Content

• More bandwidth hungry applications
• More devices designed to access the network
• Digital content is driving massive bandwidth demand
• Growing competition to win End user
• End users are consuming more than ever

Challenge: Overcoming the Last Mile bottleneck

High bandwidth Core Networks Bandwidth delivered to End User

Service Providers are re-evaluating their access networks strategy

and business models to remain competitive
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South Korea leads the way…

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Real Consumer demand for Higher Bandwidth

GPON

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Fiber Access Assertions

> Ethernet will be Everywhere

> Residential, Business and Backhaul services will converge to
single infrastructure
> Fiber will progressively replace copper in the access to cope with
traffic increase
> New cable laying remains the #1 cost, thus PON technologies
which optimize usage of the existing fiber are key

> But legacy TDM PON (GPON) is not Future Proof and is not well
suited to converged Residential/Business/Backhaul infrastructure

> OPEX considerations are critical in the Last Mile

NextGen Fiber Access solutions required for

continued Service Evolution and Innovation

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Next Generation Ethernet Fiber Access:
Key attributes wish list

> Operations Simplicity

> Support Converged Business/Residential services

> Highly Scalable, Deterministic Solution

> Dedicated, Point-to-point, Symmetrical Bandwidth

> In-Built Security

> Evergreen

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Fiber Access Deployment options

Point to Point ActiveRemote

Active Remote

+ Future Proof Architecture + Simple deployment model

+ Follows Telco wiring Practices + Flexibility of #Users vs Line Rate
+ Bit Rate & Protocol Independent + Bandwidth Upgradeability
In Building
Outside Cabinet

- CO Fiber Management - Shared Bandwidth

- Fiber Availability - Active electronics in OSP
- High power consumption
- Sub-Optimal Scalability

TDM PON
WDM
WDM Fiber
Fiber Access
Access
+ Simplified CO Fiber Management
+ Passive OSP Plant Solution ADVANTAGES of
+ Low power consumption P2P & TDM PON
+ Maturing Technology +
Passive Wavelength
- Shared Bandwidth (DS & US) Secure, Reach, Scalability
Router

- Real time Software Intensive No Wavelength Planning &

- Complex upgrade evolution Limited Engineering
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 Standardization Evolution

~nGE NG-PON2
Common infrastructure
High Capacity
nt
Greenfield ip me n Secure and Symmetrical
Res/Biz PON Equ ommo Native Ethernet
c s
WDM PON option Ethernet b e u ch a
m
as ssible
Point2Point
~GE over WDM
Ethernet po
NG-PON1 incl.
Capacity

long-reach option
?
WDM option to ca le
s s
enable to overlay P ON
M
multiple G / XGPONs Can TD
<100Mb
G-PON XG-PON
(Up: 2.5G to 10G,
Down: 10G)
GE-PON

Now ~2010 ~2015

WDM PON current availability sets a new standards path!

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FSAN NG-PON Workshop

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Nortel’s vision of Next Gen Access

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 Fiber Access Made SIMPLE

Central Office Flexibility Outside Plant Simplicity End User Performance

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Residential
Residential Multi-Dwelling
Single Dwellings

Wireless Backhaul

Small Medium Businesses

Central Office OLT Wavelength Filter Subscriber ONT/ONU

What matters in FTTH?
• To build for the long term, especially on the outside plant construct
• To make operations easier
• Automatic wavelength selection upon activation
• Dedicated and Symmetrical P2P or P2MP bandwidth
• Consistent Operations and Engineering methodologies  
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Nortel’s Ethernet Access
Service Provider Benefits

> Provides a future proof point to point construct with a

secure bi-directional wavelength per customer
> Provides a simple deployment and OPEX friendly
architecture
• passive splitter, Colorless ONTs, single fibre working

> Service Velocity - Tailored to scale for Residential

and/or Business services on a per user basis

The future of fibre Access, available today

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Fiber Access Overview
WDM PON Æ Key Values ONT

λ1 Residential
100M λ, 1GE λ and  Higher Line Rates 
32 λ and Higher densities in the future

λ 2
ONT
OLT

WDM
Wireless BH
CO Filter
Service Terminal with   Low Cost Passive Filter λ n
Packet Processing in outside plant

