3- Part-A: GPON Solution Planning

• GPON Network Architecture

• GPON Network Design & ODN Background

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 3- Part-A: GPON Solution Planning

• GPON Network Architecture

• GPON Network Design & ODN Background

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 FTTx Terminology

• FTTB Fiber To The Building

• FTTC Fiber To The Curb
• FTTH Fiber To The Home
• FTTN Fiber To The Node

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 FTTx Terminology

 "Fiber to the Building" (FTTB) refers to installing optical fiber from the
telephone company central office to a specific building such as a business or
apartment house.

 "Fiber to the Curb" (FTTC) refers to the installation and use of optical fiber cable
directly to the curbs near homes or any business environment, Fiber to the curb
implies that a medium might carry the signals the very short distance between
the curb and the user inside the home or business.

 "Fiber to the Home" (FTTH/FTTP) is a network technology that deploys fiber

optic cable directly to the home or business to deliver voice, video and data
services. By leveraging the extremely high bandwidth capacity of fiber, FTTH
can deliver more bandwidth capacity than competing copper-based
technologies such as twisted pair, HFC and xDSL.

 "Fiber to the neighborhood" (FTTN) refers to installing fiber generally to all

curbs or buildings in a neighborhood, FTTH, FTTB and FTTC are part of FTTN
coverage.

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 FTTx Topology

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 FTTx Topology

FTTN/C

MXK MSAP

n x 10Gb P2P Ethernet

Backhaul

MXK OLT/MSAP FTTP

P2MP Splitter
GPON

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 GPON or Active Ethernet ?

When to use P2MP GPON:

• For residential services
• Small medium enterprises with low bandwidth requirements
• 2G/4G backhauling
• Other services and application with low bandwidth requirements i.e
WiFi hotspots, 3G data offload,..
When to use P2P Ethernet
• High profile business customers up to 1G symmetrical.
• High bandwidth Applications i.e LTE
• LTE backhauling
• Remote node backhauling

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 GPON vs. Active Ethernet Bandwidth

100/1000 Mbps 100/1000 Mbps

DOWNSTREAM UPSTREAM

MXK OLT/MSAP

78 Mbps* 39 Mbps* 2.5 Gbps 1.25 Gbps

DOWNSTREAM UPSTREAM DS US

1 ... 32 subscriber lines/splitter

MXK OLT/MSAP

* Depending on splitting factor

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 3- Part-A: GPON Solution Planning

• GPON Network Architecture

• GPON Network Design & ODN Background

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 GPON Building Components

like every other field, PON technology has its own terminology
• the CO PON concentrator is called an OLT
• ONUs are the CPE devices (sometimes called ONTs in ITU)
• the entire fiber tree (incl. feeder, splitters, distribution fibers) is an ODN
• all trees emanating from the same OLT form an OAN
• downstream is from OLT to ONU (upstream is the opposite direction)

downstream
upstream
NNI
Optical Distribution
core Optical Network
Network
splitter Units
Optical Line UNI
Terminal
Optical Access Terminal
Network Equipment
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 ODN Building Components

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 Distance Considerations of GPON

Maximum distance between OLT and the furthest ONT is 60 km

Less than 60 km

MXK OLT/MSAP

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 Distance Considerations of GPON

Maximum distance between ONT closest to OLT and ONT furthest

from the OLT is 20 km.

MXK OLT/MSAP

Less than 20 km

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 Distance Considerations of GPON

MXK OLT/MSAP

20 km
32 ONT’s all within 20
km of the OLT.

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 Distance Considerations of GPON

10 ONT’s 30 km
10 ONT’s 20 km from OLT
10 ONT’s 10 km from OLT
from OLT

MXK OLT/MSAP

20 km

Less than 60 km

This is valid, but keep your optical budget in mind!

