ETSI TS 105 175-1-1 V1.1.1 (2015-10)

Access, Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing (ATTM); Plastic Optical Fibres; Part 1: Plastic Optical Fibre System Specifications for 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s; Sub-part 1: Application requirements for physical layer specifications for high-speed operations over Plastic Optical Fibres

RTS/ATTM-0240

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General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 19-Oct-2015
• Technical Committee: ATTM AT2 - Infrastructure, Physical Networks & Communication Systems
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Due Date: 11-Nov-2015
• Completion Date: 20-Oct-2015
• Ref Project: SIST-TS TS 105 175-1-1:2015 - Access, Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing (ATTM);Plastic Optical Fibres; Part 1: Plastic Optical Fibre System Specifications for 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s; Sub-part 1: Application requirements for physical layer specifications for high-speed operations over Plastic Optical Fibres

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ETSI TS 105 175-1-1 V1.1.1 (2015-10)






TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Access, Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing (ATTM);
Plastic Optical Fibres;
Part 1: Plastic Optical Fibre System Specifications for
100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s;
Sub-part 1: Application requirements for physical layer
specifications for high-speed operations over
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Reference
RTS/ATTM-0240
Keywords
application, fibre, optical, plastic

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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 4
Foreword . 4
Modal verbs terminology . 4
1 Scope . 5
2 References . 5
2.1 Normative references . 5
2.2 Informative references . 5
3 Abbreviations . 6
4 New home networking application requirements . 7
4.1 Introduction . 7
4.2 FTTH deployment . 8
4.3 Internet based services . 8
4.4 Current in-home networking services. 9
4.5 Current home networking technologies . 10
4.5.1 Introduction. 10
4.5.2 Ethernet CAT-5e/CAT-6 100 Mbit/s / 1 000 Mbit/s . 11
4.5.3 Wi-Fi 802. 11 a/b/g/n/ac . 11
4.5.4 Power Line Communications (PLC) . 11
4.5.5 G.hn . 11
4.5.6 POF (100 Mbit/s) . 11
4.6 Current home networking topologies . 13
4.7 New application requirements . 13
5 Gigabit POF as a the trunk home networking technology . 16
5.1 Introduction . 16
5.2 POF installation advantages . 16
5.3 POF based home networking topologies . 17
5.4 Suitability of a POF-WiFi-CAT-5e hybrid network . 18
5.5 POF Standards . 18
5.5.1 Introduction. 18
5.5.2 Fibre - IEC 60793-2-40 A4a.2 POF . 18
5.5.3 EN 50173-1 and EN 50173-4 . 19
5.5.4 ETSI TS 105 175-1 (V2.0.0). 19
5.5.5 IEEE 802.3 100BASE-FX . 21
5.5.6 ETSI TS 105 175-1-2 1 Gbit/s and 100 Mbit/s data rate physical layer for Plastic Optical Fibre . 21
5.5.7 Recommendation ITU-T G.9960 with Annex F for Plastic Optical Fibre . 22
6 Requirements for 1 Gbit/s and 100 Mbit/s POF based applications . 22
6.1 Introduction . 22
6.2 Physical layer requirements . 22
6.3 Ethernet layer performance . 23
6.4 Backwards compatibility . 23
6.5 Environmental requirements . 23
6.6 Topology requirements . 24
6.7 Energy Efficient Ethernet requirements . 24
6.8 Network Management requirements . 24
6.9 Diagnostic and monitoring requirements . 24
6.10 Higher Level System requirements . 24
History . 25

