POF Newsletter Mar Apr 2010

Vol. 20 No. 2 March/April 2010

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Newsletter Covering Worldwide Developments in the Technology, Market, and Application of Plastic Optical Fiber

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CONFERENCES

POF Symposium @ OFC/NFOEC 2010 a standing-room-only success; presentations now available

On March 25, POFTO hosted the “POF Symposium @ NFOEC/OFC 2010” on the show floor. Over a dozen presenta-tions were made over a three-hour period on the latest devel-opment of POF and its applications. The audience filled up the main seating area and people were standing in the aisles.

Of special interest was a presentation by AT&T on their experience in wiring four homes in the Northern California area.

The objective was to learn how installers would react to POF and what was needed in the way of new equipment and

CEDIA EXPO 2010 registration to open June 1, 2010.................................2

Firecomms licenses Op-toLock to Suttle for new POF wall plate..........................3

High spirits at second MOST Forum...............................4

Highly Sensitive Bend Sen-sor Based on Bragg Grating in Eccentric Core Polymer Fiber.................................6

FTTx POF products and solu-tions for ‘the last hundred me-ters’..................................9

Home networking using Eth-ernet over POF...............10

See page 7...11 for ElectronicBRICKS™ company profile.

Source: ElectronicBRICKS™

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interfaces to make this a viable option for AT&T installation of home wiring.

Copies of the presentations are available at http://www.pofto.org/home/node/88 with your POFTO Member login. If you are not currently a member, you may register on the page to re-ceive a special free login by email to download these presentations.

CEDIA EXPO 2010 registration to open June 1, 2010

CEDIA EXPO is the No. 1 tradeshow in the residential electronic systems industry. At-tending CEDIA EXPO gives you an advantage over the competition by providing the latest tech-nologies, free training on the latest products, and the industry’s best education with CEDIA University courses. CEDIA EXPO gives you the best strategies to profit in home entertainment, environmental control, energy management, green technology, home health, security, and more.

CEDIA EXPO is your place to meet and connect with the industry’s best professionals. If you are a current professional in home entertain-ment, security, lighting control, environmental control, energy management, retrofit, home con-trol, home health, home theater, audio systems, integration, or are someone looking to break into the residential electronic systems industry, you need to be at CEDIA EXPO.

For more information, please visit: http://www.cedia.net/expo.

DEPLOYMENTS

Orange launches OptoLock-enabled fiber-optic home installations

Firecomms announced that its OptoLock transceiver is a key component of the home net-working solution being deployed by Orange. A key brand of France Telecom, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators, Orange is deploying POF as the medium of choice in the home to reduce installation times, guaran-

tee network reliability, and enhance customer satisfaction ratings.

Orange’s OptoLock-enabled fiber-optic kits offer a reliable home networking solution by allowing the distribution of a POF network throughout the house.

The ready-to-install fiber-optic kit enables Orange customers and installers to connect a TV or computer within a high-speed home network in just minutes, minimizing the visual impact of the connection due to POF’s ultrathin diameter.

Orange has cited technical performance, simplicity of installation, and discreet design as benefits of the fiber-optic kit. According to Orange field trial results, 98 percent of users expressed deep satisfaction with this innovative technology.

“This POF product offering by one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world demonstrates the overwhelming benefits of POF to operators and customers alike,” said Hugh Hennessy, vice president of sales and marketing for Firecomms.

“This deployment is one of many as op-erators and installers seek ways to overcome the disadvantages associated with traditional wired technologies.”

The design of OptoLock enables the fiber to be cut and terminated to the exact required length on site, enabling even the most novice consumer to quickly and easily terminate the bare optical fiber. This means that OptoLock enables all the advantages of optical fiber to be brought into the home with do-it-yourself simplicity and costs. The benefits of this simple, robust high-speed interface will be significant as high-speed services like 100Mbps IPTV are delivered into the home.

AT&T recognizes Firecomms’ participation in completed and pending POF proof-of-concept studies

AT&T has acknowledged Firecomms’s participation in a successful proof-of-concept


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study of POF as a connectivity option for its U-verse IPTV service.

At the latest OFC Conference & Exposi-tion, staff members of AT&T Network Operations presented results of a 2009 POF proof-of-con-cept study held in California’s bay area. Due to the on-site evaluations and favorable comments from both U-verse premises technicians and their supervisors, AT&T Network Operations will continue to pursue investigations of OptoLock-based POF home networks as a viable option for the connectivity of U-verse services.

