IMPACT

Acronym/Short Name: IMPACT
Proposal Full Name: Integrated multi-wavelength passive optical access system
Project Coordinator: Dr. Jörg-Peter Elbers
Email: jelbers@advaoptical.com
Organisation: ADVA AG Optical Networking
Partners per country: 2 x DE, 3 x UK, 1 x IL, 1 x AT
Duration (months): 36

Project abstract

IMPACT targets a novel DWDM-PON (Dense Wavelength Divison Multiplexing - Passive Optical Network) access system with 80 x 1 Gb/s wavelength channels at 50 GHz channel spacing. Focusing on the overall system architecture and the Optical Line Termination (OLT) equipment, it will develop the necessary optical and electronic base technologies for a DWDM-PON OLT with Tb/s capacity and demonstrate end-to-end service delivery.

In particular, IMPACT's objectives are:

  • Development of an integrated 40 x 1 Gb/s multi-channel DWDM transceiver demonstrator for the OLT
  • Development of a Tb/s aggregation platform architecture for the OLT
  • Development of an aggregation card demonstrator for the OLT
  • Development of DSP methods for a ten-fold capacity scaling for the OLT
  • Validation of DWDM-PON technologies in a lab environment & field trial

Partners in the IMPACT project are: ADVA Optical Networking (DE/PL/UK), Oclaro Technology (UK), University College London (UK), Technical University Berlin (DE), Energie AG Oberösterreich Data (AT).

IMPACT will remove market barriers in Gb/s Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployment by substantially reducing cost, power consumption, footprint and improving scaling over present solutions. It will help the industrial partners ADVA and Oclaro to make WDM-PON technologies ready for mass-deployment and provide an accelerated route to a subsequent commercial implementation.