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Intellectual Property Rights
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pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found
in ETSI SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in
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can be given as to the existence of other IPRs not referenced in ETSI SR 000 314 (or the updates on the ETSI Web
server) which are, or may be, or may become, essential to the present document.
Foreword
This Technical Specification (TS) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Access, Terminals, Transmission
and Multiplexing (ATTM).
The present document is part 1, sub-part 1 of a multi-part deliverable covering Plastic Optical fibre, as identified below:
Part 1: " Plastic Optical Fibre System Specifications for100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s";
Sub-part 1: "Application requirements for physical layer specifications for high-speed operations
over Plastic Optical Fibres";
Sub-part 2: "1 Gbit/s and 199 Mbit/s physical later for Plastic Optical Fibres".
Modal verbs terminology
In the present document "shall", "shall not", "should", "should not", "may", "need not", "will", "will not", "can" and
"cannot" are to be interpreted as described in clause 3.2 of the ETSI Drafting Rules (Verbal forms for the expression of
provisions).
"must" and "must not" are NOT allowed in ETSI deliverables except when used in direct citation.
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1 Scope
The present document provides a compendium of application requirements for full-duplex 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s
Ethernet based home networking infrastructures based on Plastic Optical Fibre (POF) transmission media. The
description of applications covers different network topologies as well as different field particularities.
2 References
2.1 Normative references
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the
referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
Referenced documents, which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location, might be found at
http://docbox.etsi.org/Reference.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee
their long-term validity.
The following referenced documents are necessary for the application of the present document.
[1] ETSI TS 105 175-1 (V2.0.0): "Access, Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing (ATTM);
Plastic Optical Fibre System Specifications for 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s".
[2] IEC 60793-2:2011: "Optical fibres - Part 2: Product specifications - General".
[3] IEC 60793-2-40: "Optical fibres - Part 2-40: Product specifications - Sectional specification for
category A4 multimode fibres".
[4] IEC 60794-2-40: "Optical fibre cables - Part 2-40: Indoor optical fibre cables - Family
specification for A4 fibre cables".
[5] ETSI TS 105 175-1-2: "Access, Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing (ATTM); Plastic
Optical Fibres; Part 1: Plastic Optical Fibre System Specifications for 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s;
Sub-part 2: 1 Gbit/s and 100 Mbit/s physical layer for Plastic Optical Fibres".
[6] CENELEC EN 50173-1:2011: "Information technology - Generic cabling systems -
Part 1: General requirements".
[7] CENELEC EN 50173-4:2007: "Information technology - Generic cabling systems -
Part 4: Homes".
[8] IETF RFC 2544: "Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices".
[9] IEEE™ 802.3: "IEEE™ Standard for Ethernet".
[10] Recommendation ITU-T Y.1564: "Ethernet service activation test methodology".
2.2 Informative references
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the
referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee
their long-term validity.
The following referenced documents are not necessary for the application of the present document but they assist the
user with regard to a particular subject area.
[i.1] Recommendation ITU-T G.9960: "Unified high-speed wire-line based home networking
transceivers - System architecture and physical layer specification".
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[i.2] IEEE™ 802.3z: "Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers, Repeater and Management
Parameters for 1,000 Mb/s Operation, Supplement to Information Technology - Local and
Metropolitan Area Networks - Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
(CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications".
[i.3] IEEE™ 802.3u: "Local and Metropolitan Area Networks-Supplement - Media Access Control
(MAC) Parameters, Physical Layer, Medium Attachment Units and Repeater for 100Mb/s
Operation, Type 100BASE-T (clauses 21-30)".
[i.4] IEEE™ 802.1Q: "IEEE™ Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Virtual Bridged
Local Area Networks".
[i.5] IEEE™ 802.1p: "IEEE™ Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Supplement to
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges: Traffic Class Expediting and Dynamic Multicast
