Implemention of a survivable EPON system supporting direct communication between ONUs

Author

Wang, Zhen ; Wang, Liqiang ; Chen, Xue

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Opt. Commun. & Lightwave Technol. Minist. of Educ., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

14-15 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This article proposes and implements a survivable Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) system supporting direct communication between optical network units (ONU) without optical line terminal´s (OLT) forwarding. An original centralized automatic protection switching (APS) control mechanism is proposed and implemented by FPGA. The actual test results show that our system´s protection switching time is far below 50ms which is commonly required in EPON.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; optical fibre LAN; optical switches; APS control mechanism; FPGA; ONU; automatic protection switching control mechanism; direct communication; optical line terminal forwarding; optical network units; protection switching time; survivable EPON system; survivable Ethernet passive optical network; Automatic control; Centralized control; Communication system control; EPON; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Protection switching; System testing; Dual-tree architecture; EPON; FPGA; Protection switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2010 19th Annual

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7597-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOCC.2010.5510673

Filename

5510673