GreenTouch to reduce energy consumption in FTTH

GreenTouch, the global consortium to improve the energy efficiency of ICT networks is all set to offer Bit-Interleaved Passive Optical Network (Bi-PON) technology, the technology to reduce energy consumption in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks. When deployed, it would enable a power reduction of 30 times over current technologies while improving performance and reducing cost.

Bi-PON represents the next major leap in passive optical network (PON) technologies. It is expected to be a necessity as electronic processing will increase with future 40GPON systems.

Current optical network units in access discard 99 percent of all processed data, without ever being used, whereas Bi-PON is built around a new protocol that significantly simplifies the electronic circuitry by using a selective data processing technique that dramatically reduces this energy consumption.

GreenTouch has developed and demonstrated two technologies - Bi-PON and Large-Scale Antenna System to improve energy efficiency by more than a factor of 25. Both the Large-Scale Antenna System and Bi-PON would be demonstrated at TIA 2012 which will be held on June 5-7, 2012 in Dallas, Texas, in the Green ICT Pavilion.