Bandwidth-efficient PON system for broad-band access and local customer Internetworking

Author

Tran, An V. ; Chae, Chang-Joon ; Tucker, Rodney S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Vic., Australia

Volume

18

Issue

5

fYear

2006

fDate

3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

670

Lastpage

672

Abstract

We present a new passive optical network (PON) architecture for broad-band access and local customer networking. It provides high bandwidth efficiency for delivering both PON and customer internetworking services. The architecture separates the local optical network from the PON system, thereby enhancing security, flexibility, and allowing the use of any media access control protocol. The local customer internetworking feature is demonstrated with insignificant penalty to the overall PON system performance.

Keywords

access protocols; broadband networks; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre subscriber loops; security of data; PON system; bandwidth-efficient system; broadband access; local customer internetworking; local customer networking; local optical network; media access control protocol; network flexibility; optical local area network; passive optical network; security; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Internetworking; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Fiber-to-the-home; optical access network; optical local area network (LAN); passive optical network (PON);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.870058

Filename

1593726