GPON Backhaul Training for LTE-5G Networks

GPON Backhaul Training for LTE-5G Networks

 

Fiber Communications Overview

 

• Fiber Optical Transmission Principles
  • Physical optical beam principles
  • Optical transmission windows
  • Losses and materials
• Types of Fibers
  • Multimode fiber
  • Single mode fiber
  • Dark fiber
  • Polymer (Plastic) Optical Fiber – POF
• Optical Transmission Principles
  • Material dispersion
  • Chromatic dispersion
  • Time dispersion
  • Mode dispersion
• Optical Transmission Losses
  • Material losses
  • Bending losses
  • Wavelength losses
  • Optical insertion losses
  • Optical aperture losses
  • Splicing losses
• Exercises using MS Excel

 

Introduction to Optical Networking

 

• Optical LAN
  • IP/Ethernet over fiber
  • Requirements/restrictions
• Optical Network Spanning
  • Estimate link loss
  • Estimate fiber length
  • Optical repeating
• WDM
  • WDM principles
  • DWDM principles
  • WDM design
• Exercises using MS Excel

 

GPON Access Technology

 

• What is PON?
• Differences between passive and active optical networks
• Generic PON architecture
• PON components
• Connectors and fiber accessories for PON technology
• BPON architecture and components
• BPON and EPON
• What is GPON?
• GPON advantages and features
• GPON requirements and restrictions
• GPON security overview
• Background history
• Access network infrastructures: FTTx architectures (FTTC, FTTN, FTTD, FTTP, FTTH)

 

GPON Standards

 

• GPON ITU-T G.984.1
• GPON ITU-T G.984.2
• Physical Media Dependent (PMD)
• GPON ITU-T G.984.3
• Transmission convergence
• GPON ITU-T G.984.4
• GPON ITU-T-  G.984.5 enhancement band
• GPON ITU-T G.984.6
• Optical reach extension (G.984.re)
• XG-PON ITU-T G.987.1
• 10 Gigabit Passive Optical Network XG-PON
• XG-PON2
• 40 Gbps GPON network elements
• Optical Line Termination (OLT), Optical Network Unit (ONU), SFU, SBU, MDU, and MTU
• GPON fiber termination
• Fiber connectors, splice trays, fiber cassette trays and enclosures
• Optical splitter, Optical Distributions Frame (ODF)

 

GPON System Architecture

 

• GTC layer system
• TC concepts in GPON
• GPON frame format
• PLOAM field
• OMT method B activation
• GPON ranging and spanning
• OMCI protocol
• GPON Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment (DBA)
• Introduction to Transmission Containers (T-CONT)

 

GPON Power Budget Calculations

 

• GPON optical transmitter
• GPON optical receivers
• GPON receiver sensitivity
• Optical receiver detection and estimation principles
  • Exercises on Tx/RX using MS Excel
• ​In-Building wiring​ & GPON multiplexing
• ​​GPON Physical Layer Dependency (PMD)
• ​​Channel insertion loss
• ​​GPON ​dispersion calculation
• Optical power budget
  • Exercises on optical link budget principles using MS Excel
• Optical Distribution Network (ODN)
• ​​​​XGPON power budgets
  • Exercises on optical link budget principles using MS Excel

 

GPON Backhaul for LTE/LTE-A

 

• LTE-A network overview
• GPON as mobile indoor backhaul technology
• GPON indoor with POF and LiFi technologies
• GPON as mobile outdoor backhaul technologies
• GPON mobile backhaul capacity principles
  • Estimate LTE RAN capacity
  • Estimate IP/Ethernet overheads
  • Estimating GPON overheads
  • Exercises on LTE-A IP/Ethernet backhaul estimations using MS Excel

 

GPON Backhaul for 5G

 

• 5G technology overview
• 5G network architecture
• GPON as 5G mobile backhaul technology
• GPON 5G mobile backhaul capacity principles
  • Estimate 5G RAN capacity
  • Estimate IPv4 IPv6/Ethernet overheads
  • Estimating GPON overheads
• Exercises on 5G IP/Ethernet backhaul estimations using MS Excel
• GPON and IoT expectations
  • Exercises on GPON to IoT traffic backhaul estimations using MS Excel

 

GPON Backhaul Training for LTE-5G Networks: Recap & Q/A