FTTH Network

OSP Outside plant construction

Overview The deployment of a PON architecture requires a number of outside plant components, including the optical distribution frame, splitters, splicing closures, and wall-mounted boxes on the home or the building. It also requires fibre-optic cables with specific performance characteristics, both in the indoor and outdoor environment. The selection of cables and associated components, as well as how […]

FTTH Network

Outside Plant (OSP) Design

The designer of the fiber network designs and digitizes fiber features using the standard G/Technology feature placement workflow and a fiber splicing editor. The end-to-end workflow is as follows. At a given location (central office, switching center), the user creates an ISP Connect feature. From this feature, the user places fiber cables, splices, remote terminals, […]

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Physical layer requirements of FTTH GPON Network

This section describe physical layer requirement for FTTH GPON network in three perspective, 1, Spectral Width,2. Attenuation Range, 3. ODN topology, etc. 1 Spectral width [ITU-T G.984.2] defines certain PMD specifications for the OLT and ONU. For a GPON system operating at 2488 Mbps downstream rate and 1244 Mbps upstream rate, the 20 dB spectral […]

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Taking Copper to Greater Heights With Best Practices for Pair Bonding

Today, more than 1 billion households are still connected to a copper line.1 As the reality of supporting HDTV and video in just about every room has become the norm and no longer a luxury, higher bandwidth for Triple Play Services (voice, data, and video) continues to see a growing demand. Leading telco service providers […]