During a panel session at the recent Broadband Properties 2010 Summit, AT&T area manager Robert Michetich discussed the poten-tial benefits of POF connectivity, including its reduction in installation time, immunity to noise, and use of future-proof technology.

A larger proof-of-concept study by AT&T, which includes a 350-unit MDU and potentially 50 single-family homes, is pending. Like the first study, this project will include POF switches, passive wall plates, and media converters, as well as integrated set-top boxes, all powered by Firecomms OptoLock technology.

“Recognizing the merits of POF deploy-ment to guarantee network reliability, reduce subscriber installation costs, and maximize ARPU (average revenue per user), operators worldwide are increasing the use of POF-based networking solutions,” said Firecomms’ vice president of sales and marketing for the Ameri-cas, Lawrence Thorne. “Firecomms’ continues to expand its work with the POF equipment vendor community to ensure the development of the broadest variety of POF-based network-ing solutions.”

BUSINESS

Firecomms licenses OptoLock to Suttle for new POF wall plate

Firecomms announced that it has li-censed its OptoLock interconnect system to Suttle, a supplier of communication connectivity

products for the telecom and datacom industries worldwide. OptoLock, an easy-to-use, low-cost housing for instant termination of bare POF, provides plugless terminations that allow for simpler, quicker connections of communications and infotainment network devices.

“Suttle is excited to offer the first commer-cially available POF to POF passive OptoLock wall plate adapter system, which we’ve added to our SpeedStar line of modular connectiv-ity,” said Bill Heuer, senior product manager. “Firecomms has pioneered the development of POF as a low-cost alternative for copper cabling in home networking, which we look forward to support.”

“With the rapid adoption of OptoLock by an increasing number of equipment providers, we are pleased to license our technology to Suttle, a well established telecom vendor that has been supplying communication equipment to companies worldwide since 1910,” said Lawrence Thorne, Firecomms’ vice president of sales and marketing, the Americas. “Suttle, like all suppliers of OptoLock products, will manufac-ture its product based on a common mechanical specification for the fiber interface.”

Suttle’s new SpeedStar OptoLock wall plate adapter system will be available in Q2 2010.

COMOSS announces Gigabit POF products for POF network solutions

COMOSS is launching a series of POF Gigabit Ethernet product in 2010: the Giga POF Ethernet PCI card, Giga POF-to-Ethernet Media Converter ,and Giga POF switch hub. Compliant to new ETSI technical specifications, COMOSS now can provide POF Ethernet products up to data rates 1000Mbps. For FTTX and FTTH (Fiber-to-the-home) triple-play applications, COMOSS can provide a total solution for POF networks, offering its customers not only Fast Ethernet, but also Gigabit POF network solution. Please visit http://www.comoss.com/news.htm for more information.


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COMOSS releases POF Evaluation Board Series

The COMOSS Plastic Optical Fiber Eval-uation Board Series allows the user to examine a data link over POF and test the operation of the fiber-optic transceivers. Each evaluation board carries the POF transceiver components in a through-hole of OptoLock connecter. The electrical input and output lines from the trans-ceiver are brought out to SMA connectors. The input accepts an LVDS/CML or PECL data source such as a Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT), Pattern Generator, or other signal source. A full-duplex step index POF cable links the optical signal to the second board.

The receive side of the transceiver gen-erates LVDS/CMS — compatible differential output data signals. The boards are capable of full-duplex operation. In addition to the data input and output signals, the transmitter side also has a Rex input to control the optical power. For normal operation, this input may be tied to ground. The receiver side also provides a Signal Detect (SD) output. If not required, this output may be left as an open circuit.

MOST NEWS

High spirits at second MOST ForumThe second MOST Forum took place on

March 23, 2010, in Frankfurt, Germany. Approxi-mately 150 professionals from the automotive electronics industry and academia participated in the conference and visited the accompanying exhibition.

The broad international audience was composed of attendees from Europe as well as India, Japan, South Korea, and the United States.

“Besides the OEM’s perspective and discussion of the ongoing MOST150 develop-ment and production launch, the message of the MOST Forum concentrated on two aspects: flexible means of connectivity to the MOST net-work and the readiness of MOST150 for new

applications beyond pure infotainment,” said Dr. Christian Thiel, MOST Cooperation admin-istrator. “The conference marks the kickoff for the MOST future in proving the technology’s compliance to new connectivity interfaces and functionalities.”

