The Importance of the Management Plane for FTTP

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The Importance of the Management Plane for FTTP

• A Perspective of a USA Service Provider

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The Telecom Industry is Changing

• Last Year Marked a significant Change in the
  Telecommunications Industry in the USA
• Traditional Wireline companies saw a loss in
  overall access lines, despite an overall gain in
  Homes Passed
• The oldest telecommunications company in the
  world, left telecom as a technology and evolved
  to merge with Cable as a transport
• Users appetite for bandwidth is accelerating
• MOBILITY HAS BECOME THE PARADIGM

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A USA Perspective

• 160 Million Americans have Mobile Phones
• 24 Million have 1st Generation Broadband
  connection
• Wireless Networks are allowing Broadband on the
  Go
• Picture/Camera Phones outsold every other phone
  type in the USA

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• Broadband Mobility
• Transformation

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Goal in the Industry

• Goal is to deliver 100Mbs capacity to the
  customer, no matter where they are, at home, at
  work, or on the go.

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Where do we get there from here?

• Reinventing our networks around broadband, packet
  and Voice over IP technologies
• Vision is of an integrated Multi-megabit network
  that will fuel the growth of high-technology
  industry

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Some Statistics

• 46 Million of our telephone lines are equipped
  for DSL
• More than 36 Million people each day use Verizon
  Wireless
• Serve over 7 Million Small Businesses and over
  80 of the Fortune 1000
• Over 100 Million people uses Verizon Networks
  every day
• Currently support over 2 Billion Peer-to-Peer
  connections every day

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Key to survival in a transitioning market

• Deploy leading edge technology
• High on the bandwidth chain
• Good Service
• Great Value Proposition

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What is FTTP?

• Fiber To The x (FTTx, with x being the C for
  the Curb, or P for to the premises) is an
  important, emerging technology that will provide
  customers with new feature-rich services and
  improved quality of current services.

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Is FTTP the answer?

• Why FTTP?
• Why Now?

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Why FTTP?

• Consumers will require additional bandwidth to
  the home in the near future
• Competition is beginning to offer a triple-play
  (i.e., voice, video, and data) bundle
• FTTP provides SPs with the ability to provide
  cutting edge technology and best-in-class
  services
• Deploying a fiber optic cable to each premises
  will provide an extraordinary amount of bandwidth
  for future services
• An FTTP based network will result in less
  operational expenses

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Why FTTP? (Contd)
FTTP has the necessary bandwidth to support near
term and long term services

• Today's applications are continuing to drive
  demand for increased bandwidth
• Historically, unforeseen applications have
  quickly consumed available bandwidth and driven
  the development of higher speed platforms

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Why Now? (Contd)

• SPs are losing access lines
• Bundling with the triple-play should reduce the
  churn
• Competition with cable providers is forcing
  action
• Cable Modems currently have over 60 of the HSD
  market share and the gap is expected to increase
• Cable companies are beginning to offer voice over
  cable
• A number of IP telephony trials are currently
  underway
• Time Warner in Portland, ME
• Comcast in Coatesville, PA
• Cablevision in LI / NJ
• Experience suggests that cable will be very
  successful, absent an effective competitive
  response.

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Matching Application and Network Requirements
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Deployment of FTTH

• Plan is to reach 1 Million Homes by end of 2004
  in the 20Mb to 30Mb rate
• Double that rate as we move into 2005
• Reach 100Mb by 2007

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Picture Messaging
Voice
Data
Video Conferencing
Common Protocol Common Infrastructure
Video Service
Voice over IP
Gaming
Virtual Private Network
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FTTP Basics

• Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Primary
  source of PON standards. Created by service
  providers in order to facilitate suitable
  standards.
• FSAN Standards ITU-T G.983
• Passive Optical Network (PON) a
  point-to-multipoint local access Network.
• Optical Line Terminal (OLT) active component
  typically located in the central office.
• Passive Optical Splitter distributes optical
  signal from a single fiber to multiple fibers,
  merges signals from all fibers, connects them
  to the OLT receiver.
• Optical Network Terminal (ONT) housed in a
  network interface device enclosure.

