CONTENTS

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions 
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere          
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation              
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms              
 5     Architecture of the optical access network    
        5.1     Network architecture 
        5.2     Reference configuration           
 6     Migration scenarios
        6.1     Migration from legacy PON to XG-PON
        6.2     Migration from XG-PON1 to XG-PON2 
        6.3     Overlay of XG-PON or hybrid XG-PON   
        6.4     RE architecture options             
 7     Service requirements             
        7.1     Services           
        7.2     Maximum/mean signal transfer delay tolerance              
        7.3     Maximum Ethernet packet size              
        7.4     Synchronization features and quality    
        7.5     Leased line T1/E1 emulation    
        7.6     QoS and traffic management   
 8     Physical layer requirements 
        8.1     Fibre characteristics    
        8.2     Optical wavelengths of XG-PON             
        8.3     Bit rates          
        8.4     Optical power budget 
        8.5     Split ratio        
        8.6     Fibre distance
 9     System level requirements   
        9.1     Power saving and energy efficiency      
        9.2     Authentication/identification/encryption           
        9.3     Dynamic bandwidth assignment (DBA) 
        9.4     Eye safety       
10     Operational requirements   
       10.1     ONU management     
       10.2     PON supervision         
11     Resilience and protection on ODN   
Appendix I – Examples of practical XG-PON system architecture    
        I.1                 Services, UNIs and SNIs 
        I.2                 Typical system architectures        
        I.3                 Service protocol stacks  
Appendix II – Synchronizing requirements for wireless in CBU scenario    
Appendix III – External access network back-up    
      III.1     External access network back-up           
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