Panel sessions provide interactive discussions focused on topics of interest to the industry.
ASON/GMPLS
Monica Lazer; AT&T, USA
Industry wide work is advancing standards and interoperability agreements in support of intelligent optical networks. Significant advances in standardization include:
- ITU-T has completed recommendations on the Automatically Switched Optical Networks (ASON) architecture and requirements for signaling, routing, and neighbor discovery.
- IETF has completed RFCs for GMPLS signaling covering SONET/SDH, Optical Transport Networks (OTN), and is working on routing protocols extensions.
- Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has completed work on Interoperability Agreements (IAs) for UNI and E-NNI signaling, it has staged several world-wide interoperability events, and is working on updates to IAs.
- TMF is completing work on extending the Multi-Technology Network Management (MTNM) interface for management of ASON networks.
This panel focuses on network applications for ASON/GMPLS from both vendor and carrier perspectives.
FTTX: New Directions
Joseph M. Finn; Verizon Technology Organization
The last few years have seen increasing deployment of access technologies such as Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) and Fiber to the Node (FTTN). Millions of homes and businesses have already been passed with these robust fiber based networks. Large scale deployments will continue for the next several years making available to millions of new customers advanced triple play services: POTS, high speed Internet and video (IPTV and RF broadcast). The fiber access networks, requiring billions of dollars of investment, will need to provide decades of service and therefore must support technology evolution from BPON to GPON and beyond to meet the increasing bandwidth demands while simultaneously lowering the cost of providing services.
The panel presentations will provide an overview of the current state of technology and the various options under consideration by industry and standards organizations to evolve the technology. The panel will discuss the current state of FTTx technologies, architectures and deployments; near term technology advancements and deployment plans; and long term technology trends and standards activities targeting even greater service capabilities and reduced costs.
Presentation Topics:
Verizon’s FTTP BPON deployment & GPON transition
- Architecture design & service capabilities
- Current status of BPON deployments & introduction of GPON
AT&T’s FTTN U-verse IPTV architecture & deployment
- End to end reference architecture
- Service capabilities, QoS management, scaling & routing
- Current and planned deployments
Status of new initiatives by standards groups (FSAN, ITU-T and IEEE 802.3) considering next generation PONs
- Higher data rates (10 Gbps)
- Longer reach (up to 120 km)
- More wavelengths (WDM)
- Increased splitting (128 per PON)
Capability of the Optical Data Network (ODN) to support evolving technologies and reduce costs
- ODN and OSP innovations to enable higher performance with lower first costs and lower lifecycle costs
Architecture transition strategies for assimilating new technologies
- Considerations for efficiently evolving FTTx networks to increase capabilities while utilizing existing investment
Panelists:
Dr. Frank Effenberger, Director, FTTx Advanced Technologies, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
John George, Director, FTTx Solutions, OFS
Ron Heron, Director, Network Strategy, Alcatel-Lucent
Kuo-Hui Liu, Executive Director, Lightspeed Network & Services Architecture
AT&T Labs, Inc.
Vincent O’Byrne, Director, Access Network Design & Integration, Verizon Technology
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