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Re: pon's and ethernet to the home
From: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens () email com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:59:26 -0200
As far as I have understood, the idea is to use the fiber as it was coax, doing some kind of FDM (frequency division multiplexing) with the lambdas (somehow the same). This would give us the capability
In the optics field it is usually called WDM (Wavelenght Division Multiplexing).
to move at leat n x 10mbps ethernet on the same fiber using diferent lambdas for each customer, until power budget goes down.
Nope; PON works by sharing the same channel among the users. There is a WDM use of the fiber only because the uplink and downlink use different wavelenghts, but the downlink is shared with TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) and the uplink with TDMA (TDM/Multiple Access).
If the idea is correct, this would mean "next jump" on bandwidth. Who would be making this "ethernet/lambda multiplexors" right now? Is it feasible to do it today? or should we wait a little more?
PONs are feasible today; the CO equipment is called OLT (Optical Line Terminator), and the CPE is a ONT/ONU (Optical Network Terminator/Unit). The only external device is a passive star coupler. Check out www.ponforum.org, www.fsanweb.org and www.efma.org
I mean, there are solutions using packet over sonet or alike, but pure ethernet?
PON has three flavors: APON/BPON, EPON (IEEE 802.3ah) and GPON. APON uses ATM framing, EPON uses Ethernet framing and GPON uses GFP (Generic Framing Protocol). GFP can also be used on top of SONET to make Ethernet-over-SONET, Rubens
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