Assessment of ETTx

Deployment in the
Access Network
Othman Al Jubair
Hadi Hmida
Mohammed Al Osaimi

STC/ R&D
Agenda

Part 1:
• Background
• Ethernet in the First Mile over X

Part 2:
• ETTx Implementation Examples
• Field Trial : Deployment of EFM Fiber

Part 3:
• ETTx Issues
• Recommendations
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 Part 1: FTTx and ETTx
FTTx : all-inclusive term for access technologies which use fiber

• “All-Optical” is the vision for future wired networks:

use fiber Æ WAN, MAN, and Access
• The Optical Access portion of the network will bring:
– Fiber to the Home (FTTH) and Fiber to the Business (FTTB)
– Fiber to the Curb or Cabinet (FTTC)

ETTx: is all-inclusive term for access technologies which use Ethernet

• Ethernet to the Home (ETTH) and Ethernet to the Business (ETTB)

• Ethernet to the Curb or Cabinet (ETTC)

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Part 1: FTTx, ETTx (Cont.)

Why will Ethernet succeed more than

other broadband access technologies?

Today, there are nearly 500 million Ethernet ports

deployed worldwide. Ethernet offers:

1. Much higher speeds than cable or DSL can offer.

2. Unmatched flexibility for bandwidth allocation.
3. Ease of deployment

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Emerging wired Access technologies

Ethernet in the Passive Optical

First Mile Network (PON)

EFM Copper EFM Fiber EFM PON ATM o Fiber

(P2P) (P2P) (EPON) (APON)

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 Main Characteristics

EFM o Copper EFM o Fiber EFM o PON APON

Copper (Cat 3)
Media (Eo DSL)
SM Fiber SM Fiber SM Fiber

2Mbps 2.7km 155Mbps

Speed 10Mbps ~0.75km
100Mbps-1Gb 1Gb
622Mbp

Up to at least Up to at least Up to at least

Distance Up to ~3km
10Km 20Km 20Km

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 EFM Copper

First Mile Second Mile

EFM Copper Network

2Mbps >= 2700m Å
LRE ATM
CPE

10Mbps ~ 750m Å EFM Copper

SRE

Aggregator

Network

IP IP IP
Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet ATM, FR
etc
Ph Ph Ph Ph Ph Ph

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 EFM Fiber

L2/L3
L2
L2 Switch Switch POP Router
Switch

10/100 Base XX 100Base FX/GB GB GB

IP IP IP
Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet ATM, FR
etc
Ph Ph Ph Ph Ph

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Part-1
EPON

1- Point to Point Ethernet

Æ N fibers
Æ 2N optical transceivers

2- Curb Switched Ethernet

Æ 1 fiber
Æ Minimum fiber/space in CO
Æ 2N+2 optical transceivers
Æ Electrical power in the field

3- Ethernet PON (EPON)

Æ 1 fiber
Æ Minimum fibers/space in CO
Æ N+1 optical transceivers
Æ No electrical power in field
Æ Drop throughput up to trunk rate
Æ Downstream broadcast (video)
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Part-1
EPON (Cont.)

Headend
Optical Local Exchange
Network
Units
Passive Optical
Splitter Fiber O
L Network
T

IP IP IP
Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet ATM, etc
Ph Ph Ph Ph Ph

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Part-1
EPON (Cont.)

• Ethernet PONs are Point-to-Multipoint Passive Optical Networks

• Used for FTTC, FTTB, FTTH,
• Provides voice, data and video services (POTS, Ethernet, T1/T3, etc)
• Provides dynamically allocated bandwidth (1 to 1000 Mbps) and service to
each ONU
• OLT interfaces to Metro/Core Equipment
• Passive Optical Splitters eliminate active electronics in the local loop
• Optical Network Units behave like DSL or Cable Modems, on speed
• Typical deployments have 4 to 32 Optical Network Units per OLT
• Single fiber deployments with 1550 (1510) nm downstream and 1310 nm
upstream
• Downstream is a broadcast point to multipoint
• Upstream requires a multiple access protocol for multipoint to point
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(TDMA)
Part-1
EPON Downstream
Subscriber

1
• Downstream channel uses true broadcast ONU 1 User 1

• 802.3 Frames 3
2

N 2
1 ONU 2 User 2
3
3
OLT 2
N
3 1 N 2 3 1
3
3 3
User 3
Splitter 3 1 N ONU 3
2
Headend 3
3
1
•
N •
CO
OLT = Optical Line Terminal 2
ONU = Optical Network Unit
• N
3
User N
ONU N

Downstream Æ Ethernet frames are broadcast and extracted based on MAC add of frames

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Part-1 EPON Upstream
Subscriber

1 1
• Upstream time slicing ONU 1 User 1

• No collisions
• No packet fragmentation
1 2 2

1 ONU 2 User 2

OLT 2
2

3
User 3
3 2 2 1 1 Splitter 3 ONU 3
Headend
•
N •
CO 3
• N N
User N
ONU N

Upstream Å TDMA; variable time slots, variable frame size

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Part-1 EPON TRx

Data ONU
IN TX
Medium λ1
OUT Access WDM ONU
Logic
TX λ2
Data
TX IN
Medium
WDM Access OUT
Logic
RX
• Single Fiber Point to Multipoint (P2MP)
• Full-duplex mode (no CSMA/CD)
• Subscribers see traffic only from Headend, not from each other.
• λ1 / λ2 :1550/1310, 1310+/1310- and 1490/1310nmptics 14
Part-1
EPON Objectives

- Point-to-Multipoint Passive Optical Network

- Covering local subscriber network distances >=10 km
- Using standard Gigabit Ethernet rates 1000 Mbps
- Single mode Fiber SMF

- Covering minimum 16-to-1 split ratio >=1:16

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Part-1
Examples: EPON Deployment

