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The Next Generation Multimode Fiber: Wide Band MMF (WBMMF)
Paul Kolesar
Engineering Fellow
Chair TIA TR-42.11
CommScopeAugust 20, 2015
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Outline
• Application drivers
• Multiplexing technology overview
• Trends in time division multiplexing
• Trends in space division multiplexing (a.k.a. parallel fibers)
• Trends in short-wavelength division multiplexing
• Benefits of SWDM and WBMMF
• Cabling evolution roadmap examples
• Bandwidth-wavelength relationships
• Wavelength usage refinement
• Bandwidth and transmission performance data
• OFC 2015 demo
• Standardization
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Applications Drivers
• continues to evolve– Existing:
10M, 100M, 1G, 10G40G, 100G
– Developing:2.5G, 5G, 25G, 400G
– Near future interest:50G, 200G
– On and over the horizon:800G, 1.6T
• and thrive– due to unrelenting
demand for services needing faster data rates:video streaming, on-line gaming, smart phone apps, music streaming, photo messaging, …
Ethernet Roadmap 2015 – courtesy of Ethernet Alliance
Ethernet
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Multiplexing Technology Overview
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Trends in TDM
• Higher data rates typically defined using– Parallel electrical sub-rate, sometimes serialized via SERDES (TDM
mux/demux) for delivery over fiber
– Serialize the electrical rate as technology permits
– Example: 10G has 4-lane (quarter rate)and serial electrical rates defined
• Today’s datacom max serial rates– Ethernet = ~25 Gb/s
– Fibre Channel = ~28 Gb/s
• Emerging datacom max serial rates – Ethernet = ~50 Gb/s
– Fibre Channel = ~56 Gb/s
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Trends in SDM
• Data rates above 28Gb/s (32GFC) employ parallel fibers– 40GBASE-SR4
– 100GBASE-SR10 100GBASE-SR4
– 128GFC (will be like 100G-SR4)
– 400GBASE-SR16
• Transmission via parallel fibers has pragmatic limits– 100GBASE-SR4 more practical than -SR10
– Diminished appeal above -SR16
– A better approach is needed to keep MMF solutions optimized
– Enter SWDM
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Trends in Short-Wave WDM (SWDM)
• Example - Cisco’s 40G-SR-BD– 40G transmission on one pair of MMF
– Uses two wavelengths in opposite directions per fiber, each at 20G
– Wavelength discrimination supports bi-directional operation
– Nominal wavelengths of 850 nm and 900 nm
– Four wavelengthsillustrated
WDM also supports uni-directional transmission per fiber
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Mu’xed Multiplexing
• Example – TDM + WDM– Can also replicate over parallel fibers to combine TDM + WDM + SDM
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Benefits of SWDM & WBMMF
• Wavelengths used to reduce number of fibers– Good trend for improving MMF utility
– SWDM utility is more limited on OM3 or OM4 at high lane rates
• Deliver sufficient bandwidth over wavelength spectrum – to support > 100G / fiber to at least 100 m
Goals and benefits:
retain legacy application support of OM4
increase capacity to > 100G per fiber
reduce parallel fiber count by factor of 4
enable Ethernet:
40G-SR, 100G-SR, 400G-SR4
enable Fibre Channel:
128GFC-SWDM4, 256GFC-SWDM4
extend MMF utility as universal medium
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Application Evolution Map –Ethernet Examples
parallel fiber transmission
WDM transmission
WDM + parallel transmission
Legend
Data Rate 10G
ParallelTX RX
25G
ParallelTX RX
10G, 25G
WDM &
ParallelTX RX
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40G
100G
400G
SWDM enablingfactor of 4 fiber count
reduction
Imagine running 10G, 40G and 100G
over the same WBMMF cable plant using duplex LC connections *
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*Parallel fibers remain essential to support break-out functionality
FC Rate 32GFC
ParallelTX RX
64GFC
ParallelTX RX
32G, 64G
WDMTX RX
128GFC
256GFC
N/A
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Application Evolution Map –Fibre Channel Examples
Legend
SWDM enablingfactor of 4 fiber count
reduction
Imagine running 32G, 64G, 128G and 256G
over the same WBMMF cable plant using duplex LC connections *
parallel fiber transmission
WDM transmission
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*Parallel fibers remain essential to support break-out functionality
WBMMF Specification Framework
• Wavelength range is central to WBMMF specification– although WBMMF standard will not specifically set WDM plan
• What is clear from the outset:– Legacy application support dictates inclusion of 850 nm wavelength
– Move towards longer wavelengths to gain improvements from lower chromatic dispersion, lower attenuation, faster VCSELs
– Four wavelength bands are ideal complement to four-lane parallel
• Transceiver vendors say low-cost WDM needs ≥ 30 nm pitch– Accommodates low-cost manufacturing tolerances, temperature variation,
spectral width, low-complexity filters
• The following analysis puts this all together– to determine shortest wavelength and wavelength range
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Worst-case OM4 total bandwidth analysis
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Total Bandwidth
Bandwidth-Wavelength Relationships
Basic Requirements & Indications
Must retain legacy 850 nm application
support.
