Long-Reach and High-Splitting-Ratio 10G-EPON System With Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and N:1 OSU Protection

Author

Tsutsumi, Takuya ; Sakamoto, Takeshi ; Sakai, Yoshihito ; Fujiwara, Toshihito ; Ou, Hiroshi ; Kimura, Yasutaka ; Suzuki, Ken-Ichi

Author_Institution

NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Yokosuka, Japan

Volume

33

Issue

8

fYear

2015

fDate

April15, 15 2015

Firstpage

1660

Lastpage

1665

Abstract

We successfully demonstrate a 41.3-km-reach and 128-split 10G-EPON system with dual-rate semiconductor optical amplifier on a commercial access network infrastructure. It uses N:1 optical subscriber unit (OSU) protection in order to improve system reliability cost-effectively. N:1 OSU protection also can switch from active system to redundant system without any frame loss. Moreover, the quality of bidirectional frame transmission is not degraded after switching, even with four-class priority control. Error free transmission over 130 hours is also confirmed. These results indicate that N:1 OSU protection with automatic level control semiconductor optical amplifiers is a promising approach to practical 10G-EPON systems that are cost-effective and reliable.

Keywords

computer network reliability; optical communication equipment; optical fibre LAN; passive optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication switching; EPON system; Ethernet passive optical network reliability; N:1 OSU protection; N:1 optical subscriber unit protection; automatic level control semiconductor optical amplifier; bidirectional frame transmission quality; commercial access network; dual-rate semiconductor optical amplifier; error free transmission; four-class priority control; long-reach and high-splitting-ratio; Network topology; Optical switches; Passive optical networks; Reliability; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Automatic level control (ALC); N ?? 1 optical switch; N:1 redundant topology; Nx1 optical switch; commercial access network; commercial access network dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA); dual-rate; dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA); long-term feasibility; priority control; protection; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); ten gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (10G-EPON);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2015.2399500

Filename

7042259