International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887)
Volume 92 – No.6, April 2014
- Scalability results in superposition of different ONT signals when it
reaches OLT. Hence TDMA [1] is adopted to avoid the
- Survivability interference of signals from ONTs. In TDMA time slots will
- Functionality be provided to each user on demand for transmission of their
packets. At the optical splitter packets arrive in order and they
- Construction and maintenance costs are combined and transmitted to OLT.
- Network upgradeability Type B protection [27], [34] is used in the design of the
- Operability and suitability over designed network lifetime. GPON FTTH access network presented in this paper. It
provides redundancy against both feeder and GPON port
4. TRAFFIC FLOW IN GPON FTTH failures. In this type of the protection, each fiber strand in the
feeder cable is connected to two GPON ports in the OLT as
ACCESS NETWORKS shown in Figure 1. One of the ports is configured as active
The data is transmitted from OLT to ONT in downstream as a
and the other as standby. Figure 2 shows the normal direction
broadcast manner and as a Time Division Multiplexing of traffic, once a failure in a fiber strand is happened, the
(TDM) in upstream [32].The wavelength of the downstream OLT automatically activates the standby GPON port to
data is 1490 nm, voice and data services from core network
broadcast a copy of the downstream traffic to feed the FDTs
transported over the optical network reaches the OLT and are
beyond the failure point from the other direction as shown in
distributed to the ONTs through the FTTH network by means Figure 3. This standby GPON port will also receive the
of power splitting. Each Home receives the packets intended upstream traffic of the isolated feeder portion. Figure 4
to it through its ONT. The upstream represents the data
depicts the situation when the active GPON port itself has a
transmission from the ONT to OLT. The wavelength is 1310
failure, in this case the OLT automatically divert the optical
nm. If the signals from the different ONTs arrive at the splitter signal to the protection line through the standby GPON port.
input at the same time and at the same wavelength 1310nm, it
FDT-1 FDT-1
2:4 2:4
GPON LT(1) GPON LT(1)
OLT
OLT
FDT-2 FDT-2
2:4 2:4
Link Failure
GPON LT(M) GPON LT(M)
FDT-N FDT-N
2:4 2:4
Fig. 2 Normal direction of traffic flow
Fig. 3 Type B protection in GPON FTTH access network,
the OLT send and receive traffic through the standby
GPON ports to overcome link failure
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