Fiber optics in-buildings infrastructure paper - OEA- Lebanon
3 Decades of FTTH
1. HO05 Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
3 Decades of “Fiber-To-The-Home”
Looking back,
Where should we go?
Greg Evans
FlashPoint Technology, Inc.
Wednesday September 6th, 2006
2. Year: 1987
Why do we need Fiber To The Home?
“The Telcos are the fiber cable customer.”
“The long haul transport fiber market is
saturated.”
“We need to develop a residential fiber
market.”
3. Year: 1988 Plain
Old
Why not Fiber To The Home? Telephone
Service
Reliability must be 99.997%
Cost must be lower than POTS
Regulatory issues POTS vs. CATV
Power for lifeline POTS services
CAble
TeleVision
6. Year: 1989
Why Passive Optical Network (PON)?
Fewer Lasers
No active components in plant
Lower deployment & maintenance costs
Better overall reliability
7. Year: 1990 Major Telco FTTx POTS Trial
1991 SDV added to Trial (64 ch)
Switched
Digital
Video
1993 Company IPO $18/sh -> $52/sh
1995 VDT Deployed in NJ (385 ch)
Video
Dial
Tone
1999 Company abandons FTTx
2001 Company liquidates
8. Year: 1994 - 1998 Asymmetric
Digital
What went wrong ? Subscriber
Line
ADSL emerged
User
Generated Video content did not emerge
Content
Internet – UGC did emerge
Fiber bandwidth no longer needed
9. Year: 1998 - 2003
Rise and fall of the “dot.com”
Rise and fall of Telco broadband optimism
For North America:
Cable broadband became “king”
DSL took a second seat
Still no FTTH “killer app”
10. Year: 2005
Subscribers1
Broadband FTTH
Asia2 & Australia3 83.0M 4.6M
Europe3 56.5M 680k
North America4 50.2M 540k
Caribbean & Latin America3 5.6M trials only
1 RHK, Corning, Point Topic, Render Vanderslice (October 2005)
2 Asian statistics exclude Russia and the Middle East
3 Primarily DSL (Asia, Australia, Europe, Caribbean, & Latin America
4 Primarily Cable Modem with DSL for new adds (North America)
11. Year: 2006
What is different now?
Economics is driving FTTH
not technology.
Video Maybe the “killer app” has arrived
Voice
Data Triple Play (Convergence)
12. FTTH Worldwide Forecasts1
Year 2005 ~6M
Year 2007 ~13M
Year 2009 ~23M
Year 2011 ~64M
Country2 Subscribers Penetration Architecture
Japan 31.3M 62.6% EPON
China 12.0M 3.3% EPON
United States 10.3M 9.1% GPON/BPON
South Korea 7.6M 40.0% EPON
Taiwan 3.2M 46.4% EPON
1 Corning, In-Stat, Point Topic, Gartner
2 FTTH Worldwide Market & Technology Forecast, 2006-2011:
http://img.lightreading.com/heavyreading/pdf/hr20060616_fig1_full.gif
13. Looking Back at
3 Decades of Progress
6 Million Subscribers
Max Downstream (Mb/s) 1200 1250 2500 1250
Max Upstream (Mb/s) 8 622 2500 1250
Max PON splits (#) 8 32 64 16
14. 2005 2010 2015
Economics Technology
A challenge to the Research Community
Don’t think how are we going to make
FTTH happen.
Think, what are we going to do after
FTTH happens!!!
15. What are the enabling technologies?
Fiber Capacity
IP over WDM
Lambda Switching
Control Planes
IPv6 -> Lambda Addressing
16. The key FTTH research question
for 1987, today, & tomorrow ...
Evolution or Revolution?
What is the PON of the Future?