Passive Optical Networks (PON)

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Passive Optical Networks (PON) in their various flavors offer greater bandwidth per subscriber, with aggregate downstream rates of 633Mbps and 2.488Gbps. With telcos looking to IPTV to break in on the home video market traditionally cornered by the cable providers, PON is an attractive solution for the infrastructure required to deliver a solution, providing a bandwidth cushion for the next decade.

BPON and GPON solutions broadcast downstream through a splitter to the ONT, but they must multiplex upstream signals without optical-to-electrical conversion. This is accomplished through an arbitration protocol that controls when each ONT is allowed to transmit.

As with any optical network, PONs will experience delay based on distance and should experience a minimal but measurable error rate. Since PONs are being targeted to deliver IP services such as VoIP, IPTV and Video on Demand, PON implementations must be tested to verify that they will deliver the quality of experience required by the customer.

Anue Network Emulators can inject delay in one bit-time increments and errors at rates down to 10^-15 to simulate any PON environment.

Use Anue Network Emulators to:

• Stress and characterize ranging algorithms.
• Test performance of applications running over passive optical networks.