POF Newsletter Mar Apr 2010

Newsletter Covering Worldwide Developments in the Technology, Market, and Application of Plastic Optical Fiber

Vol. 20 No. 2 March/April 2010

In This Issue...
CEDIA EXPO 2010
registration to open June 1,
2010.................................2

Firecomms licenses Op-
toLock to Suttle for new POF
wall plate..........................3

High spirits at second MOST
Forum...............................4
Source: ElectronicBRICKS™
See page 7...11 for ElectronicBRICKS™ company profile. Highly Sensitive Bend Sen-
CONFERENCES sor Based on Bragg Grating
in Eccentric Core Polymer
POF Symposium @ OFC/NFOEC 2010 a standing-room-only Fiber.................................6
success; presentations now available Source: ElectronicBRICKS™
On March 25, POFTO hosted the “POF Symposium @ FTTx POF products and solu-
NFOEC/OFC 2010” on the show floor. Over a dozen presentations for ‘the last hundred me-
tions were made over a three-hour period on the latest devel- ters’..................................9
opment of POF and its applications. The audience filled up the
main seating area and people were standing in the aisles. Home networking using Eth-
Of special interest was a presentation by AT&T on their ernet over POF...............10
experience in wiring four homes in the Northern California
area.
The objective was to learn how installers would react to
POF and what was needed in the way of new equipment and
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interfaces to make this a viable option for AT&T tee network reliability, and enhance customer
installation of home wiring. satisfaction ratings.
Copies of the presentations are available Orange’s OptoLock-enabled fiber-optic
at http://www.pofto.org/home/node/88 with your kits offer a reliable home networking solution
POFTO Member login. If you are not currently by allowing the distribution of a POF network
a member, you may register on the page to re- throughout the house.
ceive a special free login by email to download The ready-to-install fiber-optic kit enables
these presentations. Orange customers and installers to connect
a TV or computer within a high-speed home
CEDIA EXPO 2010 registration to open June network in just minutes, minimizing the visual
1, 2010 impact of the connection due to POF’s ultrathin
CEDIA EXPO is the No. 1 tradeshow in diameter.
the residential electronic systems industry. At- Orange has cited technical performance,
tending CEDIA EXPO gives you an advantage simplicity of installation, and discreet design
over the competition by providing the latest tech- as benefits of the fiber-optic kit. According to
nologies, free training on the latest products, Orange field trial results, 98 percent of users
and the industry’s best education with CEDIA expressed deep satisfaction with this innovative
University courses. CEDIA EXPO gives you the technology.
best strategies to profit in home entertainment, “This POF product offering by one of the
environmental control, energy management, largest telecommunications companies in the
green technology, home health, security, and world demonstrates the overwhelming benefits
more. of POF to operators and customers alike,” said
CEDIA EXPO is your place to meet and Hugh Hennessy, vice president of sales and
connect with the industry’s best professionals. If marketing for Firecomms.
you are a current professional in home entertain- “This deployment is one of many as op-
ment, security, lighting control, environmental erators and installers seek ways to overcome
control, energy management, retrofit, home con- the disadvantages associated with traditional
trol, home health, home theater, audio systems, wired technologies.”
integration, or are someone looking to break into The design of OptoLock enables the fiber
the residential electronic systems industry, you to be cut and terminated to the exact required
need to be at CEDIA EXPO. length on site, enabling even the most novice
For more information, please visit: http:// consumer to quickly and easily terminate the
www.cedia.net/expo. bare optical fiber. This means that OptoLock
enables all the advantages of optical fiber to
DEPLOYMENTS be brought into the home with do-it-yourself
simplicity and costs. The benefits of this simple,
Orange launches OptoLock-enabled fiber- robust high-speed interface will be significant
optic home installations as high-speed services like 100Mbps IPTV are
Firecomms announced that its OptoLock delivered into the home.
