Joint ITU/IEEE Workshop on Ethernet - Emerging

Applications and Technologies

FTTx Access in North America,

Europe, and Other Regions
Status and Perspectives
Martin Carroll,
DMTS - Verizon
martin.carroll@verizon.com
Geneva, Switzerland, 22 September
2012

Outline
FTTx in North America
Verizon
Other deployments

FTTx in Europe
FT
Vodafone

FTTx in Middle East, other regions

Etisalat
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FTTx in North America

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FTTH Accelerating
in North America

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Percent FTTH
Connections by Country

930 North American, 880 U.S. providers

97% U.S. providers have < 10K FTTH
connections
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Verizon: Global Leader

Advanced foundational platforms

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Headquartered in NYC
Largest U.S. wireless company,
with 107.8M total connections
Largest 3G & 4G LTE networks
in the U.S.
Global IP network reaches
customers in > 150 countries
Over 485,000 route miles
First to deploy commercial
100Gb/s ultra-long-haul optical
system
Average 1 billion calls daily
Leading FTTP deployment in
North America

FiOS Deployment
FiOS Service is available in 12
States & Washington, DC
FiOS Internet
Launched 2004
Up to 300Mb/s down & 65Mbps up
1Gb/s trials successful

FiOS Video/TV
Launched 2005
130 HD & 530 SD channels

Initial deployment BPON

GPON introduced 2007
XG-PON trials successful
Over 17M premises passed

FiOS Growth
2004

2012

Stats as of
1H2012

Customers

Net adds in
2Q2012

Penetration
(Sales/Premises marketed)

FiOS Internet

5.1M

134,000

36.6%

FiOS TV

4.5M

120,000

32.9%

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FiOS Architecture
Data path
used for VoD
and IPTV

Video
overlay
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WDM replaced
with 2x2
splitter for 1:64
split

Up to 1x32
splitter

MoCA for in-home

distribution
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Successful
XG-PON1 Trials
Broad-cast
Video

PSTN

Internet / VOD

Home Network
Central Office
Class
5
Switc
h
Gatew
ay
Route
r

Route
r

EDFA

GPO
N
ONT

GPON
OLT

XGPO
N1
OLT

Test PC
IP Test
Set

Cat 5

ST
B

Coax
1x2
Splitter

WDM
1r

FDF

Splitter

FDH

XGPON1
ONT
STB

IP Test
Set

Test Cart
Rout
er

STB
Convert
er

Test PC

Huawei XG-PON1 overlaid on Motorola GPON

WDM1r integrates GPON & XG-PON wavelengths
Successfully demonstrated:
10G down x 2.5G up capable; 1 Gig home network
Coexistence of XG-PON & GPON
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XG-PON2 Proven
XG-PON2 Symmetric 10Gb/s Downstream
and Upstream
Used existing ODN in Taunton, Massachusetts
Alcatel-Lucent equipment

Viability demonstrated
10Gb/s upstream channel viable, could be
basis for NG-PON2
Support greater upstream bandwidth for
adoption on a mass scale of new and emerging
business and residential applications

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Residential Drivers
Bandwidth Growth

Need for SPEED

Consumer speeds increasing at
6-10x every 6 years
Throughputs in excess of
1Gbps are expected by 2015

Competitive advantage

Source:
Cisco

New services/technologies
Gain operational savings via
copper replacement
Central office consolidation

Downloading HD &
3D video content

UGC Sharing

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Multi-location 3D
HD video
conferencing

Larger screens require

higher resolution
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Central Office
Consolidation Opportunity
273 COs

PON Reach at 20km allows

Number of COs to reduce to

30-40km PON distance

appears ideal balance
between cost and
technology
PON Reach is 30km allows
Number of COs to reduce to
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Business Drivers
Ethernet Services
SES (Switched Ethernet Service)
Point to Point or Multipoint Ethernet
service
10M, 100M, and GigE UNI options

EPL (Ethernet Private Line)

Wireless Backhaul
Microcell site support
Distributed eNodeB
CPRI backhaul

Macrocell
Ethernet backhaul

Optical Services
OWS (Optical Wavelength
Services)
Dedicated wavelength 10G
or 40G
Point to point service
Various client side handoffs,
e.g., Ethernet, SONET, FC etc.