Response was positive overall: the at-tendees were enthusiastic about the informa-tive and interesting presentations and looked forward to future MOST events.

In the well-attended exhibition area, vari-ous companies presented their MOST solutions and applications. Among the exhibitors was the MOST Cooperation, with a demonstrator showing that MOST supports star, daisy-chain, tree, and other topologies, as well as different physical layers.

Carmakers Audi and BMW demonstrated the latest car models that just had been intro-duced to the market. There were additional exhibits by Avago Technologies, Dension Audio Systems, GADV, GOEPEL electronic, Hama-matsu Photonics, ICT Software Engineering, K2L, Melexis, Ontorix, Ruetz System Solutions, SMSC, TOYODA GOSEI, and Vector Informatik. Industry partners SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineering) and ZVEI (Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association), as well as the media partners Auto Electronics, Elektronik automotive, and ElektronikPraxis, supported the MOST Forum and displayed their latest publications and work.

Conference presentations are available for download in one package, or individually by clicking on the presentation title, at http://www.pofto.org/home/node/87. A PDF version of MOST Special Edition, including the conference proceedings, is also ready for download.

MOST150 broadens in-car multimedia to forward high-definition audio and video into vehicles

The MOST Cooperation announced sev-eral milestones that the latest MOST Technol-ogy has accomplished: MOST150 now offers


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the technology and full audio/video capability for next-generation automotive infotainment features and devices such as head units, rear-seat entertainment, amplifiers, TV tuners, and video displays.

Based on the technology specification by the organization, through which the Media Ori-ented Systems Transport (MOST) automotive multimedia network is standardized, MOST150 solutions are being tailored to the five major fields of in-car use cases: entertainment, infor-mation, mobile connectivity, connected services, and driver assistance.

Entertainment applications, in particular, have taken a major technology step in data transmission for high-definition audio and video, Blu-ray, gaming, MPEG audio streams, etc.

To support more complex video applica-tions, MOST150 contains an isochronous trans-port mechanism in addition to higher bandwidth, for a data transfer rate of 150Mbps.

This allows the transmission of audio and video signals with high bandwidth efficiency and without any overhead for addressing, collision detection/recovery, or broadcast.

Consequently, in a MOST network, mul-tiple high-definition (HD) and single-definition (SD) video streams, as well as multichannel surround sound, with premium quality-of-service can be transmitted at the same time. Isochro-nous channels are provided to support streams that are not synchronized to the MOST frame rate.

A typical use is the transport of MPEG streams over a MOST network, since MPEG streams generally use variable bit-rates.

This new MOST feature enables cost-ef-fective, extensive video applications, with sup-port of HD audio and video content from Blu-ray Discs or HDTV.

In addition to image and sound quality, the synchronization between image and sound (Lip Sync) is particularly essential. When adjust-ing audio and video to each other, transmission via the synchronous MOST network is a perfect

match because the delay between sound and image is absolutely constant. The MOST net-work itself does not add any notable delay.

This also has the advantage that, when operating a number of displays within a system, no special measures are required for synchro-nizing the various displays — the MOST network already incorporates this synchronization and, consequently, renders any further synchroniza-tion protocol unnecessary.

These technology qualifications pave the way to rear-seat entertainment systems, digital sound amplifiers, TV tuners, video displays, and other entertainment via the MOST network.

RECENT IEEE PAPERS

Following are introductions to papers recently published in IEEE journals on the topic of plastic optical fibers. For more information, please visit http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.

Development of Optical Subassembly for Plastic Optical Fiber Transceiver in High-Speed Applications

Zhang, J., Ramana, P. V., Chandrappan, J., Tan, C. W., Chai, Y. Y., Khoo, Y. M., Teo, W. L., Shing, J. L. H., Gomex, P. O., Wang, T., Ramkumar, V. M.; Institute of Microelectronics, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Singapore,

IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packag-ing, Vol. 33, No. 2, May 2010

A low-cost optical subassembly design for large-core fiber transceiver is presented. The complete transceiver module is realized by assembling the low-cost optical subassembly directly on the transceiver functional printed circuit board.