transceiver is a key component of the home net-
working solution being deployed by Orange. A AT&T recognizes Firecomms’ participation
key brand of France Telecom, one of the world’s in completed and pending POF proof-of-
leading telecommunications operators, Orange concept studies
is deploying POF as the medium of choice in AT&T has acknowledged Firecomms’s
the home to reduce installation times, guaran- participation in a successful proof-of-concept
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study of POF as a connectivity option for its U- products for the telecom and datacom industries
verse IPTV service. worldwide. OptoLock, an easy-to-use, low-cost
At the latest OFC Conference & Exposi- housing for instant termination of bare POF,
tion, staff members of AT&T Network Operations provides plugless terminations that allow for
presented results of a 2009 POF proof-of-con- simpler, quicker connections of communications
cept study held in California’s bay area. Due to and infotainment network devices.
the on-site evaluations and favorable comments “Suttle is excited to offer the first commer-
from both U-verse premises technicians and cially available POF to POF passive OptoLock
their supervisors, AT&T Network Operations will wall plate adapter system, which we’ve added
continue to pursue investigations of OptoLock- to our SpeedStar line of modular connectiv-
based POF home networks as a viable option ity,” said Bill Heuer, senior product manager.
for the connectivity of U-verse services. “Firecomms has pioneered the development of
During a panel session at the recent POF as a low-cost alternative for copper cabling
Broadband Properties 2010 Summit, AT&T area in home networking, which we look forward to
manager Robert Michetich discussed the poten- support.”
tial benefits of POF connectivity, including its “With the rapid adoption of OptoLock by
reduction in installation time, immunity to noise, an increasing number of equipment providers,
and use of future-proof technology. we are pleased to license our technology to
A larger proof-of-concept study by AT&T, Suttle, a well established telecom vendor that
which includes a 350-unit MDU and potentially has been supplying communication equipment
50 single-family homes, is pending. Like the first to companies worldwide since 1910,” said
study, this project will include POF switches, Lawrence Thorne, Firecomms’ vice president of
passive wall plates, and media converters, as sales and marketing, the Americas. “Suttle, like
well as integrated set-top boxes, all powered by all suppliers of OptoLock products, will manufac-
Firecomms OptoLock technology. ture its product based on a common mechanical
“Recognizing the merits of POF deploy- specification for the fiber interface.”
ment to guarantee network reliability, reduce Suttle’s new SpeedStar OptoLock wall
subscriber installation costs, and maximize plate adapter system will be available in Q2
ARPU (average revenue per user), operators 2010.
worldwide are increasing the use of POF-based
networking solutions,” said Firecomms’ vice COMOSS announces Gigabit POF products
president of sales and marketing for the Ameri- for POF network solutions
cas, Lawrence Thorne. “Firecomms’ continues COMOSS is launching a series of POF
to expand its work with the POF equipment Gigabit Ethernet product in 2010: the Giga POF
vendor community to ensure the development Ethernet PCI card, Giga POF-to-Ethernet Media
of the broadest variety of POF-based network- Converter ,and Giga POF switch hub. Compliant
ing solutions.” to new ETSI technical specifications, COMOSS
now can provide POF Ethernet products up
BUSINESS to data rates 1000Mbps. For FTTX and FTTH
(Fiber-to-the-home) triple-play applications,
Firecomms licenses OptoLock to Suttle for COMOSS can provide a total solution for POF
new POF wall plate networks, offering its customers not only Fast
Firecomms announced that it has li- Ethernet, but also Gigabit POF network solution.
censed its OptoLock interconnect system to Please visit http://www.comoss.com/news.htm
Suttle, a supplier of communication connectivity for more information.

