Techno‐economic analysis of multiservice EPON deployment

Abstract

Deployment of future‐proof access networks requires new infrastructure and new equipment and, on top of it, raises many questions regarding the costs and risks associated with the technology, telecommunications market, and legal regulations of these networks. This paper presents the techno‐economic analysis of single‐channel and multichannel Ethernet passive optical network implementation in different urban environments since urban areas are currently associated with the need for the delivery of more advanced value‐added services. In order to get realistic results, the techno‐economic study has been applied to different urban areas in the city of Belgrade, capital of Serbia. Cost/benefit analysis is performed in order to determine the most influential parameters and give general guidelines for the deployment of new‐generation optical access networks in different environments. Analysis also shows that the price for new services that a customer needs to pay is competitive in the market today.

The way forward truly QoS aware EPON

“…On the other side, the results confirm the ability of SC-EPON to remain competitive. Moreover, since presented MC-EPON model could be implemented on a per need basis [35], we believe that both models could be respective candidates for resource allocation in next generation EPON networks.…”

Performance analysis of long‐reach 40/40 Gbps mode division multiplexing‐based hybrid time and wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network/free‐space optics using Gamma‐Gamma fading model with pointing error under different weather conditions

“…[1][2][3] The primary point-to-multipoint PON architectures comprise the usage of time-division-multiplexing (TDM) or wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) techniques. [4][5][6] Then the deployment of next-generation PON stage-1 (NG-PON1), that is, 10GPON and 10EPON with higher bandwidth capacity has come into a significant stage. In 2012, to achieve higher capacity in PON to fulfill the demand of high bandwidth, an NG-PON stage-2 (NG-PON2) based bidirectional 40 Gbps time and wavelength division multiplexing PON (TWDM-PON) access network has been proposed and successfully demonstrated.…”