OLT: Optical Line Terminal
ONT: Optical Network Termination
WDM: Wavelength Division Multiplexing
ONU Business ‐ Multi‐Tenant Unit

Simple Engineering  ‐ Infrastructure independent service evolution
& Deployment ‐ “Plug & Play” colourless optics at end use
Flexibility ‐ Point‐to‐point and point‐to‐multi‐point
connectivity
Performance  ‐ Symmetrical bandwidth (upstream/downstream)
‐ Dedicated wavelength/ bandwidth per end user
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WDM Fiber Access
Enabling Technology

Automatic Wavelength Locking

Spectral
Slicing Colorless
Laser
BLS
λ
Broadband Light
Spectrum before locking Spectrum after locking
Source

Wavelength
Athermalized Array
Router
Waveguide Grating 1530nm 1560nm 1530nm 1560nm

(AAWG)

Identical, Colourless ONUs using low-cost lasers

•Elimination of high cost wavelength-specific lasers
•Low inventory management cost

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 Ethernet Access 1100 Portfolio Summary
OLT ONT EMS
Ethernet Access Service Ethernet Access Ethernet Access
Terminal Residential/Business Unit Manager 1100
• Alarm & Event
Management
• Configuration
Management
• Provisioning
Management
• System/PON Port
• Backup & Restore
EAST 1100 EARU 1112 • Statistics Management
• Software Version
• 13 slot Chassis • Indoor Residential Design Management
• Upto 8 Service Slots • Stylish, Compact and Environmentally
• 5 Slots reserved for Commons friendly design
• Redundant switch fabrics • Low power consumption
• Network Interface/ Switch Units • Installed vertically or horizontally with Remote Nodes
• Up to 8 Network Interfaces available cradle Wavelength Passive Filter
• Mixed Access technology support • Identical, colorless ONT/ONU
• WDM-PON • Fully colourless operation
• Point-to-Point Ethernet • Low inventory management cost
• Density • Interfaces
• Upto 1024 λ / rack (4 shelves) • 4 10/100Base-Tx RJ-45 ports
• Advanced L2/L3 Packet Engine • Optical Connector – SC/APC WPF1132c WPF1132r/p
• Advanced QoS and Classification Cabinet Tray Ruggedized / Pole
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 Engineering Considerations
Nortel’s Ethernet Fiber Access vs others xPON
Ethernet Fiber Access Engineering TDM PON Engineering
60km C Low Density
Low Density Suburban/Rural Rural
32 or (4 x 8) Wavelengths
> 40km
40km B+
Medium Density
Urban/Suburban Medium Density High Density
32 Wavelengths Suburban/Rural Core/Suburban
20 – 40km B
20km
High Density
> ODN Core
is characterize as
32 or 64 Wavelengths
< 20km
A
4 8 16 32 64
Number of Wavelengths ( λ ) Split ratio (1:n)

• Passive OSP WDM Filter • Passive Splitter

• LOW loss components
• # Port independent ~ 5db loss
• User bandwidth independent of #subscribers
• Reach is independent of bit rate
Simple & Flexible OSP operations model
• HIGH Loss components
• 32 power split ~ 17db loss;
• 64 Split ~ 20db loss
• User bandwidth is inversely proportional to
distance and # of subscribers
CANNOT maintain a consistent
Engineering methodology

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Technology Direction

Lossless filter

Photonic
Integrated
Circuits Increased λ capacity
Low Noise
Broadband Increased density
Seeding Light Increased reach
Source
>2009

GEth WDM-PON Increased Line Rate

Increased flexibility SFP Design
Cascaded Open solution
filters

Colorless laser 2009

Operationally simple
Ethernet WDM for business
BLS and residential access with
unmatched capacity

AWG
2008
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Conclusion

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Customer Trials and Summary of Engagements

NA EMEA APAC

Since 1Q - 2008
92 public on-going deployments
915+ Lab and/or Field trials performed
9Understanding and validating applications
9 Business/Residential Services: VPN, Residential
9 Wireless Backhaul
9 Backhauling remote DSLAMs
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 deterministic innovative symmetrical

Nortel’s Ethernet Access

open Solution
foundational
with WDM-PON

secure simple dedicated

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