SCTE® LiveLearning for Professionals Webinar™ Series: Enabling Coherent Optics in the Access Network

Led by CableLabs, cable technologists are bringing coherent detection to the cable access network to boost the efficiency and capacity of existing fiber links. Based on CableLabs’ 100G Point-to-Point (P2P) Coherent Optics specification, optical vendors have developed cutting-edge optical aggregation nodes and coherent termination devices to provide symmetrical 100 Gbps capacity per wavelength on fiber optics in the access network. These high-capacity optical links can aggregate traffic for nodes in a distributed access architecture; wireless backhaul; data centers and enterprises. With cable operators deploying P2P coherent optics out to the nodes today, the next set of specifications, for 100G Coherent PON (CPON), are being developed to apply coherent optics to both infrastructure and fiber-to-the-home use cases.

How much difference will all this make? What work must still be done? When might 100G CPON products be available? This webinar will delve into these issues

Speakers:

Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Steve Harris, Executive Director, Technical Sales, Learning & Development, SCTE/ISBE

Kevin A. Noll, Principal Access Architect in the Office of the CTO, Vecima