Joint ITU/IEEE Workshop on Ethernet - Emerging
Applications and Technologies
FTTx Access in North America,
Europe, and Other Regions –
Status and Perspectives
Martin Carroll,
DMTS - Verizon
martin.carroll@verizon.com
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Outline
FTTx in North America
Verizon
Other deployments
FTTx in Europe
FT
Vodafone
FTTx in Middle East, other regions
Etisalat
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FTTx in North America
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FTTH Accelerating
in North America
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Percent FTTH
Connections by Country
930 North American, 880 U.S. providers
97% U.S. providers have < 10K FTTH
connections
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Verizon: Global Leader
Advanced foundational platforms
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Headquartered in NYC
Largest U.S. wireless company,
with 107.8M total connections
Largest 3G & 4G LTE networks
in the U.S.
Global IP network reaches
customers in > 150 countries
Over 485,000 route miles
First to deploy commercial
100Gb/s ultra-long-haul optical
system
Average 1 billion calls daily
Leading FTTP deployment in
North America
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FiOS Deployment
FiOS Service is available in 12
States & Washington, DC
FiOS Internet
Launched 2004
Up to 300Mb/s down & 65Mbps up
1Gb/s trials successful
FiOS Video/TV
Launched 2005
130 HD & 530 SD channels
Initial deployment BPON
GPON introduced 2007
XG-PON trials successful
Over 17M premises passed
Stats as of
1H2012
FiOS Growth
2004
2012
Customers
Net adds in
2Q2012
Penetration
(Sales/Premises marketed)
FiOS Internet
5.1M
134,000
36.6%
FiOS TV
4.5M
120,000
32.9%
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FiOS Architecture
Data path
used for VoD
and IPTV
Video
overlay
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WDM replaced
with 2x2 splitter
for 1:64 split
Up to 1x32
splitter
MoCA for in-home
distribution
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Successful
XG-PON1 Trials
Home Network
Broad
-cast
Video
Central Office
Router
EDFA
Class 5
Switch
PSTN
GPON
ONT
STB
Cat 5
GPON OLT
Coax
1x2
Splitter
Gateway
Router
XGPON1
OLT
Internet /
VOD
STB
WDM1r
Splitter
Test PC
IP Test Set
FDF
Test Cart
XG-PON1
ONT
IP Test Set
STB
Converter
Router
Test PC
FDH
Huawei XG-PON1 overlaid on Motorola GPON
WDM1r integrates GPON & XG-PON wavelengths
Successfully demonstrated:
10G down x 2.5G up capable; 1 Gig home network
Coexistence of XG-PON & GPON
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XG-PON2 Proven
XG-PON2 Symmetric 10Gb/s Downstream
and Upstream
Used existing ODN in Taunton, Massachusetts
Alcatel-Lucent equipment
Viability demonstrated
10Gb/s upstream channel viable, could be
basis for NG-PON2
Support greater upstream bandwidth for
adoption on a mass scale of new and emerging
business and residential applications
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Residential Drivers
Bandwidth Growth
Need for SPEED
Consumer speeds increasing
at 6-10x every 6 years
Throughputs in excess of
1Gbps are expected by 2015
Competitive advantage
Source:
Cisco
New services/technologies
Gain operational savings via
copper replacement
Central office consolidation
Downloading HD &
3D video content
UGC Sharing
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Multi-location 3D
HD video
conferencing
Larger screens require
higher resolution
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Central Office
Consolidation Opportunity
273 COs
PON Reach at 20km allows
Number of COs to reduce to
30-40km PON distance
appears ideal balance
between cost and
technology
PON Reach is 30km allows
Number of COs to reduce to
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Business Drivers
Ethernet Services
SES (Switched Ethernet Service)
Point to Point or Multipoint Ethernet
service
10M, 100M, and GigE UNI options
EPL (Ethernet Private Line)
Wireless Backhaul
Microcell site support
Distributed eNodeB
CPRI backhaul
Macrocell
Ethernet backhaul
Optical Services
OWS (Optical Wavelength
Services)
Dedicated wavelength – 10G
or 40G
Point to point service
Various client side handoffs,
e.g., Ethernet, SONET, FC
etc.