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COMOSS releases POF Evaluation Board applications beyond pure infotainment,” said
Series Dr. Christian Thiel, MOST Cooperation admin-
The COMOSS Plastic Optical Fiber Eval- istrator. “The conference marks the kickoff for
uation Board Series allows the user to examine the MOST future in proving the technology’s
a data link over POF and test the operation of compliance to new connectivity interfaces and
the fiber-optic transceivers. Each evaluation functionalities.”
board carries the POF transceiver components Response was positive overall: the at-
in a through-hole of OptoLock connecter. The tendees were enthusiastic about the informa-
electrical input and output lines from the trans-
tive and interesting presentations and looked
ceiver are brought out to SMA connectors. The forward to future MOST events.
input accepts an LVDS/CML or PECL data In the well-attended exhibition area, vari-
source such as a Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT), ous companies presented their MOST solutions
Pattern Generator, or other signal source. A full-
and applications. Among the exhibitors was
duplex step index POF cable links the optical the MOST Cooperation, with a demonstrator
signal to the second board. showing that MOST supports star, daisy-chain,
The receive side of the transceiver gen-tree, and other topologies, as well as different
erates LVDS/CMS — compatible differential physical layers.
output data signals. The boards are capable Carmakers Audi and BMW demonstrated
of full-duplex operation. In addition to the data
the latest car models that just had been intro-
input and output signals, the transmitter side duced to the market. There were additional
also has a Rex input to control the optical power.
exhibits by Avago Technologies, Dension Audio
For normal operation, this input may be tied to Systems, GADV, GOEPEL electronic, Hama-
ground. The receiver side also provides a Signalmatsu Photonics, ICT Software Engineering,
Detect (SD) output. If not required, this outputK2L, Melexis, Ontorix, Ruetz System Solutions,
may be left as an open circuit. SMSC, TOYODA GOSEI, and Vector Informatik.
Industry partners SAE International (Society of
MOST NEWS Automotive Engineering) and ZVEI (Electrical
and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association), as
High spirits at second MOST Forum well as the media partners Auto Electronics,
The second MOST Forum took place on Elektronik automotive, and ElektronikPraxis,
March 23, 2010, in Frankfurt, Germany. Approxi- supported the MOST Forum and displayed their
mately 150 professionals from the automotive latest publications and work.
electronics industry and academia participated Conference presentations are available
in the conference and visited the accompanying for download in one package, or individually by
exhibition. clicking on the presentation title, at http://www.
The broad international audience was pofto.org/home/node/87. A PDF version of
composed of attendees from Europe as well MOST Special Edition, including the conference
as India, Japan, South Korea, and the United proceedings, is also ready for download.
States.
“Besides the OEM’s perspective and MOST150 broadens in-car multimedia to
discussion of the ongoing MOST150 develop- forward high-definition audio and video into
ment and production launch, the message of vehicles
the MOST Forum concentrated on two aspects: The MOST Cooperation announced sev-
flexible means of connectivity to the MOST net- eral milestones that the latest MOST Technol-
work and the readiness of MOST150 for new ogy has accomplished: MOST150 now offers

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the technology and full audio/video capability match because the delay between sound and
for next-generation automotive infotainment image is absolutely constant. The MOST net-
features and devices such as head units, rear- work itself does not add any notable delay.
seat entertainment, amplifiers, TV tuners, and This also has the advantage that, when
video displays. operating a number of displays within a system,
Based on the technology specification by no special measures are required for synchro-
the organization, through which the Media Ori- nizing the various displays — the MOST network
ented Systems Transport (MOST) automotive already incorporates this synchronization and,
multimedia network is standardized, MOST150 consequently, renders any further synchroniza-
solutions are being tailored to the five major tion protocol unnecessary.
fields of in-car use cases: entertainment, infor- These technology qualifications pave the
mation, mobile connectivity, connected services, way to rear-seat entertainment systems, digital
and driver assistance. sound amplifiers, TV tuners, video displays, and
Entertainment applications, in particular, other entertainment via the MOST network.
have taken a major technology step in data
transmission for high-definition audio and video, RECENT IEEE PAPERS
Blu-ray, gaming, MPEG audio streams, etc.
To support more complex video applica- Following are introductions to papers
tions, MOST150 contains an isochronous trans- recently published in IEEE journals on the topic
port mechanism in addition to higher bandwidth, of plastic optical fibers. For more information,
for a data transfer rate of 150Mbps. please visit http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.
