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FTTH NBN – Pipe Dream or Reality?
Course Outline
Session commences 9:00am
1. Analysing Australia’s unique requirements, situation and challenges
- Broadband – looking back, looking forward
- Our NBN – why it matters, why it is difficult
- Techno-Economics: assessing if castles in the air can really be built
- What decisions can be made using Techno-Economics?
- What tools are used in Techno-Economics?
- Inputs and outputs of the Techno-Economics decision process
2. Principles and working with light
- Why does fibre optics technology delivers super fast broadband?
- It's just glass: physical attributes and curiosities of optical fibre cable
- Light wave principles
- Wavelength and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing review
- What is Dark Fibre?
- Active vs. Passive optics
- Optical networking elements
3. FTTx deep fibre optic access strategies
- Evolving the CAN to the Next Generation Full Service Access Network
- Structure and evolving nature of the Customer Access Network
- Why the Access Network is so strategic?
- Drivers for ultra high speed broadband
- The FSAN evolution: One System, Multiple Strategies
- Why incumbents prefer to follow the FSAN approach?
- Fibre to the Local Exchange (FTTLEx)
- The copper distribution network
- xDSL deployment scenarios
- Copper Loop Length, Limitations and Spectral Compatibility
- New developments and the future of xDSL access
- Fibre to the Neighborhood Node (FTTNN)
- The HFC network architecture
- The deployment economics of HFC
- HFC access technology evolution to integrated access
- DOCSIS 3.0, the drop and the future of the HFC architecture
Session Ends -10 :45am
Morning Tea/Coffee 10:45am – 11:00 am
- FTTN - Deeper Fibre + Shorter Loops
- FTTN - why it is the incumbents' choice
- The techno-economic rationale for FTTN
- FTTB Implementation scenarios and architectures
- Why FTTB is so popular?
- Deployment challenges of MDU Apartments
- FIbre to the Curb/Kerb (FTTC/K)
- VDLS2 unlocking the high speed potential of copper
- Outside Plant solutions for low pop density areas
- Deployment economics and reach
4. FTTH – the ultimate end game, but is it achievable
- FTTH - FIbre to the Premises
- Dispelling the hype: Perceptions vs. Reality
- The optical Feeder Network
- FTTP outside plant and build cycle
- The challenges of the drop
- The Optical to Electrical (O-E) conversion dilemma
- Local vs. Network Powering issues
- FTTP How will Network Operators deploy?
- Active (P2P) vs Passive (P2MP)
- Ethernet in the access network
- Active Ethernet over fibre deployment considerations
- System architecture and reach
- Understanding PON and they work?
- Design architecture and reach of Passive Optical Networks
- Types of PON
- EPON (IEEE) vs. BPON and GPON (ITU)
- What is the telcos preferred choice and why?
- The emergence of GE-PON
- Next Generation WDM-PON
- RFoG video services on FTTP
- Network infrastructure for IPTV
Lunch 12:15pm – 1:00 pm
- Techno Economics of FTTP
- Green field vs. Brownfield scenarios
- Deep Fibre deployment scenarios
- Downtown vs Urban vs Suburban vs Rural
- Outside Plant and deployment economics
- Direct burial, Duct, Aerial and special deployment
- Strategies for reducing the costs of the outside plant
- Leveraging existing infrastructure assets to speed FTTH deployment
- Typical layout for distribution and challenges of the customer drop
- Typical home installation requirements
- Alternatives for FTTP investment
- If you build it will they actually come
- Evolution in bandwidth demand
- Why focusing on FTTP is dangerous?
- How does HFC compare to VDSL and FTTP?
Afternoon Tea Break 3:00pm – 3:15
5. Fibre to the Base Station – integration of Fibre and Wireless
- Can wireless match the performance and reliability of wireline?
- FTTP vs Personal Broadband
- User demands for digital content: anywhere anytime on any device
- Current RAN deployment architecture
- The Bandwidth vs. Reach trade-off
- Can wireless deliver 100 Mbps to customers, no matter where they are
- Do we need fibre all the way to the base station?
- Integration of Fibre Optic and Wireless Networks
End of First Day 5:00pm
Day 2 9:00am – 10:30am
6. The Optical Backbone and Core Network
- Transmission mechanisms of Optical Networks (today)
- Digitization, Multiplexing and the Digital Hierarchy
- Transport of broadband services over Optical Transport networks
- Key Networking Elements and Features
- Examining the role of SONET/SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy)
- Rings, Redundancy and Protection
- Migration to the Next Generation converged IP network
- Transitioning from Circuits to Packets in the Core
- Expectations of the NGN
- NGN migration strategies: Inside Out vs. Outside In.
- Location of Intelligence: Core vs. Edge
- Interworking with Legacy Systems
- IP Services evolution and Application development
- Delivering QoS for IP based communications
- Service Provider Requirements vs. End User Requirements
Morning Tea/Coffee 10:30am - 10:45 am
- Evolution towards Packet based Transport Network
- Transport definition, networking needs, and evolution
- IP over photonic layers
- Understanding the key optical elements and feature requirements of the NGN
- Opaque vs Transparent Switching technologies
- Control and Signaling planes (ASON,GMPLS, UNI, NNI)
- Metro Access and Core requirements
- DWDM and OADM in Metro Networks
- Ways to transport Carrier Grade Ethernet from the LAN to MAN to WAN
- Evolving from MPLS to T-MPLS?
Lunch 12:30pm - 1:30 pm
7. Operators' FTTx deployments experience
- FTTP deployments from around the world
- How do Korea, Japan, Italy and Sweden do it?
- How pop density and Rights of Way impacts on the costs
- The role of Utilities, Municipal and other deployers
- Other lessons learnt from the Europeans
- Why are incumbents are not committing to mass deployment of FTTP?
- Deploying fibre to the most economical point first
- Key Findings: FTTP in Urban vs Suburban vs Rural environments
- The real issue: Middle Mile vs Last Mile:
Afternoon Tea Break 3:00pm - 3:15pm
8. The FTTP NBN business case does it stack up
- Attributes for a successful business case
- FTTP is it the right choice?
- Is there a sustainable business model outside densely-populated areas?
- Initial Capital Investment
- Deriving Figures of Merit (NPV, IRR)
- Alternatives for FTTP investment
- If you build it will they actually come?
- Evolution in user behavior and bandwidth demand
- Why focusing on FTTP for the last mile is dangerous?
- How does HFC compare to VDSL and FTTP?
- What role for Broadband Wireless in the NBN?
- Broadband: On the move vs to the home
- Broadband Access for Rural Australia
- Are rural areas eligible for FTTP?
- The harsh reality of FTTP deployment
- Wireless vs FTTP. Does it have to be one or the other?
- How do we provide both fibre and competition in low pop density areas?
9. The Optical Future
- Optical Networking Past, Present, and Future
- The road to 100 Gigabits and beyond
- From Packets to Lambda
- Photonic Integration
- Today's Optical Network vs the future All-Optical Network
- The Optical Internet
- The Optical Home
Session Ends 4:30pm
