GPON and EP2P: A techno-economic study

Author

Ricciardi, Sergio ; Santos-Boada, Germán ; Careglio, Davide ; Domingo-Pascual, Jordi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Archit., Tech. Univ. of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

New services like Video on demand/Internet Protocol Television, Voice over IP and high speed Internet access demand very high bandwidth to provide Triple Play services to the customers. The ADSL/ADLS2+ and the VDSL/VDSL2 copperwire technologies deteriorate quickly with the distance and will be soon obsolete for supporting the ultra-high bandwidth requirements of the next future. One suitable long term solution for such a high bandwidth demand is employing optical fibers to customers premises (FTTH). In particular, two optical distribution network architectures, GPON (gigabit passive optical network) and EP2P (Ethernet point-to-point), are competing for the network access segment. This paper surveys the two technologies and evaluates them from a quantitative techno-economic point of view, trying to identify which market scenarios are best served by EP2P and which are best served by GPON architectures for supporting the requirement of Triple Play applications.

Keywords

optical fibre LAN; passive optical networks; ADSL/ADLS2+; EP2P; Ethernet point-to-point; FTTH; GPON architecture; Internet protocol television; VDSL/VDSL2 copperwire technology; gigabit passive optical network; high bandwidth demand; high speed Internet access; network access segment; optical distribution network architecture; optical fiber; techno-economic study; triple play service; ultra-high bandwidth requirement; video on demand; voice over IP; Bandwidth; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; EP2P; FTTX; GPON; OPNET; QoS; TriplePlay;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Optical Communications (NOC), 2012 17th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Vilanova i la Geltru

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0949-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0950-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOC.2012.6249954

Filename

6249954