Fiber to the Distribution Point

Mission Statement:

To establish common related technical specification for FTTdp in order to ensure maximal equipment and management interoperability.

Work Area Directors: Christopher Croot, Sven Ooghe

Business Impact:

The Fiber to the Distribution Point (FTTdp) network offers a number of new important benefits to operators and its customers. First, it allows deployment of FTTH ultra-fast broadband network without actually having to install fiber at the customer premises. This increases the service take-up rate and requires zero-touch provider provisioning with customer install, no rewiring and no truck roll. Secondly, it offers the opportunity to lower OpEx through reverse powering and remote connectivity reconfiguration. It opens up new opportunities to service multi-tenant/dwelling business and residential locations with different requirements. Finally, the ultra-fast broadband network opens up a new market for provisioning of high-value performance-assured applications and services. By developing specifications for architecture, management and interoperability, the FTTdp Work Area plays a key role in accelerating time to market.

Scope:

FTTdp access architecture, encompassing architectural, nodal functional and network management requirements for FTTdp access architectures, in order to drive interoperability and best practice. This also includes the specification of YANG management models for the Distribution Point Units (DPUs).