Performance Evaluation of the 10 Gigabit Symmetric PON for Triple-Play Services

The massive use of triple-play service (high-speed internet, real-time voice, and high-quality video) has created an enormous capacity problem to access network infrastructures. Moreover, the triple-play service requires a large bandwidth to meet the user's expectations and satisfaction. The higher the quality of the triple-play service content, the provided bandwidth must be more significant. This condition encourages telecommunication operators to increase their capacity by using 10-Gigabit-capable symmetric passive optical network (XGS-PON) technology to deliver triple-play services at a speed of 10 Gbps for upstream and downstream directions. The implementation of triple-play services on the XGS-PON must guarantee its functions and capabilities to meet regulation and standardization requirements. However, it has been no regulation and standardization regarding triple-play services in XGS-PON in Indonesia. The test result shows internet service on XGS-PON supports IPv4 and IPv6 protocols following ITU-T G.9807. XGS-PON also supports MAC Frame format according to IEEE 802.3, and VLAN ID refers to IEEE 802.1Q. The XGS-PON also supports real-time voice service using SIP protocol and the G.711 and G.729 audio CODECS to interoperate with legacy technology. The XGS-PON supports video services according to ITU-T G.9807 with multicast video services using IGMP version 2 and IGMP version 3 and unicast video services using the UDP/RTP protocol. All of these results were obtained by the proposed test method and performance evaluation for XGS-PON.