Testbed for experimental analysis on seamless evolution architectures from GPON to high capacity WDM-PON

Author

Berrettini, Gianluca ; Giorgi, L. ; Ponzini, F. ; Cavaliere, F. ; Ghiggino, P. ; Poti, L. ; Bogoni, A.

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

The reuse of existing infrastructure whilst keeping unaffected the legacy equipment is a crucial feature for the evolution of gigabit passive optical networks (GPONs) towards higher capacity wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical networks (WDM-PONs). In this paper a testbed for the evaluation of simple and cost effective GPON evolutions will be presented. A comprehensive set of WDM-PON architectures based on remote wavelengths distribution and wavelengths reuse for upstream (US) transmission will be proposed. Both 2.5Gb/s and 10Gb/s (symmetric traffic) have been taken into account and experimentally evaluated in terms of bit error rate (BER) on the same testing bench. System perspectives and limitations are also discussed.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; GPON seamless evolution architecture; WDM-PON; gigabit passive optical network; remote wavelength distribution; wavelength division multiplexing; wavelength reuse; Costs; Next generation networking; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber testing; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing; GPON Evolution; Reflective EAM; Reflective SOA; WDM-PON;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities and Workshops, 2009. TridentCom 2009. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2846-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2847-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976198

Filename

4976198