This allows the transmission of audio and
video signals with high bandwidth efficiency and Development of Optical Subassembly for
without any overhead for addressing, collision Plastic Optical Fiber Transceiver in High-
detection/recovery, or broadcast. Speed Applications
Consequently, in a MOST network, mul- Zhang, J., Ramana, P. V., Chandrappan,
tiple high-definition (HD) and single-definition J., Tan, C. W., Chai, Y. Y., Khoo, Y. M., Teo,
(SD) video streams, as well as multichannel W. L., Shing, J. L. H., Gomex, P. O., Wang, T.,
surround sound, with premium quality-of-service Ramkumar, V. M.; Institute of Microelectronics,
can be transmitted at the same time. Isochro- A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and
nous channels are provided to support streams Research), Singapore,
that are not synchronized to the MOST frame IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packag-
rate. ing, Vol. 33, No. 2, May 2010
A typical use is the transport of MPEG A low-cost optical subassembly design
streams over a MOST network, since MPEG for large-core fiber transceiver is presented.
streams generally use variable bit-rates. The complete transceiver module is realized by
This new MOST feature enables cost-ef- assembling the low-cost optical subassembly
fective, extensive video applications, with sup- directly on the transceiver functional printed
port of HD audio and video content from Blu-ray circuit board.
Discs or HDTV. 7dBm optical power output and 6dB ex-
In addition to image and sound quality, tinction ratio are achieved on transmitter by the
the synchronization between image and sound vertical self-alignment and horizontal passive
(Lip Sync) is particularly essential. When adjust- alignment at the transmitter.
ing audio and video to each other, transmission A 190 meter link distance is achieved at
via the synchronous MOST network is a perfect 2.5Gbps and 340 meter link distance is achieved

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at 1.25Gbps for the POF transmitter with grade sensors and aqueous biosensors based on
index plastic optical fiber. A 145 meter link surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)
distance is achieved at 2.5Gbps for the POF and surface plasmon resonance (SPR).
receiver.
Highly Sensitive Bend Sensor Based on
Water Diffusion Into UV Inscripted Long Bragg Grating in Eccentric Core Polymer
Period Grating in Microstructured Polymer Fiber
Fiber Xianfeng Chen1, Chi Zhang1, David J.
Saez-Rodriguez, D., Cruz, J. L., John- Webb , Kyriacos Kalli2, and Gang-Ding Peng3;
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son, I., Webb, D. J., Large, M. C. J., Argyros, A.; 1School of Engineering and Applied Science, As-
Dpto. de Fisica Aplicada y Electromagnetismo, ton University, U.K.; 2Nanophotonics Research
Universidad de Valencia., Burjassot, Spain Laboratory, Cyprus University of Technology,
IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 10, No. 7, Cyprus; 3School of Electrical Engineering, Uni-
July 2010 versity of South Wales, Australia
A long period grating was photoinscribed IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol.
step-by-step in microstructured polymethyl 22, No. 11, June 1, 2010
methacrylate fiber for the first time using a con- Over the last decade, fiber Bragg grat-
tinuous-wave HeCd laser at 325nm, irradiating ings (FBGs) and long-period gratings (LPGs)
the fiber with a power of 1mW. have been widely developed as devices for
The grating had a length of 2cm and a optical sensing and communications. To date,
period of 1mm. A series of cladding mode cou- a number of bend sensors have been realized
pling resonances were observed throughout the using LPG structures to measure curvature.
spectral region studied of 600nm to 1,100nm. Despite high bend sensitivity, LPGs
The resonance wavelengths were shown exhibit several disadvantages, including broad
to be sensitive to the diffusion of water into the resonance that limits measurement accuracy,
fiber. measurement in transmission only, and rela-
tively long device size.
Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibers In contrast, with FBG-based bend sen-
Compared to Conventional POF: Novel Prop- sors, the small size and measurement-in-reflec-
erties and Applications tion make them ideal as point-probe sensors.