Filtering".
[i.6] IEEE™ 802.1D: "IEEE™ Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks: Media Access
Control (MAC) Bridges".
[i.7] IEEE™ 802.11a -1999: "Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer
(PHY) specifications. High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz Band".
[i.8] European Council Document 12608: "The potential dangers of electromagnetic fields and their
effect on the environment".
[i.9] Broadband Forum TR-069 Amendment 4: "CPE WAN Management Protocol".
[i.10] IETF RFC from 3410 to 3418: "Internet Management Protocol. SNMPv3".
[i.11] Broadband Forum TR-143: "Enabling Network Throughput Performance Tests and Statistical
Monitoring".
[i.12] ICT ALPHA [PUBLIC] D1.1p: "Architectures for flexible Photonic Home and Access Networks' -
"End user future services in access, mobile and in building networks".
[i.13] ANSI/TIA/EIA-568: "Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standards".
[i.14] ISO/IEC 9314-3:1990: "Information processing systems -- Fibre distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
-- Part 3: Physical Layer Medium Dependent (PMD)".
3 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
B2B Business-to-Business
BER Bit Error Rate
BW Bandwidth
CAT Category
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
DVB-X Digital Video Broadcasting technology
ECG Electro Cardio Gram
EHC Electronic Health Care
EHG Electro Hystero Gram
EMC Electro Magnetic Compatibility
EMI Electro Magnetic Immunity
EU European Union
FDDI Fibre Distributed Data Interface
FEC Forward Error Correction
FER Frame Error Rate
FTTH Fibre To The Home
GOF Glass Optical Fibre
HD High Definition
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HDTV High Definition Television
ICT Information and Communication Technologies
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IP Internet Protocol
IPTV IP Television
IT Information Technology
ITU International Telecommunication Union
ITU-T ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
LC Lucent Connector
MAC Media Access Control
MDI Medium Dependent Interface
MDU Multi Dwelling Units
MIC Media Interface Connector
MMOG Massively Multiplayers Online Games
MTRJ Mechanical Transfer Registered Jack
MTTFPA Mean Time To False Packet Acceptance
MTU Maximum Transfer Unit
NA Not Applicable
NDIM Neighbouring Domain Interference Mitigation
NIR Near Infra Red
NRZ Non Return to Zero
NRZI Non Return to Zero Inverted
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency De-multiplexing
PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PCS Physical Coding Sublayer
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PHY Physical
PLC Power Line Communications
PMA Physical Medium Attachment
PMD Physical Medium Dependent
POF Plastic Optical Fibre
RFC Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication of the Internet Engineering Task Force
RJ Registered Jack
RX Reception
SC Subscriber Connector
SI-POF Step Index Plastic Optical Fibre
ST Straight Tip connector
STB Set Top Box
STB/TV Set Top Box / Television
TC Technical Committee
TV Television
TX Transmission
UHDTV Ultra High Definition TV
UPA Universal Powerline Association
US United States of America
VDE VDE, the Association for Electrical, Electronic &Information Technologies
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VPN Virtual Private Network
xDSL Generic Digital Subscriber Line technology
4 New home networking application requirements
4.1 Introduction
In the past, POF has been used in the networking market with limited success. The main reasons for that are:
• xDSL was bringing up to 20 Mbit/s to the home.
• PLC and Wi-Fi™ already fulfilled the requirement for the home networking.
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In Europe, since 2009, and much earlier in Japan, South Korea and US, the situation has changed. Telecom operators
are in a competitive race of bit rates and prices and are using different access technologies as marketing slogans. In
parallel with this market push effort, bit rate demand is steadily increasing due to new services like HD-IPTV,
Clouding, VPN, and life/work styles (Remote jobs, self-employment, etc.).
This competitive landscape has forced telecom operators to invest on massive FTTH deployment projects.
• At the end of 2011 > 75 million FTTH subscribers worldwide. At 2020, up to 50 % of EU households should
have 100 Mbit/s.
The bitrate race has started from 20 Mbit/s (xDSL/Cable) to 50 Mbit/s, 100 Mbit/s and 200 Mbit/s. Rather than price
reduction as a strategy, telecom operators are offering more and more bit-rates supporting new services.
To fulfil this trend, a robust, reliable, stable and flexible network topology is needed within the house. The customer
needs to be able to use the total provided bit-rate in any point of the house as well as have a remaining extra bandwidth
to be used for services like file sharing and local video streaming.
A hybrid mixture of networking technologies, offering Fixed-Wired-Reliable network and a Wi-Fi Flexible-Mobility-
