Table of 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    
Appendix IV – Operation with IEEE 1588: Principles    
Appendix V – Operation with IEEE 1588: Use cases for frequency and time of day synchronization    
Appendix VI – Operation with IEEE 1588    
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