Large, M. C. J. Blacket, D. Bunge, C.- To date, all the work on the fiber-grating-based
A.; School of Physics, University of Sydney, bend sensor has concerned silica optical fiber.
Australia In the past few years, FBGs in the poly-
IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 10, No. 7, mer optical fibers (POFs) have begun to attract
July 2010 some interest as they offer the prospect of some
While polymers are not the traditional significant advantages over the silica-based
materials for optical fibers, polymer optical fibers devices for certain applications.
(POF) have a number of advantages over their Compared with silica fiber, the Young’s
glass counterparts for fiber sensors, particularly modulus of polymer fiber is much smaller, and
when coupled range of properties that can be the failure strain of the polymer fiber is much
produced using microstructures. larger. In addition, the design flexibility of the
This paper reviews some of the recent POF facilitates the creation of asymmetric struc-
progress in microstructured polymer fiber sen- ture permitting the curvature measurement with
sors and compares them to conventional POF. the enhanced bend sensitivity.
Sensors considered include mechanical strain This paper reports on a bend sensor

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based on a Bragg grating in an eccentric-core width and performance for Ethernet up link.
polymer optical fiber (ecPOF). This sensor dis- For efficient management, the POF-CP8012S
plays characteristics such as high bend sensi- is equipped with web interface and can be pro-
tivity, wide curvature measurement range, and grammed for basic switch management func-
strong directional dependence. tions such as port speed configuration, VLAN,
Port Mirroring, QoS, bandwidth control, IGMP
COMPANY PROFILE Snooping and Misc Configuration.
- CP8024S Web Manageable 100Mbps
ElectronicBRICKS™ is a new company set Ethernet over POF Switches with
up to wire homes with POF in Italy. For more in- 24 POF ports and 2 RJ45-Cat5/6
formation, please see www.electronicbricks.it. 1000Base-TGbps ports and 2 SFP
1000BaseSX/LX ‘Small Formfactor
POF products Pluggable’ Tranceivers
Web Manageable 100Mbps Ethernet The POF-CP8024S offers 24-Port
over POF Routers 100Base-FX POF Ethernet Switch with 2 Gigabit
- CP8005R-A Web Manageable TP/SFP ports. It supports full-duplex operations
100Mbps Ethernet over POF Router at its fiber-optic interface in the form factor of
with 4 POF ports and 1 RJ45-Cat5 OptoLock interface.
100Base-TX Fast Ethernet port The OptoLock is one kind of POF (plastic
- CP8005R Web Manageable 100Mbps optic fiber) interface that suit for low-cost and
Ethernet over POF Router with 5 POF high-speed data transmission. The OptoLock
ports patch cord can transmit data at S200 (250Mbps)
Web Manageable 100Mbps Ethernet speed for 50 meters.
over POF Switches The two Gigabit TP and SFP ports can
- CP8012S Web Manageable 100Mbps be either 1000Base-T for 10/100/1000Mbps or
Ethernet over POF Switches with 1000Base-SX/LX through SFP (Small Factor
12 POF ports and 2 RJ45-Cat5/6 Pluggable) interface, which provide high band-
1000Base-TGbps ports and 2 SFP width and performance for Ethernet up link.
1000BaseSX/LX ‘Small Formfactor For efficient management, the POF-CP8024S
Pluggable’ Tranceivers is equipped with web interface and can be pro-
The POF-CP8012S offers 12-Port grammed for basic switch management func-
100Base-FX POF Ethernet Switch with 2 Gigabit tions such as port speed configuration, VLAN,
TP/SFP ports. It supports full-duplex operations Port Mirroring, QoS, bandwidth control, IGMP
at its fiber-optic interface in the form factor of Snooping and Misc Configuration.
