Capabilities and

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Capabilities and Advantages of Fiber to the Home
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Fiber to the Home Solution

• Fiber optics all the way to the subscribers
  premises

• Services
• Better quality voice services
• Higher quantity and quality video services than
  capable over copper network. Both IP and RF video
• Ultra-high speed data services in both directions
• Extensive two-way broadband services and
  applications only enabled with a FTTH network

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Greenfield Developments

• Developers driving requirement to transition from
  HFC to FTTH
• Creates market advantage Create smart
  neighborhood
• Community wide Local Area Network
• Local Community Server (on-site to provide
  customized local content)
• Bulletin Board Services (BBS)
• Home Video Access to Association Meetings
• Group and Community Calendaring
• Personal and Group Home Pages
• Create smart home
• Whole house control
• Remote access
• Video Security

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Telemedicine / Teleradiology

• Interactive virtual office visits
• Real-time monitoring of vital signs
• Instantaneous data to labs and off-site experts
• Digital archiving
• Fiber will radically improve the way you do
  healthcare
• Local clinics
• Comfort of your own homes

Hospital
Shared X-ray
Medical Specialist at his Office or Home
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Distance Education
Local College

• Students can sit in a virtual classroom and
  interact with classes in local universities as
  well as with guest lecturers in distant
  institutions
• Virtual parent / teacher conferences for K-12
• Full-time employees with challenging schedules
  can enroll in customized educational programs

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Residential Broadband Services

• Work-at-Home
• Increased efficiency and corporate profitability
• Improve employee satisfaction
• On-line Game Playing
• Connect with others around the world in
  graphics-intensive multiplayer games
• Personal Pictures / Videos
• Sharing high-quality digital pictures and home
  videos
• Real-time videophone

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Residential Broadband Services

• Video Surveillance
• Nanny-cam / babysitter-cam
• Safety
• Swimming pool monitoring
• Peace of mind when only one person is at home
• Property management
• Small business web servers
• Welcome high end users to your network and
  generate revenue

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Explosive Growth of Unicast Video

• Proliferation of high definition content
• Bandwidth intensive
• Video on Demand
• Consumers are becoming used to accessing content
  when they want it
• Digital video recording
• Web-connected video players
• Apple TV, iPOD, X-BOX
• Internet video shift from PCs to living room TVs
• Internet video distribution
• NBC will stream 1,000 hours of live Olympic
  coverage
• Broadcasters studios providing direct content

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Explosive Growth of Upstream Video

• User-generated video rapidly increasing
• Google 1.65 BN purchase of YouTube
• Place-shifting Video
• If TiVo time-shifts video, Sling Box redirects
  or place-shifts video to a remote PC
• Continued pressure on the limited upstream
  bandwidth of HFC networks

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Network Capacity
Standards based PON compared to HFC based network
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Up to1Ghz
Limited upstream pipe
30 MHz
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Frequency
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Up to1Ghz 100 video
Plus...
Data
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Huge symmetrical pipe 1.25 Gbps
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Typical PON Network
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Network Upgrade
Replace HFC node with all passive network
Central Office
Core Router
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Network Upgrade
Utilize Remote OLT where fiber limited
Central Office
Upgrade to FTTP
Core Router
Remote OLT
Connect to Core Router with GigE or 10 GigE links
GPON GE-PON
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Analog RF Return
Non-Standard 4 Wavelength PON

• Analog RF Optical Return
• Non-standard RF solution with separate node
• Reduced reliability
• Increase install cost
• Complicated network
• Cost prohibitive
• Noise funneling limits combining
• Susceptible to RF ingress
• Amateur radio, electrical interference

• WDM Optical Receiver per PON
• Non-standard
• Reduced loss budget
• Increase maintenance
• Increase space requirements cost

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Digital RF Return

• All digital
• Eliminates noise funneling
• Immune to interference
• Plug-n-Play, no maintenance
• IP from ONT
• Combine 10ks of set tops from multiple sites
• Standard PON wavelengths

Analog
Digital
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Trident7 Per Sub Cost
Trident7 PON
HFC
30
110
Less or equal to HFC
350
490
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OPEX Advantages
OLT replaces complex RF combining and reduces
equipment
All passive no maintenance

• Simplified network
• All dielectric fiber very reliable requires no
  maintenance
• OLT replaces HFC optical transmission equipment,
  CMTS
• Eliminate headend and field equipment level
  adjustments and maintenance
• Eliminate CLI monitoring and reporting

• Centralized provisioning management
• Truck rolls for service termination / activation
  reduced
• No OSP powered devices
• Utility bills eliminated
• Power supply battery maintenance
• RF line gear repair

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PON Advantages

• PON Enables
• Symmetrical bandwidth, no bottlenecks
• Support any bi-directional application
• Plug-n-play network with centralized provisioning
  and management
• Support of both RF and IP video
• Routing without physical multiplexing
• Additional revenue generation
• Reduced operating expenses
• Guarantees network product longevity

• PON Eliminates
• Active electronics in OSP
• Interference from EMI, variance in RF power
  levels
• Lightning and power related outages
• Upstream bandwidth limitation
• RF multiplexing to target services
• Complexity maintenance
• HFC requires careful attention to proper system
  alignment
• CMTS concentration
• Modems MTAs
• The Upgrade Cycle