Title :
Cost analysis of coherent-based TRx PON network
Author :
Albert Rafel;Neil Parkin
Author_Institution :
British Telecommunications
Abstract :
We analyse a simplified coherent design developed in the EU Project COCONUT for access networks and compare with standardised PON systems. A coherent ONU using dedicated wavelength at 1Gbit/s is predicted to be ~1.6 times the cost of a GPON-ONU.
Keywords :
"Passive optical networks","Optical network units","Optical receivers","Optical sensors","Optical amplifiers","Complexity theory"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341830