7dBm optical power output and 6dB ex-tinction ratio are achieved on transmitter by the vertical self-alignment and horizontal passive alignment at the transmitter.

A 190 meter link distance is achieved at 2.5Gbps and 340 meter link distance is achieved


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at 1.25Gbps for the POF transmitter with grade index plastic optical fiber. A 145 meter link distance is achieved at 2.5Gbps for the POF receiver.

Water Diffusion Into UV Inscripted Long Period Grating in Microstructured Polymer Fiber

Saez-Rodriguez, D., Cruz, J. L., John-son, I., Webb, D. J., Large, M. C. J., Argyros, A.; Dpto. de Fisica Aplicada y Electromagnetismo, Universidad de Valencia., Burjassot, Spain

IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 10, No. 7, July 2010

A long period grating was photoinscribed step-by-step in microstructured polymethyl methacrylate fiber for the first time using a con-tinuous-wave HeCd laser at 325nm, irradiating the fiber with a power of 1mW.

The grating had a length of 2cm and a period of 1mm. A series of cladding mode cou-pling resonances were observed throughout the spectral region studied of 600nm to 1,100nm.

The resonance wavelengths were shown to be sensitive to the diffusion of water into the fiber.

Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibers Compared to Conventional POF: Novel Prop-erties and Applications

Large, M. C. J. Blacket, D. Bunge, C.-A.; School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 10, No. 7, July 2010

While polymers are not the traditional materials for optical fibers, polymer optical fibers (POF) have a number of advantages over their glass counterparts for fiber sensors, particularly when coupled range of properties that can be produced using microstructures.

This paper reviews some of the recent progress in microstructured polymer fiber sen-sors and compares them to conventional POF. Sensors considered include mechanical strain

sensors and aqueous biosensors based on surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and surface plasmon resonance (SPR).

Highly Sensitive Bend Sensor Based on Bragg Grating in Eccentric Core Polymer Fiber

Xianfeng Chen1, Chi Zhang1, David J. Webb1, Kyriacos Kalli2, and Gang-Ding Peng3; 1School of Engineering and Applied Science, As-ton University, U.K.; 2Nanophotonics Research Laboratory, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; 3School of Electrical Engineering, Uni-versity of South Wales, Australia

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 22, No. 11, June 1, 2010

Over the last decade, fiber Bragg grat-ings (FBGs) and long-period gratings (LPGs) have been widely developed as devices for optical sensing and communications. To date, a number of bend sensors have been realized using LPG structures to measure curvature.

Despite high bend sensitivity, LPGs exhibit several disadvantages, including broad resonance that limits measurement accuracy, measurement in transmission only, and rela-tively long device size.

In contrast, with FBG-based bend sen-sors, the small size and measurement-in-reflec-tion make them ideal as point-probe sensors. To date, all the work on the fiber-grating-based bend sensor has concerned silica optical fiber.

In the past few years, FBGs in the poly-mer optical fibers (POFs) have begun to attract some interest as they offer the prospect of some significant advantages over the silica-based devices for certain applications.

Compared with silica fiber, the Young’s modulus of polymer fiber is much smaller, and the failure strain of the polymer fiber is much larger. In addition, the design flexibility of the POF facilitates the creation of asymmetric struc-ture permitting the curvature measurement with the enhanced bend sensitivity.

This paper reports on a bend sensor


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based on a Bragg grating in an eccentric-core polymer optical fiber (ecPOF). This sensor dis-plays characteristics such as high bend sensi-tivity, wide curvature measurement range, and strong directional dependence.

COMPANY PROFILE

ElectronicBRICKS™ is a new company set up to wire homes with POF in Italy. For more in-formation, please see www.electronicbricks.it.

POF productsWeb Manageable 100Mbps Ethernet

over POF Routers- CP8005R-A Web Manageable

100Mbps Ethernet over POF Router with 4 POF ports and 1 RJ45-Cat5 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet port

- CP8005R Web Manageable 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Router with 5 POF ports

Web Manageable 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Switches

- CP8012S Web Manageable 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Switches with 12 POF ports and 2 RJ45-Cat5/6 1000Base-TGbps ports and 2 SFP 1000BaseSX/LX ‘Small Formfactor Pluggable’ Tranceivers

The POF-CP8012S offers 12-Port 100Base-FX POF Ethernet Switch with 2 Gigabit TP/SFP ports. It supports full-duplex operations at its fiber-optic interface in the form factor of OptoLock interface.

