POF-ALL Project. Paving the Optical Future with Affordable Lightning-fast Links

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1 POF-ALL Project Paving the Optical Future with Affordable Lightning-fast Links

2 Summary 2 The goal Partners Activities Impact Contacts

3 3 The goal

4 POF-ALL: The goal 4 IST-FP6 STREP project n POF-ALL means Paving the Optical Future with Affordable Lightning-fast Links Duration: 01/ /2008 (30 mo.) Total Cost: 2.6 m EC Contribution: 1.6 m POF-ALL shall develop a technology based on Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) to allow delivery of 100+ Mbit/s symmetrically to residential users at costs far lower than existing alternatives.

5 POF-ALL: The goal 5 The technical goal is to design and build low-cost optical modems based on large-core POF, operating symmetrically (upload speed = download speed) at 100 Mbit/s or more over distances of 200 meters or more The purpose is to enable broadband Internet access to everybody, by means of a low-capex optical technology optimised for the last part of residential access networks (edge networks), targeting in-building networks of large apartment houses, condominiums and high rise buildings simple enough to be installed by anyone, with no special tools, in in-house networks

6 POF-ALL: The goal 6 The use of large core POF (1mm diameter) greatly eases installation with respect to standard glass optical fiber (GOF) Large core POF is mechanically resilient, easy to connectorise and tolerant to dusty environment Installation can be done by unskilled personnel BUT The use of POF introduces significant challenges, due to physical transmission impairments POF has much higher attenuation and dispersion with respect to GOF The ultimate technical target of the project is to optimize components, devices, transmission and protocol to make POF optical modems possible

7 POF-ALL: The goal 7 POF-ALL will also gauge market s potential and assess customers requirement, to ensure that the project outcome will be an economically viable and cost-effective solution matching real user s requirements. An appraisal of the project s economic impact in Europe will be carried out, in order to evaluate how can a low-cost POF-based solution for edge access networks accelerate the accomplishment of EU s broadband-for-all policy. A constant work of information and dissemination will be carried out in order to attract interest, share results within EU and increase knowledge and accelerate adoption of POF-ALL s technical achievements.

8 8 Partners

9 POF-ALL: Partners 9 1. Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (Italy) 2. Luceat SpA (Italy) 3. DieMount GmbH (Germany) 4. Plastic Optical Fiber Application Center (Germany) 5. Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) 6. Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany) 7. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (The Netherlands) 8. Fastweb SpA (Italy) 9. STMicroelectronics (Italy)

10 POF-ALL: Partners 10 The consortium includes: two ICT research institutes (ISMB and Fraunhofer) two SME companies specifically devoted to POF (Luceat and Diemount) one large optoelectronic company (STMicroelectronics) one FTTH national telecom operator (Fastweb) three universities (POFAC, DUE and TUE) The consortium was created in order to put together: Basic research capabilities (through research centers and universities) Small companies working in the POF market A big optoelectronic vendor (STMicroelectronics) A perspective final user (Fastweb)

11 11 Activities

12 POF-ALL: Activities 12 The project is organized in seven work-packages: WP1 Advanced transmission techniques for 100 Mbit/s over long distances (300+ m) WP2 Module conception and transmission experiments of high speed data (1 Gbit/s and more) over intermediate distances (100+ m) WP3 Component support WP4 Fiber support WP5 Demonstration and Test-beds WP6 Economic impact, Dissemination WP7 Management

13 POF-ALL: Activities 13 Increasing POF system speed and distance WP1 WP2 (medium speed (high speed medium long distance) distance) Optimizing Components and Fibers WP3 WP4 (Component (Fiber Support) Support) WP5 Demonstration and Testbeds WP7 M A N A G E M E N T WP6 Economic impact - Dissemination

14 14 Impact

15 POF-ALL: Impact 15 Europe will take advantage of a low-cost and low- CapEx technology, ideal for telecomm operators to deliver true broadband to businesses and households Europe will be independent from extra-eu technologies for access networks implementation, as it is today with ADSL technologies European companies will be able to export knowledge developed by the POF-ALL consortium, promoting further investments and improving the competitiveness and technological role of Europe

16 16 ISMB and PoliTo

17 ISMB & PoliTo 17 Istituto Superiore Mario Boella is a non-profit research institution born with the task of transferring technology from university to enterprise Politecnico di Torino is one of the most important italian techincal universities

18 ISMB & PoliTo: PhotonLab 18 ISMB and PoliTO share PhotonLab, a research facilicy inside ISMB premises, in which the photonics group of ISMB works 5 research groups coming from the electronics and chemistry departments of PoliTO In particular, the OPTCOM group of PoliTO works with the phtonics group of ISMB in the POF-ALL project

19 ISMB & PhotonLab: photonics background 19 Backgound of PhotonLab mainly involves glass fibers and related components, for high speed and long distance communication. Microvawe photonics, optical sensors and special glasses are other research activities of interest in PhotonLab

20 IMB & PoliTo: POF research activities 20 POF research activities in PhotonLab started in 2003 First approach was with low-speed data communications Research topics also moved towards POF sensors and actuators

21 ISMB & PoliTo: The Fast-POF project 21 The last research project about optical communications with PMMA POF held the record result of 10Mb/s, fully compliant Ethernet transmission At OFC: poster JThB77

22 22 Contacts

23 POF-ALL & PhotonLab: Contacts WEB site: 23 For any info regarding the project: To contact the POF-ALL coordinator Dr. Roberto Gaudino To contact the PhotonLab coordinator Ing. Silvio Abrate