Optical power budget and cost estimation for Intelligent Fiber-To-the-Home (i-FTTH)

Author

Chuan, Ng Boon ; Premadi, Aswir ; Ab-Rahman, Mohammad Syuhaimi ; Jumari, Kasmiran

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Syst. Eng., Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper calculates the optical power budget and power margin for designing a conventional passive optical network (PON)-based Fiber-To-the-Home (FTTH) and Intelligent Fiber-To-the-Home (i-FTTH) with different link length of drop fiber and optical power splitting ratio of 1×N passive optical splitter. A simple calculation is used to determine how much loss and power are available for each individual fiber link in both networks with different type of signals. The cost estimation for both networks including the additional optical monitoring, switching, and protection systems are calculated and compared.

Keywords

budgeting; costing; optical beam splitters; optical fibre losses; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical switches; power consumption; drop fiber; fiber link; intelligent fiber-to-the-home; link length; optical monitoring; optical power budget; optical power cost estimation; optical power splitting ratio; optical protection; optical switching; passive optical network; passive optical splitter; power margin; Integrated optics; Optical fibers; Optical network units; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; PON; link length; link margin; optical power splitting ratio; power margin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Langkawi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7186-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2010.5604407

Filename

5604407