Technical and market feasibility of high-speed software-reconfigurable OOFDM/DFMA-based Optical transceivers for Next Generation Access Network PONs

This paper outlines part of the work in the TEROPON project to evaluate the feasibility of developing novel high-speed software-reconfigurable optical transceivers based on Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) and Digital Filter Multiple Access (DFMA) technologies for Next Generation PONs in the Access Network. It examines the key product requirements, describes some of the experimental work and includes an initial assessment of the technical and market feasibility of these technologies for this application.