Experimental Demonstration of Redundant Long-Reach PON
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Yin, Shuang; Du, Liang B.; DaSanti, Claudio; Zhao, Xiangjun; Zhang, Tao; Barratt, Adam; Jiang, Joy; Lam, Cedric F.
- Source
- 2018 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2018 European Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2018
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical fibers
Passive optical networks
Iron
Stimulated emission
Optical amplifiers
Arrayed waveguide gratings
- Language
Automated failover for redundant long-reach TWDM PON is experimentally demonstrated. This novel architecture provides protection to each power splitter without backup OLTs. Instead, optical splitters and amplifiers are used to generate multiple feeds for the redundant feeder fibre.