ITU-T PON standards -

progress and recent activities

Q2/SG15
 What is PON?
• Passive Optical Network (PON) system
• A point-to-multipoint optical communication system.
• The most popular system to realize Fiber To The Home (FTTH) in the world.
• Multiple (e.g. 16 to 128) ONUs communicate with an OLT via optical splitter(s).

Central office ONU1

TDMA ONU2
OLT

…
Optical
Reference splitter
point
ONU n
Reference
OLT: Optical Line Terminal, ONU: Optical Network Unit point
TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access
 Application areas of PON

ONU FTTCurb/Cab

OLT ONU FTTH

Optical
splitter
FTTBuilding
ONU

ONU
FTTOffice
OLT

Optical FTTCell
splitter ONU (Mobile Backhaul/Fronthaul)
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 Q2/15: Optical Access Networks

• Q2/15 belongs to WP1 of SG15

• Over the past, Q2 has worked on several generations of PON
– G.982 (pi-PON) Mostly of historical interest
– G.983 (A/B-PON) Perhaps 10M ONUs deployed
– G.984 (G-PON) Several 100M ONUs deployed
– G.987 (XG-PON)
– G.9807 (XGS-PON) Both beginning to grow now
– G.989 (NG-PON2) Ecosystem building stage
• Additionally, several point to point systems were specified
– G.985 (Bidi 100Mb/s Ethernet access) (aka 100Base-BX)
– G.986 (Bidi 1Gb/s Ethernet access) (aka 1000Base-BX)
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 Recent progress in PON standards

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 XGS-PON
• 10-Gbit/s Symmetric PON system based on TDM and TDMA

ONU
10 Gbit/s (TDM) ONU

…
…
OLT
10 Gbit/s (TDMA) ONU
ONU

…
ONU
#1 #2 #3
Time
TDMA
TDM: Time Divison Multiplexing,
TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access.

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 NG-PON2
• 40-Gbit/s capable PON system based on TWDM (Primary) and PtP WDM overlay (Optional)
2.5～10 Gbit/s (TDMA)
TWDM-PON OLT ONU
ONU
(Primary) CT WDM

…
…
(4 wavelengths) l1

…
CT ONU
ONU
l1

…
Time l4

ll4
OLT
PtP WDM-PON CT ONU
WDM

…
(Optional)
…

CT
ONU
Time
l1 TWDM: Time and Wavelength Division Multiplexing
P2P: Point to Point
WDM: Wavelength Division Multiplexing
ll4 CT: Channel Termination
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 FTTH market breakdown

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 Higher speed PON and RAN related activities

Oct January June January Oct

2016 2017 December 2018 2018

New project New project New New projects Target

started started proposals started 3 agreement
G.sup.HSP G.sup.5GP Higher speed G.hsp.xxx G.sup.5GP
PON & common G.9806 4
TC layer Agreed
1 2 standards 3 1 2
G.sup.HSP

1 Higher speed PON (>10Gbps) whitepaper G.sup.HSP (agreed in 01-2018)

2 5G fronthaul in the context of PON G.sup.5GP

3 New higher speed PON Recommendations G.hsp.req/comTC/50Gpmd/TWDMpmd

4 New higher speed PtP BiDi optical access G.9806

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 New Higher Speed PON Recommendations

G.hsp.Req: Requirements for higher speed PONs

– Meant to be a collector of all PON requirements, working to find application sets that
define reasonable systems
G.hsp.ComTC: Specifications for a converged TC layer
– Meant to cover all HSP systems (single and multiple wavelengths, fixed and tunable optics),
and maximum commonality with other systems
G.hsp.50Gpmd: Specifications of fixed 50G PMD
G.hsp.TWDMpmd: Specifications of the higher rate TWDM PMD
– Consider tunable ONU optics
G.9806: Higher speed BiDi single fibre point to point optical access systems

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 Support 5G transport applications with PON
4 potential use cases identified in ITU-T G.sup.5GP
Very low latency services

General purpose cloud

network

Small cells in dense

urban areas

Hybrid fronthaul link

F1 and Fx Interfaces: Higher and lower layer interface in the future mobile fronthaul under discussion in 3GPP,
11 CU: Central Unit, DU: Distributed Unit, RU: Radio Unit.
 Use case example of a dedicated wireless PON
illustrated in ITU-T G.sup.5GP

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 Coexistence of ITU PON Technologies using WDM
XGS-PON

XG-SPON G.652 Fiber

OLT CE 1xN G-PON
1577/1270 nm*

CE** (Co-Existence Element) NG-PON2

Example of a type of Coexistence Element

defined in Appendix I of G.984.5
1490/1310 nm*
G-PON
OLT
1600/1544 nm*
NG-PON2
OLT
*Downstream and Upstream Center Wavelengths (nm)
**Co-existence Element has been defined in ITU-T G.984.5 Amendment 1 along with additional Coexistence solutions

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 Backup

Q2/SG15

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 Key capabilities of 5G networks specified in ITU IMT-2020

PeakPeak
Data Rate
data rate
User Experienced
User experienced Data Rate Expected improvement from LTE/Pre-5G to 5G
data rate
(Gbits/s)
(Gbit/s) (Mbits/s)
(Mbit/s)

2020 100
100
Parameter 4G/4.5G 5G Increased by
IMT-2020 150 Mbps -
10 Peak data rate 20 Gbps 10 – 200x
1 1 Gbps
AreaArea
Traffic
traffic Spectrum
Capacity Spectrum User
capacity Efficiency
efficiency 100 Mbps -
(Mbit/s/m
(Mbit/s/m22) )
1010 3x
experienced 10 Mbps 10 – 100x
1´ 3´ 1 Gbps
1 data rate
0.1
Mobility 350 km/h 500 km/h 1.5x

1´ uRLLC: 1 ms
10´
350
400 Latency 10ms - 50ms 10x
100x
100´ 500
500
eMBB: 10 ms
Network IMT-advanced Mobility
Mobility
Network
(km/h) Connection
Energy
energy efficiency
(km/h) 1K - 100K/km2 106/km2 10 – 1000x
density
Efficiency 5
10 10
Traffic density 0.1 Mbps/m2 10 Mbps/m2 100x
106 6
10 11

Connection
Connection density
Density2
Latency
Latency
(ms)
Transport bandwidth grows 10-100x from 4G to 5G
(devices/km )
(devices/km2) (ms)
M.2083-03 Source: ITU-R M.2083-0, 9/2015
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8 options to split signal processing functions in fronthaul

• Data rate scales with

user traffic for split
Option
Option 1 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5 Option 6 Option 7 Option 8
option 2 though 7
• Meet 5G bandwidth
and Latency
Requirements
• Relationship between
RAN protocol and
fronthaul architecture

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 What is PON?
• Passive Optical Network (PON) system is a point-to-multipoint optical communication sytem.
• Multiple (e.g. 16 to 128) ONUs comminicate with an OLT via optical splitter(s).
• Popular PON systems use TDMA in upstream access.

Header ONU 1 ONU 2 Header ONU n

data data data
…… Time
PON frames
Central office ONU1
TDMA ONU2
OLT

…
Optical
Reference splitter
point
ONU n
OLT: Optical Line Terminal, ONU: Optical Network Unit Reference
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TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access point
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