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Podcast Transcript
WDM PON
Featuring Tim Doiron, Director Broadband Product Marketing
Monsho: What’s up? Monsho here today
for another session of Get Schooled.
Did you do your homework? Are you
ready for today’s pop quiz? Okay, here
we go.
What are the different PON technolo-
gies? Here’s a hint: PON evolution is not
an Xbox game. Is it: (a) EPON, GPON,
BPON and FPON, (b) console, online and
handheld, (c) BPON, EPON, GPON and
WDM PON, or (d) WGN and UPN? We
be oopin’.
Don’t know the answer? Don’t worry. Sit
back, relax. It’s time to get schooled.
Dave Morfas: Hi. I’m Dave Morfas, and
today I’m here to talk to Tim Doiron
about WDM PON.
I think the first question we need to
define is, what exactly is WDM PON and
how is it relevant to the industry?
Tim Doiron: Sure.
WDM PON is really the idea of putting
multiple wavelengths onto an existing
passive optical network. Today’s PON
networks tend to have something like
one downstream and one upstream
wavelength. They may have an additional
wavelength in the downstream for RF
video, but they are limited in terms of the
number of wavelengths they support.
Service providers are always looking for
opportunities to expand the utility of
the fiber infrastructure they may have in
place, and WDM PON is the idea that I
can put something like 32 wavelengths
down and maybe 32 wavelengths up on
that same PON fiber that they may have
installed or are thinking about installing
for a deep-fiber-access network.
Dave Morfas: Are there other PON tech-
nologies out there, and is WDM PON an
extension or an evolution of those, or is it
something new?
Tim Doiron: Today there’s really three
different PON technologies available in
the marketplace. You have BPON, GPON
and EPON. Both BPON and GPON were
developed by the Full-Service Access
Network Committee of the ITU. EPON
was developed as part of the IEEE activity
around 802.3-AH specification for fiber
in the last mile.
When you look at the idea of multiple
wavelengths moving beyond two or three
wavelengths on a PON fiber, that’s really
tied to, so far, FSAN and the work coming
out of the FSAN Committee as vendor
and service provider partners look to
evolve beyond GPON and where we go
from there to increase the bandwidth and
the utility of the fiber that is out there.
Dave Morfas: From an infrastructure
and equipment perspective, what type
of equipment is needed to deploy WDM
PON, and is it the same equipment that’s
needed for GPON?
Tim Doiron: It is exactly the same type of
equipment.
In today’s PON infrastructure, you tend
to have an OLT, or an Optical Line Ter-
minal, at the central office deployment
location, and then the unit that’s serving
the customer is typically referred to as an
ONT, or an Optical Networking Terminal.
So WDM PON would use those same
OLT and ONT concepts.
From a Tellabs portfolio perspective, the
8865 Serviceaware OLT and the Tel-
labs 1150 Multiservice Access Platform,
both of those were designed with the
high-bandwidth, high-switching-capacity
capabilities that would lend themselves
to an evolution from GPON to Lambda
PON.
That said, those devices could be upgrad-
ed and would be upgraded for Lambda
PON support with a software upgrade
and a line-card module that would go
from a single-wavelength type of module
we use in BPON and GPON today, to
something that would be multiple wave-
lengths in a Lambda PON network.
In addition to that, there’s a lot of work
going on right now in the area of the
wavelength grid that we would use
for those multiple wavelengths. That
work is predominantly focused around
the idea of having GPON ONTs remain
compatible with a Lambda PON OLT
network. With that as the case, a GPON
ONT that’s already installed in a service
provider could continue to be utilized
and deployed literally side by side with a
Lambda PON-capable ONT in the future.
Dave Morfas: Are there end user servic-
es driving GPON and what will eventually
be WDM PON?
Tim Doiron: Absolutely. Service provid-
ers are looking to evolve their networks
and the services they offer from voice
and high-speed Internet to video and
multimedia-type of entertainment.
When you look at where we’re heading
in terms of increased high-definition con-
tent, more personalization in terms of the
consumer being able to get the type of
content when he wants, where he wants
and how he wants it, all of that leads to
more and more bandwidth demands on
the network. And so service providers
are certainly talking about evolution to
GPON and deep-fiber-access networks
like that, and then some are beginning
to look at where do we go from here
in terms of GPON and the continued
service mix, mostly driven by video and
personalized type of entertainment
services?
Dave Morfas: What role, then, is Tellabs
playing in PON technology and PON
evolution?
Tim Doiron: Having shipped over a mil-
lion ONTs to some of the world’s largest
service providers, Tellabs clearly has a
significant leadership and role to play in
terms of evolving access networks.
Tellabs is really doing that in several dif-
ferent ways. We continue to institution-
alize the lessons learned and the things
we have picked up from over three years
of deploying PON infrastructure, and
that’s reflected in our fifth generation of Monsho: You done already? That wasn’t
ONTs and the subsequent products we’re too hard, was it?
bringing to market.
The correct answer is (c) BPON, EPON,
In addition to that, we are an active GPON and WDM PON. I’ll give you extra
participant in the Full-Services Access credit if you were oopin’. You know you
Network, or FSAN, of the ITU, where a were oopin’.
lot of standards body activity and future
If you missed the answer, your home-
evolution of PON and PON specifications
work is to download the cheat sheet at
is occurring.
inspirethenewlife.com.
And then finally, Tellabs is funding a sig-
Come back tomorrow for another quiz.
nificant amount of research both at some
I’ll be waiting.
universities around the world and here
at Tellabs in the area of a PON evolu-
tion, including WDM PON and multiple
wavelengths on a PON fiber.

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Statements herein may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events, products, features, technology and resulting commercial or technological benefits and advantages. These statements are for discussion
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Inc., or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries: TELLABS®, TELLABS and T symbol®, and T symbol®. Any other company or product names may be trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Tellabs. All rights reserved.