KAUTILYA INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY
AND ENGINEERING
A
Seminar On
“ FIBER TO THE HOME”

Capabilities and
Advantages of
Fiber to the Home BY: ABHISHEK SARASWAT
B. TECH. IV YEAR
What is optical Fiber
FIBER TO THE HOME
System Architecture
Two distinct mature solutions possible today
for expanding fibre optic coverage

- Fibre To The Node (FTTN) - Fibre To The Home (FTTH)

An installation whereby fibre is brought to the
distribution point – which can be the DSLAM
switch. Last mile connection is supplied by
VDSL2 on the copper network. This is also
referred to as FTTC (Curb or Cabinet)
A solution whereby fibre runs from the CO
right up to end users’ premises (home,
apartment or office building, or a university
campus, etc.). This type of solution is also
known as FTTP (Premise) and FTTB
(Business)

FTTH

ATM/ Splitter
FTTN PON Ethernet
Switch
ATM/
Ethernet
Switch
VDSL Passive network
DSLAM
Ethernet Ethernet
P2P Switch
WiMAX Active network

Active Ethernet
switch
Network Upgrade
Replace HFC node with all passive network
Central Office
HFC
Upgrade
Groupto
of Homes
FTTP

Existing HFC
network

Splitter
Closure
HFC
Core
Router 1 fiber per Node
32 homes
Network Capacity
Standards based PON compared to HFC based network

TV TV TV TV . . . TV Data Tele TV Frequency

Up to1Ghz
Limited upstream pipe
30 MHz

TV TV TV TV . . . TV TV TV TV TV Frequency
Up to1Ghz
Plus... 100% video

Data Tele Data Data Data Data Tele Time

Huge symmetrical pipe
1.25 Gbps
 PON Technology Tree Topology

nm ONT A
90
14
AB
nm
ONT B
0 nm 1490
downstream 13 1 AB
A ONT
B
ONT
IP/MPLS
Core
ONT
Catalyst
ME4924 ODF
OLT ONT

upstream Splitter ONT

PON ONT
PoP Home
Optical Line Termination
Optical Distribution Frame
Optical Network Termination
The GSFU-A dimensions are 342H x 303W x 109D (mm).
Typical PON Network
Hub

X LCC LCC LCC LCC

- Up to 12 Up to 12 Up to 12 Up to 12
c 1x32 split 1x32 split 1x32 split 1x32 split
o
n
n
e LCC LCC
c Up to 12 Up to 12
t 1x32 split 1x32 split LCC

LCC
Up to 12
1x32 split

1 or 2 Star 96 ct. Feeder Fiber tapered

Drop splice closures
Units ONT 220 within ODN to lower counts

3 or 4 Units

ONT 20 + or Hotel w/
1320 internal network

5 to 19 Units
ONT 880
 Analog RF Return Non-Standard 4
Wavelength PON
Rest of
RF FTTH 1550 nm
Headend 1490 nm OLT 1490 nm 1590 nm
1310 nm 1310 nm
RF Set Top
Node (DSG or
Video ONT
WDM WDM RF SCTE 55)
1550 (at Home)

1590 nm
RF
RF Combine

Rcvr Data and voice

CMTS
or Each PON connections
SCTE 55 RF
Rcvr
Analog RF Optical Return
WDM & Optical Receiver per PON • Non-standard RF solution with separate node
• Non-standard • Reduced reliability
• Reduced loss budget • Increase install cost
• Increase maintenance • Complicated network
• Increase space requirements & cost • Cost prohibitive
• Noise funneling limits combining
• Susceptible to RF ingress
• Amateur radio, electrical interference
Digital RF Return

All digital
• Eliminates noise funneling
• Immune to interference
• Plug-n-Play, no maintenance
Analog • IP from ONT
Digital • Combine 10k’s of set tops
from multiple sites
• Standard PON wavelengths
Trident7 Per Sub Cost
Trident7 PON HFC
Internet
Edge Router/ Backbone
PoP Interface Network

RF Video
Content/Distribution
Aggregation Router

$30 CMTS

RF Multiplexing

$110 Optical Receiver Optical Transmitter

Less or Power
equal to HFC
Optical Node
RF Amp

$350
100 to 500
$490 Homes
 PON Enables
PON Advantages
 Symmetrical bandwidth
 Support any bi-directional
application
 Plug-n-play network with
centralized provisioning and
management
 Support of both RF and IP video
 Routing without physical
multiplexing
 Additional revenue generation
 Reduced operating expenses
 Guarantees network & product
longevity
 PON Eliminates
 Active electronics in OSP
 Interference from EMI,
variance in RF power levels
 Lightning and power
related outages
 Upstream bandwidth
limitation
 RF multiplexing to target
services
 Complexity & maintenance
 HFC requires careful attention to
proper system alignment
 CMTS concentration
 Modems & MTAs
 The Upgrade Cycle
 Fiber to the Home Solution
Fiber optics all the way to the
subscriber’s premises

Services:
 Better quality voice services
 Higher quantity and quality video services than capable over copper
network. Both IP and RF video
 Ultra-high speed data services in both directions
 Extensive two-way broadband services and applications only enabled
with a FTTH network
Developers driving requirement to transition
from HFC to FTTH
Creates market advantage Create smart neighborhood
 Community – wide Local Area Network
 Local Community Server (on-site to provide customized
local content)
 Bulletin Board Services (BBS)
 Home Video Access to Association Meetings
 Group and Community Calendaring
 Personal and Group Home Pages
Create smart home
 Whole house control
 Remote access
 Video Security
Telemedicine / Teleradiology
 Interactive virtual “office visits”
 Real-time monitoring of vital
signs
 Instantaneous data to labs and
Hospital off-site experts
 Digital archiving
 Fiber will radically improve the
way you do healthcare:
 Local clinics
Shared X-ray  Comfort of your own homes

Medical Specialist
at his Office
or Home
Distance Education
Local College

Students can sit in a “virtual

classroom” and interact with
classes in local universities
as well as with guest
lecturers in distant
institutions

Virtual parent / teacher

conferences for K-12

Full-time employees with

challenging schedules can
enroll in customized
Harvard Law School educational programs
Residential Broadband
Services
 Work-at-Home:
 Increased efficiency and
corporate profitability
 Improve employee
satisfaction
 On-line Game Playing:
 Connect with others around
the world in graphics-
intensive multiplayer games
 Personal Pictures / Videos:
 Sharing high-quality digital
pictures and home videos
 Real-time videophone
Residential Broadband
Services
 Video Surveillance
 Nanny-cam / babysitter-cam
 Safety:
 Swimming pool monitoring
 Peace of mind when only one
person is at home
 Property management
 Small business & web
servers:
 Welcome high end users to
your network and generate
revenue
 Explosive Growth of Unicast Video
 Proliferation of high definition content
 Bandwidth intensive
 Video on Demand
 Consumers are becoming used to accessing content
when they want it
 Digital video recording
 Web-connected video players
 Apple TV, iPOD, X-BOX
 Internet video shift from PC’s to living room TVs
 Internet video distribution
 NBC will stream 1,000 hours of live Olympic
coverage
 Broadcasters studios providing direct content
Explosive Growth of
Upstream Video
 User-generated video Everything You Need to

rapidly increasing Know to shoot, edit and

post your own Internet
 Google 1.65 BN purchase of Productions and Movies

YouTube
 “Place-shifting” Video
 If TiVo “time-shifts” video,
Sling Box redirects or “place-
shifts” video to a remote PC
 Continued pressure on the
limited upstream bandwidth
of HFC networks
 ANY DIFFICULTIES?

 THANK YOU