Demonstration and field trial of a resilient hybrid NG-PON test-bed

• Published in: Optical fiber technology Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 537 - 546
• Main Authors: Prat, Josep, Polo, Victor, Schrenk, Bernhard, Lazaro, Jose A., Bonada, Francesc, Lopez, Eduardo T., Omella, Mireia, Saliou, Fabienne, Le, Quang T., Chanclou, Philippe, Leino, Dmitri, Soila, Risto, Spirou, Spiros, Costa, Liliana, Teixeira, Antonio, Tosi-Beleffi, Giorgio M., Klonidis, Dimitrios, Tomkos, Ioannis
• Format: Journal Article Publication
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.10.2014
• Subjects: Comunicacions òptiques; Enginyeria de la telecomunicació; Fibra òptica; Fibres òptiques; Metro-access convergence; Next generation optical access; NEXT-GENERATION; NGOA; OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS; Optical communications; Optical fibers; Passive Optical Network; Telecomunicació òptica; WDM-PON; Àrees temàtiques de la UPC; WDM-PON; Next generation optical access; Passive Optical Network; NGOA; Metro-access convergence
• ISSN: 1068-5200; 1095-9912
• DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2014.06.006

A multi-layer next generation PON prototype has been built and tested, to show the feasibility of extended hybrid DWDM/TDM-XGPON FTTH networks with resilient optically-integrated ring-trees architecture, supporting broadband multimedia services. It constitutes a transparent common platform for the coexistence of multiple operators sharing the optical infrastructure of the central metro ring, passively combining the access and the metropolitan network sections. It features 32 wavelength connections at 10Gbps, up to 1000 users distributed in 16 independent resilient sub-PONs over 100km. This paper summarizes the network operation, demonstration and field trial results.