Ubiquity, is demanded. Tablets, Laptops and smart-phones require a Mobile network. Fixed PCs, Multimedia hard-
drives, IPTV set-top-boxes and routers are normally wire connected.
New wire installations may reuse mains conduits within a daisy chain/tree topology. This is the easiest, less expensive
and fastest way to introduce a new wiring either in green (new construction) or brown (already constructed) fields.
Moreover, wired networks are naturally more "Energy Efficient" than wireless. Energy efficiency is an important topic
in the society for two reasons: environmental care arguments are forcing the use of an Energy Efficient infrastructure.
Secondly, health reasons are starting to force the limitation in transmitted power in the Wi-Fi network, limiting the
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high-speed coverage to a single room (see Council of Europe. Document 12608 [i.8] May 6 2011).
4.2 FTTH deployment
Even when Asia-Pacific countries are leading the FTTH deployment, North America is following with a big growth
rate. Europe is following the tendency.
This deployment multiplies by 2, 4 or even 10 times the available bitrates in the home. New services are offered in
parallel to just the Internet connection. This increase of the services is seen by the Internet Providers as a fundamental
requirement in todays competitive market. The Internet Provider offers the bit rate and the services. That is why the
quality of the access network, as well as the quality of the home network is a major requirement of this deployment.
Home networking has to accommodate to the required performance, robustness, and feasibility of the offered services.
The Internet providers are the main supporters of a high quality home networking.
4.3 Internet based services
To the traditional World Wide Web surfing and e-mail services, other services have been added to the public Internet
offer:
• Voice over IP: Traditional analogue phone lines are being replaced more and more with VoIP digital
technology. Nevertheless, the requirements of this service are more related with signal jitter and latency than
with bit rates. A low packet error rate is required to avoid artefacts in the sound.
• Video over IP, or IPTV: Consists on providing video services over IP networks, within a local network, or
via the Internet. Currently the IPTV business is growing and competing with Satellite, Cable and Terrestrial
TV. The biggest added value of IPTV over its competitors is the Pay-Per-View service. IPTV requires high
bandwidths up to 16 Mbit/s for a very high quality HD compressed video. Multi room IPTV (several TVs in a
home) is now becoming a popular service offered in most of the provider portfolio. Jitter is typically an
important metric for this type of service, whereas latency is not. There is an increase in demand for HDTV as
well as more than one HDTV terminal per household. Each HDTV service requires around 4 Mbit/s to
20 Mbit/s depending on the quality issued and programme type (news, sports, etc.).
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• Telework: Home-based Businesses and Remote employment opportunities. Remote access to office networks
requires bitrates in the order of 1 Mbit/s to 10 Mbit/s. But home workers will appreciate speeds as fast as
possible, even 100 Mbit/s, to have the same work experience as in the office. Telework is growing in US and
Europe as a consequence of the economic downturn and the increasing cost of transportation. Work-life
balance is also playing an important role in Telework growth.
• Telehealth: Access to Healthcare Professionals and "multiplication of specialists". Consists mainly in video
traffic, requiring low latency and 2 Mbit/s speed.
• Tele-education: Specialized courses, retention of impacted workers and enhancement of classroom training.
Typical requirements are around 1 Mbit/s to 2 Mbit/s speed.
• E-Government: Access to forms and applications, communication to representatives, citizen involvement,
intelligent first-responders.
• File storing in the "cloud": The requirement is "as fast as possible". Pictures and videos represents multi
gigabyte source of information in a house nowadays. Moving all this information may take forever if speed is
not high enough.
• Online gaming: Requirements of 1 Mbit/s and low latency is needed for this service.
• Sustainability: Energy management systems within the home and the future Smart Grid deployment will also
add to the demand for higher bandwidth at home.
In table 1 a summary of the main needs of current Internet services is shown (see ICT Alpha [i.12]).
Table 1: Needs of Internet services
Service Bit rate Delay Jitter Packet loss Mobility Traffic Security
Priority
Internet 1 Mbit/s to Relaxed < 10 ms None Yes Low No
-8
100 Mbit/s specification
(BER < 10 )
Music 5 kbit/s to Buffer Buffer < 1 % Yes High No
128 kbit/s dependent dependent
File sharing 1 Mbit/s to Relaxed < 10 ms None Yes Low No
-8
(peer-to- 100 Mbit/s specification
(BER < 10 )
peer)
Web3D 10 Mbit/s to Relaxed < 10 ms None Yes Low No
-8
1 Gbit/s specification
(BER < 10 )