The OptoLock is one kind of POF (plastic optic fiber) interface that suit for low-cost and high-speed data transmission.

The OptoLock patch cord that can transmit data at S200 (250Mbps) speed for 50 meters.

The two Gigabit TP and SFP ports can be either 1000Base-T for 10/100/1000Mbps or 1000Base-SX/LX through SFP (Small Factor Pluggable) interface, which provide high band-

width and performance for Ethernet up link. For efficient management, the POF-CP8012S is equipped with web interface and can be pro-grammed for basic switch management func-tions such as port speed configuration, VLAN, Port Mirroring, QoS, bandwidth control, IGMP Snooping and Misc Configuration.

- CP8024S Web Manageable 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Switches with 24 POF ports and 2 RJ45-Cat5/6 1000Base-TGbps ports and 2 SFP 1000BaseSX/LX ‘Small Formfactor Pluggable’ Tranceivers

The POF-CP8024S offers 24-Port 100Base-FX POF Ethernet Switch with 2 Gigabit TP/SFP ports. It supports full-duplex operations at its fiber-optic interface in the form factor of OptoLock interface.

The OptoLock is one kind of POF (plastic optic fiber) interface that suit for low-cost and high-speed data transmission. The OptoLock patch cord can transmit data at S200 (250Mbps) speed for 50 meters.

The two Gigabit TP and SFP ports can be either 1000Base-T for 10/100/1000Mbps or 1000Base-SX/LX through SFP (Small Factor Pluggable) interface, which provide high band-width and performance for Ethernet up link. For efficient management, the POF-CP8024S is equipped with web interface and can be pro-grammed for basic switch management func-tions such as port speed configuration, VLAN, Port Mirroring, QoS, bandwidth control, IGMP Snooping and Misc Configuration.

Unmanaged 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Switches

- CP8005 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Switch with 5 POF ports

- CP8008 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Switch with 8 POF ports

The POF-CP8008 offers 8-Port 100Base-FX POF Ethernet Switch. It supports full-duplex operations at its fiber-optic interface in the form factor of OptoLock interface.

The OptoLock is one kind of POF (plastic


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optic fiber) interface that suit for low-cost and high-speed data transmission. The OptoLock patch cord that can transmit data at S200 (250Mbps) speed for 100 meters. BSPCOM POF-CP8008 switch directs data traffic between your devices over an Ethernet network, con-necting your home or office equipment to the benefits of Plastic Optical Fiber. The compact and sturdy switch simply plugs into POF cable with zero configurations, providing instant con-nection to Fast Ethernet of 100Mbps over Plastic Optical Fiber.

- CP8009 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Switch with 8 POF ports and 1 RJ45-Cat5 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet port

Unmanaged 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Wall Plate Switches

- CP8301x 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Wall Plates for POF OptoLock based Equipments and for RJ45-Cat5 based Equipments

SFP ‘Small Formfactor Pluggable’ 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Transceivers

- CP8401 100Mbps Ethernet over POF — SFP ‘Small Formfactor Pluggable’ Transceivers

100Mbps Ethernet over POF Multimedia Converters

BSPCOM’s POF media converter is a high performance and commercial grade Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) media converter interfac-ing standard 10/100BaseTX to 100BaseFX Ethernet over Plastic Optical Fiber. BSPCOM Media Transceiver enables standard Ethernet devices to be interfaced into a Ethernet over Plastic Optical Fiber network, or alternatively, two BSP-1004 units can be used as a pair to cre-ate a robust point-to-point optical link. EoPOF is an ideal solution for new, retrofit and temporary installations.

The ability to install alongside power and route inconspicuously significantly reduces de-ployment time and cost, while the do-it-yourself simplicity empowers end users to continue to

expand and modify their networks.- CP8101 100Mbps Ethernet over POF

to GOF Converters, aluminum case- CP8102 100Mbps Ethernet over

POF to SFP Transceivers, aluminum case

- CP8103 100Mbps Ethernet over POF to RJ45-Cat5 Converters, plastic case

- CP8103A 100Mbps Ethernet over POF to RJ45-Cat5 Converters, alu-minum case

- CP8103B 100Mbps Ethernet over POF to RJ45-Cat5 Converters, metal case

100Mbps Ethernet over POF Multimedia Controllers

- CP8201 100Mbps Ethernet over POF — USB Network Interface Control-ler

BSPCOM’s Ethernet POF USB Adapter connects your home and office network to the benefits of Plastic Optical Fiber.