OptoLock interface. Unmanaged 100Mbps Ethernet over
The OptoLock is one kind of POF (plastic POF Switches
optic fiber) interface that suit for low-cost and - CP8005 100Mbps Ethernet over POF
high-speed data transmission. Switch with 5 POF ports
The OptoLock patch cord that can - CP8008 100Mbps Ethernet over POF
transmit data at S200 (250Mbps) speed for 50 Switch with 8 POF ports
meters. The POF-CP8008 offers 8-Port 100Base-
The two Gigabit TP and SFP ports can FX POF Ethernet Switch. It supports full-duplex
be either 1000Base-T for 10/100/1000Mbps or operations at its fiber-optic interface in the form
1000Base-SX/LX through SFP (Small Factor factor of OptoLock interface.
Pluggable) interface, which provide high band- The OptoLock is one kind of POF (plastic

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optic fiber) interface that suit for low-cost and expand and modify their networks.
high-speed data transmission. The OptoLock - CP8101 100Mbps Ethernet over POF
patch cord that can transmit data at S200 to GOF Converters, aluminum case
(250Mbps) speed for 100 meters. BSPCOM - CP8102 100Mbps Ethernet over
POF-CP8008 switch directs data traffic between POF to SFP Transceivers, aluminum
your devices over an Ethernet network, con- case
necting your home or office equipment to the - CP8103 100Mbps Ethernet over POF
benefits of Plastic Optical Fiber. The compact to RJ45-Cat5 Converters, plastic
and sturdy switch simply plugs into POF cable case
with zero configurations, providing instant con- - CP8103A 100Mbps Ethernet over
nection to Fast Ethernet of 100Mbps over Plastic POF to RJ45-Cat5 Converters, alu-
Optical Fiber. minum case
- CP8009 100Mbps Ethernet over POF - CP8103B 100Mbps Ethernet over
Switch with 8 POF ports and 1 RJ45- POF to RJ45-Cat5 Converters, metal
Cat5 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet case
port 100Mbps Ethernet over POF Multimedia
Unmanaged 100Mbps Ethernet over Controllers
POF Wall Plate Switches - CP8201 100Mbps Ethernet over POF
- CP8301x 100Mbps Ethernet over — USB Network Interface Control-
POF Wall Plates for POF OptoLock ler
based Equipments and for RJ45-Cat5 BSPCOM’s Ethernet POF USB Adapter
based Equipments connects your home and office network to the
SFP ‘Small Formfactor Pluggable’ benefits of Plastic Optical Fiber.
100Mbps Ethernet over POF Transceivers The sleek, compact and self-powered
- CP8401 100Mbps Ethernet over POF USB Adapter plugs into your USB port providing
— SFP ‘Small Formfactor Pluggable’ instant connection to Fast Ethernet of 100Mbps
Transceivers over Plastic Optical Fiber, compatible with a
100Mbps Ethernet over POF Multimedia wide variety of operating systems, including
Converters Windows, Linux and MAC.
BSPCOM’s POF media converter is a Ethernet over Plastic Optical Fiber
high performance and commercial grade Plastic connectivity: Converts your computer into an
Optical Fiber (POF) media converter interfac- EoPOF workstation, connecting you to all the
ing standard 10/100BaseTX to 100BaseFX operating benefits of Plastic Optical Fiber. O/S
Ethernet over Plastic Optical Fiber. BSPCOM compatibility: seamless integration with Win-
Media Transceiver enables standard Ethernet dows, MAC, Linux and more Hih bandwidth:
devices to be interfaced into a Ethernet over powerful performance up to 200Mbps, support-
Plastic Optical Fiber network, or alternatively, ing all current and future Triple Play services.
two BSP-1004 units can be used as a pair to cre- Space saving: replaces the need for a media
ate a robust point-to-point optical link. EoPOF is converter for your PC, saving on desktop clutter.
an ideal solution for new, retrofit and temporary Easy installation: simple plug and play instal-
installations. lation for fast migration to EoPOF. Affordable
The ability to install alongside power and access: places the latest networking technology
route inconspicuously significantly reduces de- at your fingertips.
ployment time and cost, while the do-it-yourself - CP8202 100Mbps Ethernet over POF
simplicity empowers end users to continue to — PCI Network Interface Controller

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POF Cables Optical Fiber is small, flexible, easy installation,
- CP8501 POF Cable 2x2.2mm, 0.5NA, plug and play, which will be greatly cost-saving
1250m spool standard length for installation and after-sales maintenance.
