The total number of homes worldwide that will be reached by next-generation fiber-optic networks will soar from about 11 million this year to about 86 million in 2011, triggering a potentially massive deployment of a full range of digital and multimedia communications and entertainment services, according to a major new study released today by Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), the market research division of Light Reading Inc. (www.lightreading.com).
One of the interesting finding in the report is that FTTH expansion will be most aggressive in Asia, adding to that region's growing leadership role in deployment of advanced technologies. FTTH growth over the next five years will be dominated by Asia, where the number of connected households will grow to 59 million by the end of 2011. The rest of the subscriber base at 2011 will be split equally between the Americas (mainly the U.S.) and the EMEA (Europe/Middle East/Africa) region.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Friday, June 02, 2006
10 Gig EPON Standardization Activities
This standardization activity aims at supporting the Ethernet PON at 10Gbps. The standard is expected to affect only the physical layer, as the MPCP and OAM operations in 10 Gig EPON are expected to email the same.
An overview of the standardization activities are available in IEEE 802.3 10 Gbps PHY for EPON Study Group. A nice representation articulating the need of 10 Gig EPON is available here. The website also contains presentations form different companies made during the study group meet held at Austin, TX last week.
The meeting voted to submit a Project Authorization Request (PAR) to the next IEEE Plenary in July 2006. We should be proud that our distinguished alumini, Dr. Glen Kramer, has played a major initiative in coordinating the study group towards this goal.
It is nice to visit some of these meetings if they are help locally (as in San Francisco). I attended a IEEE 802.3ah meeting in 2003, and it was definitely an excellent learning process.
An overview of the standardization activities are available in IEEE 802.3 10 Gbps PHY for EPON Study Group. A nice representation articulating the need of 10 Gig EPON is available here. The website also contains presentations form different companies made during the study group meet held at Austin, TX last week.
The meeting voted to submit a Project Authorization Request (PAR) to the next IEEE Plenary in July 2006. We should be proud that our distinguished alumini, Dr. Glen Kramer, has played a major initiative in coordinating the study group towards this goal.
It is nice to visit some of these meetings if they are help locally (as in San Francisco). I attended a IEEE 802.3ah meeting in 2003, and it was definitely an excellent learning process.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Immenstar In EPON market
LightReading today has an interesting article about Immenstar, a startup, joining the EPON market. Immenstar has been operating in stealth mode for over two years. LightReading also mentions that Immenstar claims to have a multimillion dollar order due next month, possibly from UTStarComm which sells equipment to Softbank BB Corp for the deployment of Yahoo Broadband Service in Japan. UTStarComm previously used Passave (acquired by PMC-Sierra) chipsets but that didnt work very well as many of Passave chips had errors. The news article is available here.
The product portfolio of Immenstar is very interesting, it offers a Quad OLT chip with integrates 4 OLT ports and 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports with Non Blocking Switching. The company website mentions that the MuLan EPON Switch Chipset provides a carrier-class Ethernet ultrabroadband access solutions for network operators and service providers. It offers quality of service, fault tolerant operating system, hot swap capability, scalability, and high density system for the EPON access network.
It is interesting to see a startup in the EPON area, as there are already a bunch of companies competing for limited marketplace. EPON seems to be growing primarily in Japan and Korea while North America seems to be moving towards the GFP-PON market. And although different EPON chipset vendors promise to deliver quality of service, technologically there doesn't seem to be anything different that Immenstar has to offer compared to existing chipsets in the marketplace.
The product portfolio of Immenstar is very interesting, it offers a Quad OLT chip with integrates 4 OLT ports and 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports with Non Blocking Switching. The company website mentions that the MuLan EPON Switch Chipset provides a carrier-class Ethernet ultrabroadband access solutions for network operators and service providers. It offers quality of service, fault tolerant operating system, hot swap capability, scalability, and high density system for the EPON access network.
It is interesting to see a startup in the EPON area, as there are already a bunch of companies competing for limited marketplace. EPON seems to be growing primarily in Japan and Korea while North America seems to be moving towards the GFP-PON market. And although different EPON chipset vendors promise to deliver quality of service, technologically there doesn't seem to be anything different that Immenstar has to offer compared to existing chipsets in the marketplace.
Friday, May 12, 2006
Fourth Networks Lab Workshop
The fourth annual networks workshop at UCDavis is tomorrow. This is an excellent gathering of students working in networks at UCDavis, alumini, and various other participants from the industry. Last year, we had attendance of over a hundred people. I will be presenting my work on RAPID, which I presented at IPDPS.
Broadband Access Network Research Blog
Broadband Access networks technologies span optical access (Passive Optical Networks (PONs)), wireless technologies (Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX, Wireless Mesh) and hybrid combinations of the above two technologies. Research has led to massive development and deployment in the access networks.
At the Networks Lab at UC Davis, we have a team of 4 student researchers, who focus on access networks. This forum will have blogs by some of us.
At the Networks Lab at UC Davis, we have a team of 4 student researchers, who focus on access networks. This forum will have blogs by some of us.
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