OTN (OTU1 OTU3)

SONET (OC3-OC192)
EDSR (Enhanced Dedicated
SONET Ring)
Dedicated fiber in the access
loop

Services currently supported over GPON will be

expanded and enhanced with Verizons 3 rd Generation
PON driving economies of scale
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Access PON Evolution

Vzs 3rd
Generation
PON
G-PON
GPON

B-PON
B-PON
Initial Deployment
Rates to 30 Mpbs
Consumer/Small Business Market
1:32 Splits

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G-PON
Current Deployment
Rates up to 400 Mbps
Limited Business Circuits
OTT Video
Improved Economies of
Scale: 1:64 Splits

Common platform to support

residential and business
services
Deployable within existing
infrastructure
Splitter based FTTP architecture
Connectorized system
RF overlay
Coexist with GPON

Protection and resiliency

options
Demonstrated multi-vendor
plug-an-play interoperability
between OLT and ONUs
Fully deployable by 2015
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ONTs Being Deployed

3rd Gen Candidates

XG-PON1

NG-PON2

System Rate

10/2.5 Gb/s

40/10 Gb/s

Subscriber Rates (up to)

2.5 Gb/s Symmetrical

10 Gb/s Symmetrical

Standards

ITU-T G.987 series

Developing ITU-T G.989 series

Coexistence with G-PON

Demonstrated on Verizon
infrastructure

To Be Standardized

Interoperability

Current activity in FSAN

& BBF

VIF, ITU, FSAN, & BBF

Migration

Demonstrated on Verizon
infrastructure

Required

Availability

2011

Target 2015

G-PON

B-PON
2004

2007

2011

XG-PON1

2015

NG-PON2

2020

NG-PON2 is best-fit for Verizon

Focus Standards and Interoperability development to meet the timeline
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Other FTTx
Deployments
AT&T, CenturyLink have
significant FTTC/FTTP
deployments
Chattanooga public utility
(EPB) offered gigabit
FTTH for 3 years
Google Fiber to launch
1Gb/s in Kansas City
fiberhoods in October
GigU to deliver 1Gb/s
drops in areas around
universities
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Google Fiberhood

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FTTx in Europe

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FTTx in 2012 for France

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Conquest 2015

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Portugal
As of September 2012, Vodafone has over
35,000 customers on FTTH access.
Alface project has been running
commercially since September 2010, Libra
project has been running commercially since
March 2011
Since September 2012, we have 476,000
homes passed.
FTTH GPON is the technology used, with
analogue/digital video overlay.

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Capacity
FTTH deployments offer much higher bit
rates to customer. Vodafone Portugal base
offer is 50/5 Mb/s, with Internet Profiles up
to 400/40 Mb/s to Residential subscribers.
About 80% of our installed base subscribe to
IPTV services. On-demand TV service
(RestartTV) has increased the overall
backhaul traffic and traffic per user.
Some copper deployment is not suitable to
deploy these bit-rate demanding services as
VDSL2 is not viable
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Interoperability
OLT vendors already offer integrated
gateways, but with few functionalities today these gateways cant replace the
already deployed CPE + L2 ONT, they are
expensive and they cant work in a multivendor environment.
Vodafones goal is to have an integrated
Home Gateway (similar to DSL) that can
interoperate in a multi-vendor environment.
This will reduce acquisition and retention
costs, the amount of equipment installed in
customer premises and simplify logistics.
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Other European
Projects
Vodafone Germany has two FTTC trials under way in
the cities of Wuerzburg and Heilbronn.
Vodafone Italy is starting a project to deliver FTTH
services with GPON technologies in Milan by using the
Metroweb fiber network

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FTTx in the Middle East,

Other Regions

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African Projects

Vodafone Ghana is deploying

FTTC for increasing data rate to
customers by using GPON as
technology for backhauling
street cabinet DSLAMs
Vodacom South Africa is staring
a project for delivering FTTH
services to business and high
spending residential customers
using GPON technology

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Australia and
New Zealand
In Australia, NBN Co will deploy 181,000 km of GPON
network, and 57,000 km of transit backhaul. Aerial drop
fibre to be used for 25% of households
Provides a bitstream service with equal service terms to all
ISPs, including Telstra, which will lose control of the copper.
High interest in an open PON solution to overlap to their
initial GPON in order to give ISP freedom to install their own
OLT at the Central Office
In New Zealand, the government is deploying a NZ$1.5
billion UFB (Ultra Fast Broadband Initiative) access fibre
network through Crown Fibre Holdings (CFH). FTTH to be
available to 75% (800,000 homes and businesses ) of the
New Zealand market by 2019
Vodafone New Zealand will buy Layer 2 products from the
LFCs to deliver FTTH in the retail market. GPON for
residential and point to point for large businesses. 100Mbps
down and 50Mbps up.
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THANKS!

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