Control aspects of a TDMA system for passive optical networks

Author

Clarke, D.E.A. ; Hale, M.A. ; Chuter, J.B.

Author_Institution

British Telecom. Res. Lab., Ipswich, UK

fYear

1990

fDate

3-6 Sep 1990

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

37

Abstract

The authors describe a time-division multiple-access (TDMA) system developed at British Telecom Research Laboratories for telephony over passive optical networks (TPON). The system is called the TPON Bit Transport System (BTS). A bit-interleaved technique coupled with efficient control protocols facilitates the design of reliable, low-complexity, and low-power-consumption TPON hardware at both head-end and remote node. The BTS subsystem for the remote node has been successfully integrated in two ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) devices and the BTS head-end supporting up to 128 nodes is contained within a compact plug-in module. The main elements of the embedded BTS control system for implementing and supervising an actively ranged bit-interleaved TDMA protocol are described

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; optical links; protocols; subscriber loops; time division multiple access; ASIC devices; BTS subsystem; TDMA system; TPON Bit Transport System; bit-interleaved technique; control protocols; passive optical networks; subscriber loops; telephony; Application specific integrated circuits; Control systems; Coupling circuits; Integrated circuit reliability; Optical control; Passive optical networks; Protocols; Telecommunication control; Telephony; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Symposium, 1990. ITS '90 Symposium Record., SBT/IEEE International

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITS.1990.175568

Filename

175568