Performance of 10G-EPON

Author

Roy, Rajesh ; Kramer, Glen ; Hajduczenia, Marek ; Silva, Henrique J.

Author_Institution

Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA

Volume

49

Issue

11

fYear

2011

fDate

11/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

85

Abstract

10G-EPON system specifications have reached the end of the development cycle, with the release of the final standard version. Recent announcements of first practical 10G-EPON demonstrations [1, 2] indicate rapid adoption of these specifications by system vendors. Given the growing interest in 10G-EPON, it is useful to examine the worst-case scenario performance of this new first-mile access network in both downstream and upstream channels. Due to the number of technical changes introduced to 10G-EPON when compared with 1G-EPON, the obtained performance figures are substantially different from those of its predecessor. The results presented in this article have been obtained through an analytical model and confirmed by detailed simulation.

Keywords

optical fibre LAN; passive optical networks; telecommunication channels; 10G-EPON system; 1G-EPON; Ethernet passive optical network; downstream channels; first-mile access network; upstream channels; worst-case scenario performance; Bandwidth allocation; EPON; Forward error correction; IEEE 802.3 Standards; Lasers; Logic gates; Optical network units;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2011.6069713

Filename

6069713