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Part-1

EPON Applications

Headend MMDS/LMDS
Local Exchange Wireless Nodes

O Fiber
RAN
Network L NDLC
T
CATV
Optical Node

FTTx
ONU

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Part-1
xPON Comparison

EPON APON

Layer 2 Protocol Ethernet ATM

Transport Frame Fixed Cell

Speed 100Mbps,1GE, 155Mbps-622Mbp

10GE
standard IEEE 802.3 ITU G.983
ITU?
Upstream TDMA TDMA

Cost Ethernet Switch ATM Switch

Delivery POTS, Data POTS, POTS, Data

Data
VOIP, IP Video
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Part-1

Advantages of Optical Ethernet (EPON) vs. ATM (APON)

• LANs are ~90% Ethernet today

• Byte life begins and ends as IP/Ethernet
• Ease of Scalability, Management
• Cable Modems and DSL Modems have Ethernet Interfaces
• Many IP/Ethernet chipset solutions
• Future cost curve of components (electrical, optical) steep for Ethernet
• Ethernet is a Universal standard, no variations
• Ethernet beat FDDI, Token Ring, Fiber Channel, ATM in the LAN
• Work force Solution: Many LAN technicians comfortable with Ethernet

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 Part-2

1. ETTx Implementation Examples

2. Field Trial : Deployment of EFM Fiber

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Part-2 EFM over Fiber

N M S S y s te m

h Et IP /M P L S N e tw o r k
E th - S w
Sw h it E d g e R o u te r
L
c h Et
E t h .S w E th - S w
E t3 S Sw h it
h. w EFM c
F ib e r G b E th e rn e t
in te r fa c e s
EFM
F ib e r
IA D L3
L
E t h .S w
E
E th . S w
CPEs E t3 S
h. w

tL
E th . S w

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M e tr o R i n g ( R P R )
10G b
L3 L3
IA D E th . S w E th . S w

CPEs .
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t ht.SSw
L3
E th . S w
3
h. w
G b E th e rn e t
P o rts

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h Et CPEs
E th - S w
Sw h it
c

G b E th e rn e t
p o rts
E
tLE th . S w EFM

h3
F ib e r

G b E th e rn e t
p o rts .

EE
L
t ht.SSw
3
h. w
F a s t E th e r n e t
p o rts

IA D
C P E 's (U s e rs )

D ifferen t d e p lo y m en t arc h itec tu res p o s s ib le w ith th e F E A s o lu tio n

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EFM (Cont.)

IP /M P L S N e tw o rk
E d g e R o u te r N M S S y s te m

G b E th e rn e t
FW p o rts

V 5 .2
hE t PSTN
E th - S w
Sw h it
c
V id e o TAG
S e rv e r G b E th e rn e t
p o rts F ib e r ~ 2 0 K m
E
tL
E th . S w

G b E t h e r n e th
3
ERN

p o rts F ib e r ~ 2 0 K m
.
I n B u id in g L
E t h .S w
E t3 S
h. w
C o p p e r / F ib e r 1 0 0 - 2 K m

F a s t E th e rn e t
p o rts

IA D PBX
C P E 's ( U s e r s )

E F M F ib e r B as ic C o n fig u ra tio n o f th e tria l

Part-2
Other examples of Ethernet
Deployment
Metro Ethernet
Ethernet LL

GigE Ring C7513

CE
FE
PE
CAT 3550 – B2
C7513
STC IP MPLS VPN Network B5-C1-S4
PE
GE
CE FE CAT 3550 – POP
C12406 ATM Switch
CE
CAT 3550 – B1 Serial/DDN

B6-C2-S4
B2-C1-S2
CE CE
FE FE
C10720 – B4 CE
DPT/RPR Ring

B6-C1-S5
FE CE
B1-C1-S1 B1-C2-S1
C10720 – B3
Ethernet
Over DSL
CE FE FE CE
B4-C2-S3
RPR
Ethernet
B3-C1-S3 B3-C2-S2
 Field Trial Scenario

Murabbaa Malaz
Samba Site-2 Exchange Samba Site-1
Exchange
Cisco 7500 Cisco 7500
100 Mbps

100 Mbps
Cisco 7513
1000 Mbps STC - VPN 100/1000
Cisco 7513
Catalyst 6500 L3 Switch Mbps
STC's IP/MPLS B/B
Catalyst6500 L3 Switch
- VPN
Mbps
100

- VPN

1000 Mbps

Mbps
100
L2 Switch 100/1000 Mbps
X

L2 Switch
TAG 1000 Mbps
100 base-T

NMS System
AXC 706

base-Tx
100

100
Mbps
100 base-Tx

TAS

IAD
IAD
PSTN Backbone
100 base-Tx

V5.2 on E1
100 base-Tx
100Base-Tx

L3 Switch

V5.2 on E1

100 base-Tx

100 base-Tx
Analog

100 base-Tx

100 base-Tx
Analog
IP-PBX
Lucent
5ESS
STB Siemens
PC EWSD Video
Server
Analog

Analog
PC phone
T.V Analog Firewall
IP- Phone
phone Server

Field Trial

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 Observations

1. Alternation of the demarcation end points of the

access network

2. Single Topology Solution

3. Switches vs. Routers

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 Observations
1. Use of Layer 2 switching elements
2. Support of MPLS VPN
3. Targeted User Segments
4. Capacity Planning/Dimensioning
5. Double Wiring Customer Premises may not be avoided
6. Billing Capability
7. Single loop vs. Ring
8. ETTx technology is currently at the infancy stage but is
evolving fast. Large-scale deployment of ETTx may be
full of unpleasant surprises. Care shall be exercised
neither to lock on to a single solution nor to deploy
massive network at once.

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