Re: [802.3_NGEPON] NG-EPON Study Group Weekly meeting notes

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Folks,

I have been having discussions with a few people on an expansion of the objectives, which I would like to bring up to everyone. Curtis alluded to this additional objective during the meeting last week, which I and others at Comcast was unable to attend because of conflicting meetings.

The currently proposed objectives regarding capacity for NG-EPON are as follows:

An EPON PHY, operating over single SMF strand, at the symmetric data rate of at least 25 Gb/s in downstream and at least 25 Gb/s upstream
An EPON PHY, operating over single SMF strand, at the asymmetric data rate of at least 25 Gb/s in downstream and at least 10 Gb/s upstream
An EPON PHY, operating over single SMF strand, at the symmetric data rate of at least 40 Gb/s in downstream and at least 40 Gb/s upstream
An EPON PHY, operating over single SMF strand, at the symmetric data rate of at least 40 Gb/s in downstream and at least 10 Gb/s upstream

At Comcast we believe that we should develop an NG-EPON standard that is scalable beyond 25 or 40 Gbps. The process for developing an EPON standard takes quite some time, because of which we believe we need to look beyond 5 years as we develop the standard.

Many of us MSOs have been providing broadband services for almost 20 years now, and have always observed a usage growth and a service offering growth of 50% year over year, requiring a doubling of the network capacity every other year. Comcast is now deploying 10G EPON and offering 2 Gbps service now (this is a statement of fact, not conjecture), and therefore we recognize that we will need to grow the network capacity beyond 50G in around 4-5 years and offer peak speeds beyond 10G within the same timeframe.

We believe that we need a standard that will incorporate bonding of Nx25G channels (or Nx40G channels if 40G is economically feasible). This does not mean that the first product needs to support Nx wavelengths. Quite the contrary, the first product, which we believe will be available by around the 2017 timeframe, needs only support 25G. But, by 2019 we need 2x25G bonded, by 2022 we need 4x25G bonded, and by 2024 we need beyond that rate.

Therefore, we propose that the goals for NG-EPON include:

An EPON PHY, operating over single SMF strand, at the symmetric data rate of at least 25 Gb/s in downstream and at least 25 Gb/s upstream
An EPON PHY, operating over single SMF strand, at the asymmetric data rate of at least 25 Gb/s in downstream and at least 10 Gb/s upstream
~~An EPON PHY, operating over single SMF strand, at the symmetric data rate of at least 40 Gb/s in downstream and at least 40 Gb/s upstream~~
~~An EPON PHY, operating over single SMF strand, at the symmetric data rate of at least 40 Gb/s in downstream and at least 10 Gb/s upstream~~
An EPON PHY, operating over single SMF strand, at a symmetric data rate that is a whole multiple of 25 Gb/s downstream and a whole multiple of 25 Gb/s upstream
An EPON PHY, operating over single SMF strand, at a symmetric data rate that is a whole multiple of 25 Gb/s downstream and at least 10 Gb/s upstream

An important note is that we believe the above goals are in line with the role of the Study Group as these do not outline HOW to achieve the goals. Instead the goals just state WHAT to target in terms of speeds. So, while I state above that we need to strive for a standard that implements bonding, the goals don’t state that.

We also suggest to scratch the goal for 40 Gbps because this goal is covered by the “at least 25 Gbps” single speed/wavelength objective and by the addition of the new multi lane requirements.

Thanks!

Jorge

Folks,

Please let me know if I need to add or revise any of the notes below.

Curtis

08/20/2015

IEEE 802.3 NG-EPON Study Group Work Items and Socialization

Meeting Start: 11:30

Meeting End: 12:30

Review of Guidelines for IEEE-SA meetings.

https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject/Public/mytools/mob/preparslides.pdf
Has anyone not seen these Guidelines? Everyone has seen the guidelines

Email reflector

After today (8/20/15) email reflector will be IEEE reflector:

STDS-802-3-NGEPON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If you were previously on ng-epon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, please go here to subscribe to IEEE reflector:

http://www.ieee802.org/3/NGEPONSG/reflector.html

Call for Contributions

First Study Group meeting is:

September 14-15, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Contribution deadline: September 4, 2015 AOE
Send initial PDF and indicate amount of time desiredto c.knittle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Study Group Objectives

General comments:

Bill – would like to get to task force by November – would like to avoid getting bogged down with extra objectives
Glen – We need to analyze every comment to make sure it answers “what” and not “how” – CFI is for “why,” Study Group is for “what,” Task Force is for “how.” Perfectly fine to say we want to achieve a certain bit rate, but not fine to say how it is achieved.

Offline feedback:

Duane (via email): I would like to note that I have concerns regarding the 40Gbps objective wording
Jorge (via email): we have comments/suggestions along the lines of suggesting a more specific objective for N x base-PMD

Alan – Objective 802.3av listed a PHY and a bit rate
See changes to R05 of the objectives here:

https://owncloud.cablelabs.com/public.php?service=files&t=4951cd9a35045bade1c1b0729eecaac0

Regarding weekly meetings and finishing objectives and CSD and PAR

Curtis to check on IEEE processes. Is there a pre-submission requirement? Can we make decisions early in plenary, and then present at closing plenary?
Can we vote during the weekly meetings?

Table 1: Attendees

Name Employer/Affiliation

Curtis Knittle CableLabs

Alan Brown CommScope

Bill Powell ALU

Bruce Chow Corning

Barry Colella Source Photonics

Ed Harstead ALU

Fernando Villarruel Cisco

Glen Kramer Broadcom

Hesham ElBakoury Huawei

Marek Hajduczenia Bright House Networks

Mark Laubach Broadcom

Michael Peters Sumitomo

Mike Emmendorfer Arris

Ryan Tucker Charter

Francois Menard Aeponyx

Derrick Cassidy BT

Ryan Hirth Broadcom