5th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities

Research Article

Testbed for Experimental Analysis on Seamless Evolution Architectures from GPON to High Capacity WDM-PON

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976198,
        author={Gianluca Berrettini and L. Giorgi and F. Ponzini and F. Cavaliere and P. Ghiggino and L. Pot\'{\i} and A. Bogoni},
        title={Testbed for Experimental Analysis on Seamless Evolution Architectures from GPON to High Capacity WDM-PON},
        proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and  Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2009},
        month={5},
        keywords={GPON Evolution  Reflective EAM  Reflective SOA  WDM-PON},
        doi={10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976198}
    }
    
  • Gianluca Berrettini
    L. Giorgi
    F. Ponzini
    F. Cavaliere
    P. Ghiggino
    L. Potì
    A. Bogoni
    Year: 2009
    Testbed for Experimental Analysis on Seamless Evolution Architectures from GPON to High Capacity WDM-PON
    TRIDENTCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976198
Gianluca Berrettini1,*, L. Giorgi2,*, F. Ponzini2, F. Cavaliere2, P. Ghiggino2, L. Potì3, A. Bogoni3,*
  • 1: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy
  • 2: Ericsson Research Italy Pisa, Italy
  • 3: CNIT Pisa, Italy
*Contact email: gianluca.berrettini@sssup.it, luca.giorgi@ericsson.com, antonella.bogoni@cnit.it

Abstract

The reuse of existing infrastructure whilst keeping unaffected the legacy equipment is a crucial feature for the evolution of gigabit passive optical networks (GPONs) towards higher capacity wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical networks (WDM-PONs). In this paper a testbed for the evaluation of simple and cost effective GPON evolutions will be presented. A comprehensive set of WDM-PON architectures based on remote wavelengths distribution and wavelengths reuse for upstream (US) transmission will be proposed. Both 2.5Gb/s and 10Gb/s (symmetric traffic) have been taken into account and experimentally evaluated in terms of bit error rate (BER) on the same testing bench. System perspectives and limitations are also discussed.