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FTTP Lingo

• PON Passive Optical Network
• OLT Optical Line Terminal
• ONT Optical Network Terminal
• FTTP Fiber to the Premises
• APON ATM PON
• BPON Broadband PON
• GPON Gigabit PON

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PON Architecture FSAN Standard ITU G.983
EDFA (Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier)
Video 1550 nm
Voice Data
Voice/Data Video
OLT (Optical Line Terminal)
Downstream 1490 nm
1490nm/1310nm, 1550nm
ONT (Optical Network Terminal)
Optical Couplers(WDM)
Upstream 1310 nm
1x32
Optical Splitter
Video (l)
Data (AAL5)
POTS (AAL2)
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FSAN PON Solution How Does an APON/BPON Work?
Customer Premise ONT (Optical Network
Termination)
Outside Plant Optical Distribution Network
CO, Feeder OLT (Optical Line Termination)
Downstream 622 Mbps _at_ 1490nm
ATM switch, PSTN, Internet
Services to user POTS, Internet Access
Passive Optical Splitter
Upstream 155 Mbps _at_ 1310nm
Upstream Time Division Multiple Access
Downstream Time Division Multiplex
ONT
A
ONT
A
A
ONT
B
ONT
B
ONT
C
ONT
C
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Current Standards
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Current Standards

• FCC 76.605 - Multichannel Video and Cable
  Television Service Requirements, Technical
  Standards. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47,
  Volume 4, Part 76, Subpart K, Section 76.605
  (47CFR76.605).
• ITU-T Recommendation G.983.1 - Broadband optical
  access systems based on Passive Optical Networks
  (PON).

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Current Standards

• ITU-T Recommendation G.983.1amd1 - Broadband
  optical access systems based on Passive Optical
  Networks (PON) amendment 1.
• ITU-T Recommendation G.983.1amd2 - Broadband
  optical access systems based on Passive Optical
  Networks (PON) amendment 2

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Current Standards

• ITU-T Recommendation G.983.2 - The ONT management
  interface specification for B-PON.
• ITU-T Recommendation G.983.3 amd1 - A Broadband
  optical access systems with increased service
  capability by wavelength allocation amendment1.
• ITU-T Recommendation G.983.4 - A Broadband
  optical access system with increased service
  capability using dynamic bandwidth assignment.

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Current Standards

• ITU-T Recommendation G.983.5 - A Broadband
  optical access system with increased
  survivability
• ITU-T Recommendation G.983.6 - ONT management and
  control management interface specification with
  protection features
• ITU-T Recommendation G.983.7 - ONT management and
  control management interface specification for
  DBA B-PON systems

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Current Standards

• Telcordia technologies GR909 - Generic Criteria
  for Fiber in the Loop systems.
• TR-TSY-000008 - Digital Interface Between the
  SLC-96 Digital Loop Carrier System and a Local
  Digital Switch, Issue 2, 8/87, Revision 1, 10/94

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Current Standards

• GR-303-CORE - Integrated Digital Loop Carrier
  Generic Requirements, Objectives and Interface,
  Issue 4, 12/2000
• GR-57-CORE - Telcordia Functional Criteria for
  Digital Loop Carrier Systems, Issue 1, 10/01
• TSGR, FR-440 - Telcordia (Bellcore) Transmission
  System Generic Requirements

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SO, What is missing?

• No Standards currently exist for the Service
  Management or Network Management of Co-merged
  networks

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What is Needed?

• Requirements for Service Management
• Common Protocol-neutral models of these
  interfaces
• Common agreed upon Protocols to support the
  Service and Network Management Interfaces

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Standards will drive the speed with which newer
technologies can be delivered
Picture Messaging
Voice
Data
Video Conferencing
Common Protocol Common Infrastructure
Video Service
Voice over IP
Gaming
Virtual Private Network
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So what areas do these new standards need to
cover?
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A brief look at a Verizon answer to that Question

• Iobi and Verizon-one

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How do we create this new set of Service
Management Standards?

• Rethink the applicability of our current B2B
  models for SP to SP operations
• Begin aggressively the development of C2B
  interfaces by
• Focusing on requirements
• Evaluate the applicability of current standards
• Understand the Value Proposition of standards in
  this area

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Additional Considerations

• Home Network Selection is currently ill defined
  in terms of a practical solution to support all
  data types
• Current Home Gateways do not offer the security
  needed to support the multi-SAP models
• QoS models and requirements are not defined for
  all Home Networks or Gateways