Optical Fiber Backbone for Multiservice Home Network - France Telecom / Orange

1. Optical Fiber Backbone to serve
Multiservice Home Network
Requirements
OMB Workshop
Benoît CHARBONNIER, Philippe GUIGNARD, Joffray GUILLORY, Anna PIZZINAT, Laurent GUILLO and Philippe
CHANCLOU
Orange Labs, France
Monday 22nd March 2010, OFC 2010

2. Presentation outline
part 1 Services and Home Network Requirements
part 2 Plastic Optical Fiber introduction for Home Networking
part 3 Evolution of Optical Home Area Networks
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3. Present and Future Services and Applications
See deliverable D1.1p on ALPHA website (www.ict-alpha.eu)
Basic Telecommunication
– Mail, ToIP, SMS
Internet based Services
– Browsing, Streaming, P2P…
Video Based Services
– IPTV, VoD, Streaming, Innovative Video
Formats…
Online Virtual Environments
– Games, Social,...
Remote Technical Services
– Thin Client, Storage, Home monitoring…
e-Health
– Electrocardiogram, hysterogram…
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4. Focus: Online Virtual Environments (and Gaming)
The most stringent requirements
in terms of Delay (& Jitter)
– < 100 ms
– < 50 ms in the future
Network Latency is only the tip
of the iceberg
Player Game Server
Motion Tracker Network Computing Network Renderer Eye
Rendering
~50 ms
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5. Applications requirements classification
Bandwidth, Mbps
ATAWAD
1000 UHD Video Stream
Video Conf
3D TV Data Back-up
100
HD Video Stream
Internet Browsing
Video Conf
10 Peer to Peer
TVoIP
Thin Clients
DVB VoD Music stream, radio
2 Gaming E-Health Gaming Video Conf Home
Virtual Reality ToIP email, SMS
Virtual Reality Monitoring
150 300 900 Delay, ms
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6. Home Fiber Connexions today
Fast Ethernet, Point to point
LiveBox
RJ45 Eth
RJ45 TV
POF Media
converter Set top box
Power
Supply
POF Media
converter Power
Supply
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7. Home fibre connections tomorrow
GbE, structured cabling, integrated POF interfaces
Optolock
RJ45
Active star topology
MC
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8. How to manage the services heterogeneity in the home?
Heterogeneity of services implies heterogeneity of signals
– IP related Applications can be aggregated together and managed
– BUT those cannot:
– TV Spectrum (Analog or Digital, Terrestrial or Satellite)
– Radio signals for future wireless distributed local connectivity
Is it mandatory to use several parallel infrastructures? …
How do we manage ATAWAD services?
Unification of the Home Network infrastructure is a must !
Diversification of the end-connections is unavoidable
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9. Towards a unique multiservice home network
A two layer architecture
An optical backbone interconnects a central un multiformat switch ( MS ) who
distributes the services to local terminals which act as "remote extenders" ( Ext )
extenders"
The different services aggregated at the MS are all made available on their native interface at
each extender
The optical backbone is installed in the structured cabling of the house by a
the
end-
trained professional and is not directly accessible to the end-user hence
guarantying its long life span.
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10. Towards a unique multiservice home network
Electrical multiplex optically distributed
Exploits the large bandwidth of optical fiber such as Silica fiber
Applications are electrically multiplexed and distributed over fiber
Presented at ECOC 2009
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11. Conclusions
Network speed will increase and delay will reduce
– in the region of 1 Gbps within five years
– Below 10 ms within five years
Need to provide a unified infrastructure for the home network
– Many services in parallel which shall be made available
anywhere
– All IP aggregation may not be the best solution
Optical fiber as a backbone
– Semi transparent distribution of the aggregated services
– Long life span
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12. Thank You
This work was supported by the European project ALPHA
www.ict-alpha.eu

13. Rationale: Growth of Home Networks
Today's Situation
Bandwidth Requirements
Downlink Uplink
(HD)TVoIP
On-line Games
100 Mbps is amply sufficient
Today, WiFi (11a/b/g) + CAT cables or WiFi (11n) are suitable
But what is going to be needed in 2015?
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14. Strategy Analytics 2008
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15. Verizon's view (2008)
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16. WirelessHD; wireless high
definition at 60 GHz
"Strategy Analytics believes that wire replacement alone is a sufficient demand factor to create momentum
behind both these wireless standards (WDHI and WIrelessHD) over the near to medium term." (9 Oct 2008)
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17. WHDI, wireless high definition in the 5GHz band
Sony / Sharp / BELKIN Solution
"Strategy Analytics believes that wire replacement alone is a sufficient demand factor to create momentum
behind both these wireless standards (WDHI and WIrelessHD) over the near to medium term." (9 Oct 2008)
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