The sleek, compact and self-powered USB Adapter plugs into your USB port providing instant connection to Fast Ethernet of 100Mbps over Plastic Optical Fiber, compatible with a wide variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux and MAC.

Ethernet over Plastic Optical Fiber connectivity: Converts your computer into an EoPOF workstation, connecting you to all the operating benefits of Plastic Optical Fiber. O/S compatibility: seamless integration with Win-dows, MAC, Linux and more Hih bandwidth: powerful performance up to 200Mbps, support-ing all current and future Triple Play services. Space saving: replaces the need for a media converter for your PC, saving on desktop clutter. Easy installation: simple plug and play instal-lation for fast migration to EoPOF. Affordable access: places the latest networking technology at your fingertips.

- CP8202 100Mbps Ethernet over POF — PCI Network Interface Controller


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POF Cables- CP8501 POF Cable 2x2.2mm, 0.5NA,

1250m spool standard length- CD-1000-2 POF Cable 2x2.2mm,

0.3NA, 1250m spool standard length

POF Cutter and Tool- CP8601 POF Cutter for handling POF

Cable 2x2.2mmPOF OptoLock@ Feed-Thru- ELII-2.20 POF OptoLock@ 2x2.2mm

Feed-Thru ConnectorPOF Home Networking KIT- CP8701 POF Home Networking

— Do It Yourself KIT100Mbps Ethernet over POF IP Network

Camera- CP4001 POF 100Mbps Ethernet over

POF — IP Network CameraA new generation Network Camera with

high integrated Dual Core H.264 & MPEG-4 on-chips, independent Triple Stream and ad-vanced technique. It is comprised of intelligent network transmitting stream of H.264, 3GPP mobile phone viewing stream of MPEG-4 and local recording stream of H.264. To co-work with our build-in WWW HTTP server, BSPCOM have enhanced unique technologies, including DDNS+, SECU+, UPNP+ and powerful ‘Engine’, and users can easily operate with CP4001. We promise that you will view ‘Anytime, anywhere’ via mobile phone and IE browser. We also thor-oughly solve the problems of installation and difficulty in use.

In addition, CP4001 provides high qual-ity video and audio streaming as well as smart management platform, which leads you into a perfect, safety and reliable video life. Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) IPCAM has one of the big-gest advantages for its completely immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and noise, comparing to LAN, WIFI and POE IPCAM. Another point relies on its no radiation during the signal launch and a lot of wireless network are not available at present. In addition, Plastic

Optical Fiber is small, flexible, easy installation, plug and play, which will be greatly cost-saving for installation and after-sales maintenance.

Industrial 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Converters and Switches

- DM-1001-I Industrial 100Mbps Ether-net over POF to RJ45-Cat5 Convert-ers with 1 POF port

- DM-1002-I Industrial 100Mbps Ether-net over POF to RJ45-Cat5 Switches with 2 POF ports

- DM-1004-I Industrial 100Mbps Eth-ernet over POF Switches with 4 POF ports

- DM-1008-I Industrial 100Mbps Eth-ernet over POF Switches with 8 POF ports

- ETH-Brick POF Industrial 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Switches with 3 RJ45-Cat5 ports and 2 POF ports

FTTx POF products and solutions for ‘the last hundred meters’

Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) realizes the simultaneous transmission of Data, VoIP and IPTV signal over a single optical fiber to the home. With recent widespread use of the In-ternet at home the traditional network commu-nication lines are gradually becoming unable to deliver the increasing amount of data, such as audio data, image data, and movie data, via the Internet. In order to satisfy these demands, FTTH, in which optical fibers are provided to the home, and the like, are being made avail-able widely to consumers. FTTH delivers faster broadband access compared to existing access technologies, including network connections based on phone lines (xDSL) or coaxial cable.

Optical fiber has become the medium of choice for sending digital signals between the central office and the customers remote terminals. Optical fibers form some of the main lines through which telecommunications data is connected all over the world. An optical fiber typically includes a core region surrounded


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concentrically by a cladding. The optical fiber bidirectional communication is achieved by using a single optical fiber through which two types of light signals with different wavelengths are propagated bidirectionally has become in-creasingly common in optical communication applications such as FTTH.