- CD-1000-2 POF Cable 2x2.2mm, Industrial 100Mbps Ethernet over POF
0.3NA, 1250m spool standard Converters and Switches
length - DM-1001-I Industrial 100Mbps Ether-
POF Cutter and Tool net over POF to RJ45-Cat5 Convert-
- CP8601 POF Cutter for handling POF ers with 1 POF port
Cable 2x2.2mm - DM-1002-I Industrial 100Mbps Ether-
POF OptoLock@ Feed-Thru net over POF to RJ45-Cat5 Switches
- ELII-2.20 POF OptoLock@ 2x2.2mm with 2 POF ports
Feed-Thru Connector - DM-1004-I Industrial 100Mbps Eth-
POF Home Networking KIT ernet over POF Switches with 4 POF
- CP8701 POF Home Networking ports
— Do It Yourself KIT - DM-1008-I Industrial 100Mbps Eth-
100Mbps Ethernet over POF IP Network ernet over POF Switches with 8 POF
Camera ports
- CP4001 POF 100Mbps Ethernet over - ETH-Brick POF Industrial 100Mbps
POF — IP Network Camera Ethernet over POF Switches with 3
A new generation Network Camera with RJ45-Cat5 ports and 2 POF ports
high integrated Dual Core H.264 & MPEG-4
on-chips, independent Triple Stream and ad- FTTx POF products and solutions for ‘the
vanced technique. It is comprised of intelligent last hundred meters’
network transmitting stream of H.264, 3GPP Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) realizes the
mobile phone viewing stream of MPEG-4 and simultaneous transmission of Data, VoIP and
local recording stream of H.264. To co-work IPTV signal over a single optical fiber to the
with our build-in WWW HTTP server, BSPCOM home. With recent widespread use of the In-
have enhanced unique technologies, including ternet at home the traditional network commu-
DDNS+, SECU+, UPNP+ and powerful ‘Engine’, nication lines are gradually becoming unable
and users can easily operate with CP4001. We to deliver the increasing amount of data, such
promise that you will view ‘Anytime, anywhere’ as audio data, image data, and movie data, via
via mobile phone and IE browser. We also thor- the Internet. In order to satisfy these demands,
oughly solve the problems of installation and FTTH, in which optical fibers are provided to
difficulty in use. the home, and the like, are being made avail-
In addition, CP4001 provides high qual- able widely to consumers. FTTH delivers faster
ity video and audio streaming as well as smart broadband access compared to existing access
management platform, which leads you into a technologies, including network connections
perfect, safety and reliable video life. Plastic based on phone lines (xDSL) or coaxial cable.
Optical Fiber (POF) IPCAM has one of the big- Optical fiber has become the medium
gest advantages for its completely immune to of choice for sending digital signals between
electromagnetic interference (EMI) and noise, the central office and the customers remote
comparing to LAN, WIFI and POE IPCAM. terminals. Optical fibers form some of the main
Another point relies on its no radiation during lines through which telecommunications data
the signal launch and a lot of wireless network is connected all over the world. An optical fiber
are not available at present. In addition, Plastic typically includes a core region surrounded

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concentrically by a cladding. The optical fiber is usually non-collimated. POF optical
bidirectional communication is achieved by sources are thus intrinsically eye-safe
using a single optical fiber through which two and easy to troubleshoot, as the sig-
types of light signals with different wavelengths nal can be seen by the naked eye.
are propagated bidirectionally has become in- For all these reasons, POF is potentially
creasingly common in optical communication very interesting in several applications (indus-
applications such as FTTH. trial automation, automotive, home networking)
In FTTH, optical signal capabilities are where it shows key advantages to the more
routed from a central office or other distributiontraditional copper cabling:
location to a plurality of homes in that particular - Complete immunity to electromag-
location via optical fibers and one or more opti- netic interference (EMI);
cal connectors and/or other optical connection - Being an electrical insulator (like
devices. GOF), POF can be laid down in power
A possible solution for integration of Eth- ducts. This apparently minor issue
ernet, telecommunication and IPTV Networks is seen as a key element by several
in “the last hundred meters” may be use glass European telcos for in-house instal-
optical fiber networking to reach the building lation in brown-field areas.
and then use plastic optical fiber to reach the - Lower weight (a fundamental issue in
home equipment. the automotive sector).
