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
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.