4.4 Current in-home networking services
The communication networks essentially allow an exchange of information between persons, between persons and
equipment (e.g. a video server), and between equipment (e.g. a sensor and an actuator). Based on the type of the
information exchange and the inherent service requirements, the following groups/classes of services can be identified
(see ICT Alpha [i.12]):
• Basic communication such as telephony, e-mail, and instant messaging.
• Internet-related services such as general browsing, e-banking, e-shopping and similar; including file sharing.
• Video-related services such as Video on Demand, IPTV, video conferencing and similar.
• Online Virtual Environments such as social network or gaming.
• Remote Technical services such as the ability to remotely control/survey your home.
• Remote Health services such as remote health monitoring.
From the above classification, video-related services are among the most bandwidth demanding services with presence
today at the home. A few examples follow:
• IPTV.
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• Video on Demand, multimedia content production and delivery.
• Video conferencing and video telephony.
• Video streaming/Home Theatre.
• TV Broadcast (DVB-X).
Table 2 summarizing the demands for these applications follows (see ICT Alpha [i.12]).
Table 2: New application demands
Service Bit rate Delay Jitter Packet loss Mobility Traffic Security
Priority
IPTV 2 Mbit/s to < 400 ms; < 50 ms < 1 %; Yes High No
20 Mbit/s 200 ms < 0,1 %
(for HD) recommended recommended
VoD 2 Mbit/s to < 400 ms; < 50 ms < 1 %; Yes High No
1 Gbit/s 200 ms < 0,1 %
recommended recommended
Videoconference 128 kbit/s to < 400 ms; < 50 ms < 1 %; Yes High No
4 Mbit/s 200 ms < 0,1 %
recommended recommended
Video Streaming 128 kbit/s to < 400 ms; < 50 ms < 1 %; No High No
(uncompressed) 10 Gbit/s 200 ms < 0,1 %
recommended recommended
TV Broadcast 96 kbit/s to < 400 ms < 20 ms None Yes High No
(DVB-IP) 45 Mbit/s (HD) (or use FEC)
TV Broadcast N/A rather BW < 400 ms < 20 ms None Yes High No
(DVB-x, non IP occupied up to (or use FEC)
based) 8 MHz
Immersive TV 24 Gbit/s < 400 ms; < 20 ms < 0,4 % No High No
(e.g. UHDTV) uncompressed; < 150 ms
< 640 Mbit/s recommended
compressed
Immersive < 640 Mbit/s < 400 ms; < 20 ms < 0,2 % No High No
Videoconference compressed < 150 ms
using UHDTV recommended
Stereoscopic TV 62,5 Mbit/s to < 400 ms; < 20 ms < 0,4 % No High No
320 Mbit/s < 150 ms
recommended
Free Viewpoint 937,5 Mbit/s < 400 ms; < 20 ms < 0,4 % No High No
TV < 150 ms
recommended

4.5 Current home networking technologies
4.5.1 Introduction
The main classification criteria for home networking technologies is the one based on wired versus no wired home
networks. The flexibility provided by no wired networks has to be well balanced with other advantages provided by the
wired technologies. These advantages are summarized in the following paragraph:
• Wired networks are more stable and dependable than wireless and channel interference in wired network from
other devices is non-existent (or other access points operating in the same channel).
• Wired networks are faster than their wireless counterparts with, multi-media, voice, video, network games and
other real time applications performing better in a wired network.
• Wired networks are more secure despite the existence of encryption in wireless networks. It is still possible for
a determi
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