These native properties have to be bal-
Home networking using Ethernet over POF anced by some drawbacks: PMMA exhibits a
Polymer optical fibers (POF) based on strong attenuation, minimum for visible light
polymethyl-methacrilate (PMMA) with step-in- (0,15dB/m to 0,20dB/m at 650nm, to be com-
dex 1mm core diameter have gained interest pared to 0,25dB/km at 1,550nm for silica single-
in recent years for their interesting properties mode fiber), which limits the reach of the links
compared to the better-known glass optical to about hundred meters without bends. Be-
fibers (GOF). sides, as a next step in the evolution of access
The main advantages of POF when com- networks, it is foreseen that higher-bandwidth
pared to GOF are: services will be delivered, either with active
- POF large core diameter (1mm) al- network elements built closer to the end user
lows do-it-yourself installation and (e.g., VDSL2 or point-to-point FTTH technol-
termination with common cutter and ogy), or at the opposite end with active elements
electrician-like low cost tools; more distant from the end user (e.g. GPON
- PMMA material is a very inexpensive FTTH technology). The target for bandwidth
material; delivered in home could be up to 1Gbps in the
- POF high diameter and numerical ap- case of FTTH or up to 120Mbps downstream
erture makes bending loss sensitivity and up to 50Mbps upstream in case of VDSL2
much lower than silica fiber (GOF); technology.
- POF mechanical resilience and elas- The home network must not represent
ticity makes it possible to step on it a bottleneck for the expected evolution for ser-
and even tie it. Dust and water harm vices such as the introduction of high-definition
POF to a much smaller extent than IPTV, multiroom/multivision configuration, using
GOF; different channels seen in different rooms with
- The optical sources for POF are in the up to three set-top boxes (STBs) and high-qual-
visible range, and the optical launch ity video communication via the TV set.

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More generally, with the “connected The PMMA POF solution is very attrac-
home,” several devices will be connected to- tive to do a point-to-point architecture in an
gether: the home network can be used, for ex- already constructed house, because the instal-
ample, to share multimedia contents not neces- lation of the cable could be performed by the
sarily delivered in real time by access network, user himself. Several installation configurations
but with the paradigm of “download and play,” can be considered:
this content can be stored in a device inside the - The cable can be installed in existing
house and used afterwards. ducts (empty or already used by a
In addition, this residential network must copper/electrical cable), or
be easy, fast and cheap to deploy. - Installed along the wall or plinths by
The ETSI TS document of January 2010 stapling or gluing.
specifies the POF cabling system 100Mbps In the case of a visible home cabling, the
and 1Gbps for interoperability among different constraints applied on the cable could be stricter
suppliers. (several corners and doors).
The system comprises the active optical Ultimately POF transceivers will be inte-
elements, the cables, connectors, and wall plugs. grated in the user equipment, thus reducing the
A future step could be to achieve integration of number of power supplies and hence the overall
POF interfaces into end-user equipment. electrical consumption.
Several suppliers currently offer PMMA An alternative to this would be to power
POF media converter solutions at 100Mbps. up the media converter by means of a USB
With such performance, PMMA fiber may be interface or Power over Ethernet (PoE) on the
used in the home to interconnect all devices RJ45 interface.
usually communicating through Fast Ethernet Energy-efficiency targets are set out in
interfaces — for example, the link between the the EU Code of Conduct on Energy Consump-
home gateway and the STB. tion of Broad Band Equipment.

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