Joint ITU/IEEE Workshop on Ethernet - Emerging
Applications and Technologies
G.fast for FTTdp
Les Brown,
Associate Rapporteur G.fast
Lantiq, Germany
Geneva, Switzerland, 22 September 2012
Overview
What is FTTdp?
FTTdp/G.fast “raison d’être”
Applications
Service provider requirements
G.fast key features
Standards time-line
Standards body coöperation
Backup material
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What is FTTdp ?
A broadband access solution taking fibre to a distribution point (FTTdp) very close to the customers premises, with total wire length to the customers’ transceiver up to
250m.
It is expected that the bulk of the loop lengths may be in the order 30 to 50m. On 30 m loops, aggregate data rates up to at least 500
Mb/s should be supported on a single pair.
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FTTdp/G.fast “raison d’être”
To provide the best aspects of ‘Fibre to the home’ and ‘ADSL’:
Fibre to the home bit-rates customer self-installation like ADSL
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Applications
Next-generation IPTV service at well over 100 Mb/s
Access to small and medium business sites at well over 100 Mb/s
Backhaul for very small wireless cell sites, including HetNet
Backhaul for WiFi hot spots
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Service provider requirements (1/6)
Low Power/Cost/Complexity
Reverse power feed for the remote device from the customers’ residential gateway
Mandatory customer self install triple-play services with home network bridge taps, on loops up to 200m
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Service provider requirements (2/6)
Zero Touch OAM
To provide for remote management of user connections – for connecting of new users or switching users to or from legacy exchange or cabinet hosted services)
Node sizes typically 1 to 16 ports
Support for exchange and derived POTS
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Service provider requirements (3/6)
Service rate performance targets
500-1000 Mb/s for FTTB deployments
@<100m, straight loops
500 Mb/s at 100m
200 Mb/s at 200m
150 Mb/s at 250m
Aggregate service rates ≥500 Mb/s with start frequency of 23 MHz and VHF and
DAB bands notches
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Service provider requirements (4/6)
Capacity vs. Max Bandwidth in AWGN=-
140 dBm/Hz (100% crosstalk cancellation)
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Service provider requirements (5/6)
Control of downstream/upstream asymmetry ratio
Mandatory: 90/10 to 50/50
Optional: from 50/50 to 10/90
Interoperability with VDSL2
Coexistence with xDSL
Start frequency: 2.2, 8.5, 17.664, and
30 MHz
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Service provider requirements (6/6)
Coexistence with xDSL: VDSL2 to G.fast migration
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G.fast key features (1/4)
Duplexing method: TDD
Can easily vary DS/US asymmetry ratio
Easily supports low-power states
Discontinuous mode allows trade-off of throughput vs. power consumption
Point-to-point distribution (no TDMA)
T ds
Downstream transmission opportunity
Frame
T g1
T us
Upstream transmission opportunity
Downstream-upstream-guard-time
T g2 time
Upstream-downstream-guard-time
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G.fast key features (2/4)
Bandwidth: ≈ 100 MHz
Modulation: DMT, 2048 sub-carriers, sub-carrier spacing 51.75 kHz, ≤12 bits/sub-carrier
PHY layer retransmission improved robustness against impulsive noise while maintaining low latency
Mandatory support for vectoring
Far-end crosstalk (FEXT) cancellation
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G.fast key features (3/4)
FEC: Trellis code + Reed Solomon of
VDSL2 (G.993.2) with the retransmission block (DTU) interleaving defined in G.998.4
Will provide transport of network timing (8 kHz NTR) and Time of Day
(ToD)
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G.fast key features (4/4)
Intended to operate over loops up to approximately 250 m of 24 AWG (0.5 mm) wire pair
VDSL2 is approximately 2500 metres of
26 AWG (0.4 mm)
Support for both TR-156 and TR-167
Broadband Forum architectures
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Standards time-line
September 2010: Broadband Forum (BBF) Service Provider
Action Council (SPAC) agreed to develop a white paper capturing network operators’ potential requirements.
January 2011: At request of BBF, ITU-T Q4/15 agreed to study the transceiver aspects of FTTdp, and issued a call for papers.
February 2011: Q4/15 opened G.fast project and assigned an Associate Rapporteur/Editor
June 2011: Q4/15 agreed to develop a new
Recommendation
July 2012: agreed to a goal to Consent the G.fast standard in July, 2013
Expect an approve standard March, 2014
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Standards body coöperation
Close coöperation between standards groups is needed:
ITU-T Q4/15 for G.fast transceiver aspects
ITU-T Q2/15 for PON related aspects
Broadband Forum (FAN and E2E Architecture
WGs) for architectural aspects, and
ETSI TM6 for reverse power feeding aspects
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The end
Thank you
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Backup material
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Broadband Forum Architectures
OLT
DP
…
…
ONU
Switch
…
FTU-O
DP
Ethernet
…
TR-167 Model
(PON-fed Access Node)
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DP
…
…
OLT
Switching &
Shaping
DP
ONU
…
FTU-O
…
TR-156 Model
(OLT+ONU=Access Node)
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Detailed TR-156 Architecture
(Downstream)
Switching &
Shaping
OLT GEM Frame
DP
…
…
GEM
Port ID
Packet
ONU
DP
Switch by GEM port ID
Q Q Q Q
Priority
Scheduler
1
…
…
Q Q Q Q
Priority
Scheduler
N
FTU-O
…
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Reference model of FTTdp deployment
NMS
Q
V
OL
T
Access Node
OD
N
ME
PH
Y
FTU-O module
L2
+
FTU-O-
1
G
ME
U-
O
U-
R
FTU-R-
1
NT-1
L2
+
PH
Y
T/
S
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Reference model of an FTU-O module
R/S
γ-O
STREAMds-1
FCTLds-1 FTU-O-1
U-O
STREAMus-1
DBRus-1
FTU-O module contains N transceivers,
FTU-O-n, n=1…N
PHY L2+
DBRds-1
Freq/Time in 1588
Freq/Time from PHY
DBA
TXOPds-1
TXOPus-1
TCE
TDD-timing
NTR/ToD
STREAM-BC-1
ε-1-n
ε-c-1
VCE
DBA-m
TCE-m γ-m ε-m
FTU-O module ME
VCE=vectoring control entity, TCE=timing control entity, DBA=dynamic bandwidth allocation
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Reference model of an FTU-R module
γ-R
U-R
T
FTU-R
STREAMus
FCTLus
DBRus
STREAM-BC
STREAMds
NTR/ToD
PHY
L2+
TCE
Freq/Time in 1588
Freq/Time to PHY
TCE-m γ-m
NT
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