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 GPON Highlights
Optical Budget Calculation
• To calculate a correct power budget a number of
parameters must be taken into account:
transmitter output, fiber loss, splice loss,
connector loss and receiver sensitivity

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 GPON Highlights
Optical Budget Calculation

Splitter Loss Splitter Loss

1x2 5/95 -18.5/ -0.5dB 1x3 -5.8dB
1x2 10/90 -12.7/ -0.8dB 1x4 -7.5dB
1x2 20/80 -8.4/ -1.4dB 1x8 -11dB
1x2 30/70 -6.4/ -2.1dB 1x16 -14dB
1x2 40/60 -5.0/ -2.9dB 1x32 -18dB
1x2 50/50 -4dB 1x64 -21.5dB

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 GPON Highlights
Optical Budget Calculation

Launch Power Receiver Sensitivity

OLT OLT
Class B+ +1.5 to +5dB Class B+ -8 to -28dB
Class C+ +3.5 to +7.5dB Class C+ -8 to -33dB

ONT +0.5 to +5dB ONT -8 to -28dB

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 PON Network Design Example
GPON OLT Card
Connectors
Pwr Loss ~ - 0.2dB/connector

Voice
Data Fiber
Video Pwr Loss ~ - 0.3dB/km

Voice
Fiber
Pwr Loss ~ - 0.3dB/km
Data
Video PON Splitter/Combiner Chassis
(Initial 1x2 split)
2 Splits
Pwr Loss ~ - 4dB

Voice Number Max Pwr

Data PON Splitter/Combiner
Chassis
of Splits Loss*
Video
(Additional 1x4 split) 4 Splits 2 -4 dB
Pwr Loss ~ - 7.5dB
4 -7.5 dB
8 -11 dB
GPON 16 -14 dB
Voice
ONT zNID
Data Voice Connectors 32 -18 dB
Video Data
Video
Pwr Loss ~ - 0.2dB/connector 64 -21.5 dB

* Values may vary depending on

Total
TotalOptical
OpticalPower
PowerLevel
Level@@zNID
zNIDConnector
Connectorneeds
needsto
tobe
be different vendor splitters used

higher than zNID Sensitivity

higher than zNID Sensitivity
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 Optical Power Guidelines for Zhone OLT

OLT
• Transmit specifications
– Min 1.5 dBm
– Max 5 dBm
• Receive specifications
– Sensitivity -28 dBm (class B+ SFP)
– Sensitivity -32 dBm (class C+ SFP)
– Overload -8 dBm

This means that we should expect to see the OLT

transmitting at a power of about 3 dBm.
The optical power received at the OLT should be between
-28 dBm and -8 dBm.
It is good practice to stay away from the edge cases.
Optical power can change slightly over time for various
reasons (temperature fluctuations, hardware age) so a
deployed solution should allow some room for variation.

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 Optical Power Guidelines for Zhone ONT

ONT
• Transmit specifications
– Min 0.5 dBm
– Max 5 dBm
• Receive specifications
– Sensitivity -27 dBm
– Overload -8 dBm

This means that you should expect to see the ONT

transmitting at a power of about 3 dBm.
The optical power received at the ONT should be between
-27 dBm and -8 dBm.
It is good practice to stay away from the edge cases.
Optical power can change slightly over time for various
reasons so a deployed power solution should allow
some room for variation.

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 GPON Highlights
Extend A PON Past 20km
MXK-208> get gpon-olt-config 1-4-1-0/gponolt
gpon-olt-config 1-4-1-0/gponolt
max-rt-propagation-delay: -----> {200}
max-onu-response-time: --------> {50}
preassigned-eqd: --------------> {0} • A Class C+ laser is required to
los-alpha: --------------------> {4}
lof-alpha: --------------------> {4}
drive the distance out to 60km
loam-alpha: -------------------> {3}
scrambler: --------------------> {enabled}
• A Class B+ laser can be used
fec-mode: ---------------------> {disabled} for distances up to 40km,
auto-learn: -------------------> {enabled}
power-level: ------------------> {0} depending upon the number
guard-bit-count: --------------> {32}
dba-mode: ---------------------> {predictive}
of splits, splicing loss,
gem-block-size: ---------------> {16} connector loss, etc.
us-ber-interval: --------------> {5000}
ds-ber-interval: --------------> {5000}
ber-sf-threshold: -------------> {3}
ber-sd-threshold: -------------> {5}
fec-request: ------------------> {disabled}
key-exchange: -----------------> {disabled}
min-rt-propagation-delay: -----> {0}
min-onu-response-time: --------> {10}
eqd-measure-cycles: -----------> {5}
drift-ctrl-interval: ----------> {1000}
MXK-208>

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