In FTTH, optical signal capabilities are routed from a central office or other distribution location to a plurality of homes in that particular location via optical fibers and one or more opti-cal connectors and/or other optical connection devices.

A possible solution for integration of Eth-ernet, telecommunication and IPTV Networks in “the last hundred meters” may be use glass optical fiber networking to reach the building and then use plastic optical fiber to reach the home equipment.

Home networking using Ethernet over POFPolymer optical fibers (POF) based on

polymethyl-methacrilate (PMMA) with step-in-dex 1mm core diameter have gained interest in recent years for their interesting properties compared to the better-known glass optical fibers (GOF).

The main advantages of POF when com-pared to GOF are:

- POF large core diameter (1mm) al-lows do-it-yourself installation and termination with common cutter and electrician-like low cost tools;

- PMMA material is a very inexpensive material;

- POF high diameter and numerical ap-erture makes bending loss sensitivity much lower than silica fiber (GOF);

- POF mechanical resilience and elas-ticity makes it possible to step on it and even tie it. Dust and water harm POF to a much smaller extent than GOF;

- The optical sources for POF are in the visible range, and the optical launch

is usually non-collimated. POF optical sources are thus intrinsically eye-safe and easy to troubleshoot, as the sig-nal can be seen by the naked eye.

For all these reasons, POF is potentially very interesting in several applications (indus-trial automation, automotive, home networking) where it shows key advantages to the more traditional copper cabling:

- Complete immunity to electromag-netic interference (EMI);

- Being an electrical insulator (like GOF), POF can be laid down in power ducts. This apparently minor issue is seen as a key element by several European telcos for in-house instal-lation in brown-field areas.

- Lower weight (a fundamental issue in the automotive sector).

These native properties have to be bal-anced by some drawbacks: PMMA exhibits a strong attenuation, minimum for visible light (0,15dB/m to 0,20dB/m at 650nm, to be com-pared to 0,25dB/km at 1,550nm for silica single-mode fiber), which limits the reach of the links to about hundred meters without bends. Be-sides, as a next step in the evolution of access networks, it is foreseen that higher-bandwidth services will be delivered, either with active network elements built closer to the end user (e.g., VDSL2 or point-to-point FTTH technol-ogy), or at the opposite end with active elements more distant from the end user (e.g. GPON FTTH technology). The target for bandwidth delivered in home could be up to 1Gbps in the case of FTTH or up to 120Mbps downstream and up to 50Mbps upstream in case of VDSL2 technology.

The home network must not represent a bottleneck for the expected evolution for ser-vices such as the introduction of high-definition IPTV, multiroom/multivision configuration, using different channels seen in different rooms with up to three set-top boxes (STBs) and high-qual-ity video communication via the TV set.


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More generally, with the “connected home,” several devices will be connected to-gether: the home network can be used, for ex-ample, to share multimedia contents not neces-sarily delivered in real time by access network, but with the paradigm of “download and play,” this content can be stored in a device inside the house and used afterwards.

In addition, this residential network must be easy, fast and cheap to deploy.

The ETSI TS document of January 2010 specifies the POF cabling system 100Mbps and 1Gbps for interoperability among different suppliers.

The system comprises the active optical elements, the cables, connectors, and wall plugs. A future step could be to achieve integration of POF interfaces into end-user equipment.

Several suppliers currently offer PMMA POF media converter solutions at 100Mbps. With such performance, PMMA fiber may be used in the home to interconnect all devices usually communicating through Fast Ethernet interfaces — for example, the link between the home gateway and the STB.

The PMMA POF solution is very attrac-tive to do a point-to-point architecture in an already constructed house, because the instal-lation of the cable could be performed by the user himself. Several installation configurations can be considered:

- The cable can be installed in existing ducts (empty or already used by a copper/electrical cable), or

- Installed along the wall or plinths by stapling or gluing.

In the case of a visible home cabling, the constraints applied on the cable could be stricter (several corners and doors).

Ultimately POF transceivers will be inte-grated in the user equipment, thus reducing the number of power supplies and hence the overall electrical consumption.

An alternative to this would be to power up the media converter by means of a USB interface or Power over Ethernet (PoE) on the RJ45 interface.

Energy-efficiency targets are set out in the EU Code of Conduct on Energy Consump-tion of Broad Band Equipment.

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