OTN (OTU1 – OTU3)
SONET (OC3-OC192)
EDSR (Enhanced Dedicated
SONET Ring)
Dedicated fiber in the access
loop
Services currently supported over GPON will be
expanded and enhanced with Verizon’s 3rd Generation
PON driving economies of scale
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Access PON Evolution
Vz’s 3rd
Generation
PON
G-PON
GPON
B-PON
B-PON
Initial Deployment
Rates to 30 Mpbs
Consumer/Small Business Market
1:32 Splits
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G-PON
Current Deployment
Rates up to 400 Mbps
Limited Business Circuits
OTT Video
Improved Economies of
Scale: 1:64 Splits
Common platform to
support residential and
business services
Deployable within existing
infrastructure
Splitter based FTTP architecture
Connectorized system
RF overlay
Coexist with GPON
Protection and resiliency
options
Demonstrated multi-vendor
plug-an-play interoperability
between OLT and ONU’s
Fully deployable by 2015
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ONTs Being Deployed
3rd Gen Candidates
XG-PON1
NG-PON2
System Rate
10/2.5 Gb/s
40/10 Gb/s
Subscriber Rates (up to)
2.5 Gb/s Symmetrical
10 Gb/s Symmetrical
Standards
ITU-T G.987 series
Developing ITU-T G.989 series
Coexistence with G-PON
Demonstrated on Verizon
infrastructure
To Be Standardized
Interoperability
Current activity in FSAN &
BBF
VIF, ITU, FSAN, & BBF
Migration
Demonstrated on Verizon
infrastructure
Required
Availability
2011
Target 2015
G-PON
B-PON
2004
2007
2011
XG-PON1
2015
NG-PON2
2020
NG-PON2 is “best-fit” for Verizon
Focus Standards and Interoperability development to meet the timeline
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Other FTTx
Deployments
AT&T, CenturyLink have
significant FTTC/FTTP
deployments
Chattanooga public
utility (EPB) offered
gigabit FTTH for 3 years
Google Fiber to launch
1Gb/s in Kansas City
“fiberhoods” in October
GigU to deliver 1Gb/s
drops in areas around
universities
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Google “Fiberhood”
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FTTx in Europe
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FTTx in 2012 for France
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Conquest 2015
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Portugal
As of September 2012, Vodafone has over
35,000 customers on FTTH access.
Alface project has been running
commercially since September 2010, Libra
project has been running commercially since
March 2011
Since September 2012, we have 476,000
homes passed.
FTTH GPON is the technology used, with
analogue/digital video overlay.
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Capacity
FTTH deployments offer much higher bit
rates to customer. Vodafone Portugal base
offer is 50/5 Mb/s, with Internet Profiles up
to 400/40 Mb/s to Residential subscribers.
About 80% of our installed base subscribe to
IPTV services. On-demand TV service
(RestartTV) has increased the overall
backhaul traffic and traffic per user.
Some copper deployment is not suitable to
deploy these bit-rate demanding services as
VDSL2 is not viable
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Interoperability
OLT vendors already offer integrated
gateways, but with few functionalities today these gateways can’t replace the
already deployed CPE + L2 ONT, they are
expensive and they can’t work in a multivendor environment.
Vodafone’s goal is to have an integrated
Home Gateway (similar to DSL) that can
interoperate in a multi-vendor environment.
This will reduce acquisition and retention
costs, the amount of equipment installed in
customer premises and simplify logistics.
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Other European
Projects
Vodafone Germany has two FTTC trials under way in
the cities of Wuerzburg and Heilbronn.
Vodafone Italy is starting a project to deliver FTTH
services with GPON technologies in Milan by using the
Metroweb fiber network
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FTTx in the Middle East,
Other Regions
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African Projects
Vodafone Ghana is deploying
FTTC for increasing data rate to
customers by using GPON as
technology for backhauling
street cabinet DSLAMs
Vodacom South Africa is staring
a project for delivering FTTH
services to business and high
spending residential customers
using GPON technology
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Australia and
New Zealand
In Australia, NBN Co will deploy 181,000 km of GPON
network, and 57,000 km of transit backhaul. Aerial drop
fibre to be used for 25% of households
Provides a bitstream service with equal service terms to all
ISPs, including Telstra, which will lose control of the copper.
High interest in an open PON solution to overlap to their
initial GPON in order to give ISP freedom to install their own
OLT at the Central Office
In New Zealand, the government is deploying a NZ$1.5
billion UFB (Ultra Fast Broadband Initiative) access fibre
network through Crown Fibre Holdings (CFH). FTTH to be
available to 75% (800,000 homes and businesses ) of the
New Zealand market by 2019
Vodafone New Zealand will buy Layer 2 products from the
LFCs to deliver FTTH in the retail market. GPON for
residential and point to point for large businesses. 100Mbps
down and 50Mbps up.
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THANKS!
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