The FSAN group

Written on 3:19 PM by ooe

The FSAN group has been around for 17 years now and is split into optical systems and copper systems. This chapter will deal only with the optical systems. The basic FSAN recommendations were input into the ITU-T some time ago with the baseline documents being G.983.1 and G.983.2. Recent work has resulted in new standards which enhance the usefulness of the basic PON systems in certain circumstances. These will be discussed further in this chapter.

What is of interest is that work in the group is not coming to an end as one might expect. Rather the group are moving on to higher specification PON systems. Work is progressing on higher bit rate PONs although the technology underlying the new architectures (i.e. ATM or Ethernet) has yet to be agreed. Limited further information is included later within this chapter as the key agreements have yet to be reached.