The Importance of the Management Plane for FTTP

A Perspective of a USA Service Provider

The Telecom Industry is Changing

Last Year Marked a significant Change in the Telecommunications Industry in the USATraditional Wireline companies saw a loss in overall access lines, despite an overall gain in Homes PassedThe oldest telecommunications company in the world, left telecom as a technology and evolved to merge with Cable as a transportUsers appetite for bandwidth is acceleratingMOBILITY HAS BECOME THE PARADIGM

A USA Perspective

160 Million Americans have Mobile Phones24 Million have 1st Generation Broadband connectionWireless Networks are allowing Broadband on the GoPicture/Camera Phones outsold every other phone type in the USA

Broadband + Mobility

=

Transformation

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.

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

Some Statistics

46 Million of our telephone lines are equipped for DSLMore than 36 Million people each day use Verizon WirelessServe over 7 Million Small Businesses and over 80% of the Fortune 1000Over 100 Million people uses Verizon Networks every dayCurrently support over 2 Billion Peer-to-Peer connections every day

Key to survival in a transitioning market

Deploy leading edge technology

High on the bandwidth chain

Good Service

Great Value Proposition

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.

Why FTTP?

Why Now?

Is FTTP the answer?

Why FTTP? Consumers will require additional bandwidth to the home in the near futureCompetition is beginning to offer a “triple-play” (i.e., voice, video, and data) bundleFTTP 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 servicesAn FTTP based network will result in less operational expenses

Why FTTP? (Cont’d)

Access Bandwidth

Growth

2.4 – 56K

ISDN

144K

ADSL

256K – 1.5M

1.5M – 3M

Cable Modem

12 – 25M

ADSL2(+)

12 - 50M

VDSL

100M

DDS

1970’s

FTTP

2004

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

FTTP has the necessary bandwidth to support near term

and long term services

FTTP has the necessary bandwidth to support near term

and long term services

Why Now? (Cont’d)

SPs are losing access linesBundling with the triple-play should reduce the churn

Competition with cable providers is forcing actionCable Modems currently have over 60% of the HSD market share and the gap is expected to increaseCable 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.

Matching Application and Network Requirements

High Speed Internet Access (browsing, IM, Chat, FTP, VPN, access, etc)

Up to 3 Mb/s

E-Mail As above

Live TV on PC 300 to 750 kb/s

Internet Video on Demand 300 to 750 kb/s

Video Conferencing 300 to 750 kb/s

Voice telephony 5 to 128 kb/s

Interactive Games 10 to 750 kb/s

Broadcast TV – (e.g., MPEG2) 2 to 6 Mb/s

High definition TV – HDTV 12 to 19 Mb/s

Pay Per View and NVOD (e.g., MPEG2) 2 to 6 Mb/s

Data Application Typical bandwidth (downstream)

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

Common ProtocolCommon Infrastructure

Picture MessagingVoice

Data

Video Service Voice over IP

Virtual Private Network

Video Conferencing

Gaming

FTTP BasicsFull Service Access Network (FSAN) – Primary source of PON standards. Created by service providers in order to facilitate suitable standards. FSAN Standards – ITU-T G.983Passive 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.

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

PON Architecture FSAN Standard ITU G.983

OLT(Optical

LineTerminal)

ONT(Optical Network

Terminal)

Downstream1490 nm

Upstream1310 nm

1490nm/1310nm, 1550nm

Video()

Data(AAL5)

POTS(AAL2)

Voice & Data Voice/Data & Video

OpticalSplitter

EDFA(Erbium DopedFiber Amplifier)

1310 nm 1490 nmDownstreamUpstream

Voice and Data@ 622 Mbps

1550 nm

Video

Digital TVAnalog TV HD/VOD

550 MHz 860 MHz42 MHz

Voice and Data@ 155 to 622 Mbps

Bandwidths & Services

1x32

OpticalCouplers(WDM)

Video1550 nm

FSAN PON Solution How Does an APON/BPON Work?

ONT

ONT

ONT

A

B

C

AB C +GRANT ABC +

GRANT

AB C + GRANT

AB C +GRANT

ONT

ONT

ONT

A

B

C

A

Upstream: Time Division Multiple AccessDownstream: Time Division Multiplex

Downstream: 622 Mbps @ 1490nmDownstream: 622 Mbps @ 1490nm

Upstream: 155 Mbps @ 1310nmUpstream: 155 Mbps @ 1310nm

Outside Plant: Optical Distribution NetworkOutside Plant: Optical Distribution Network Customer Premise: ONT(Optical Network Termination)

CO, Feeder: OLT(Optical Line Termination)

ATM switch,PSTN,Internet

Services to user:POTS,Internet Access

Passive Optical SplitterPassive Optical Splitter

Current Standards

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).

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

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.

Current Standards

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

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

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

SO, What is missing?

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

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

Common ProtocolCommon Infrastructure

Picture MessagingVoice

Data

Video Service Voice over IP

Virtual Private Network

Video Conferencing

Gaming

Standards will drive the speed with which newer technologies

can be delivered

So what areas do these new standards need to cover?

A brief look at a Verizon answer to that Question

Iobi and Verizon-one

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

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