Wavelengths > 850 nm benefit from
increasing chromatic bandwidth and
improving VCSEL capability.
Must support at least 4 wavelengths.
Low-cost WDM needs ~30 nm spacing.
Resulting target wavelength region:
~840 nm to ~950 nm
Bandwidth improvement is needed to
raise total bandwidth to that at ~840 nm
over target wavelength region.
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840 850 860 870 880 890 900 910 920 930 940 950 960
λ1
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λ3
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guard guard guardpass pass pass pass
WavelengthRefinement
• Calculate pass-band & guard-band allocations– Support 4 WDM operating wavelengths
• Set λL1 (longest wavelength of first pass-band) = 860 nm, the legacy upper limit for best performance and to allow λ1 VCSEL use for legacy applications
• move towards longer wavelengths for other bands
– Account for spectral width & temperature shift in pass-band calculation• λw allowance
0.6 nm rms (widest in recent standards)
• VCSEL temperature coefficient and temperature range 0.065 nm/⁰C coefficient account for 100 ⁰C variation
(supports -5 to 85 ⁰C ambient temperature range)
– Apply calculations as a function of wavelength• VCSEL λc manufacturing tolerance allowance
Percentage of nominal wavelength Trades-off with temp. coefficient, temp. range and spectral width
to fit within pass-band
• Filter pass-bands and guard-bands scaled with wavelength As requested by transceiver makers, provide ≥ 30 nm spacing
temp.
λw
pass-band allocations
λc
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Results
• Highlights– Spectrum used equitably for all bands due to wavelength scaling– Nominal wavelengths shifted up slightly from basic concepts– Pitch between all nominal wavelengths > 30 nm– Longest wavelength = 953.0 nm– Shortest wavelength = 846.0 nm 107 nm range
840 850 860 870 880 890 900 910 920 930 940 950 960
Possible 4 λ Plan
λ1
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λ3
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guard guard guardpass pass pass pass
name nominal VCSEL range pass-band guard-band
λ1 853.0 846.0 - 860.0 14.0
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λ2 883.4 876.2 - 890.5 14.3
16.5
λ3 914.3 907.0 - 921.5 14.5
16.8
λ4 945.7 938.3 - 953.0 14.7
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Samples of Standard OM4 and Wide-Band MMFs
Fiber and measurements courtesy of OFS
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Transmission Test Configuration
BERT
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RX
limiting amp
VCSELs:
λ A, λB, …
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Transmission Performance at 100 m
* 980nm VCSELs readily available for transmission tests and extract near-worst-case bandwidth effects.
Compare the left plot at 850 nm to the right plot at 980 nm, noting their different x-axis scales. Notice how the lines for the two OM4 fibers move significantly up and to the right, indicating that transmission impairments have substantially increased at 980 nm for OM4. But the two WBMMFs plotted in red remain comparatively similar at 980 nm to their 850 nm performance showing their ability to well support a very useful range of wavelengths.
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Demo at OFC 2015
• 4λ, each at 25.78 Gb/s– Finisar SWDM concept transceiver (4 SFPs mu’xed together)– OFS fiber meeting CommScope WBMMF specification– > 100 Gb/s over single-fiber channel– 225 m reach (50 m + 75 m + 100 m spools) – Error-free without FEC assistance– Enabling FEC would have permitted longer reach
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WBMMF Standardization
• Initial presentations to TIA TR-42 October 2014
– Coauthored and supported by fiber, transceiver and system companies
• TIA TR-42 approved project
– October 2014, without dissent
– International participation from IEC 86A members
– Monthly meetings with several contributors, > 40 contributions
– First ballot authorized June 2015
– TIA-492AAAE anticipated 2016
• For Fibre Channel & Ethernet
– 128GFC Gen 2, 256GFC, …
– 100GE Gen 3, 200GE Gen 1, 400GE Gen 2, …
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Summary• The industry is moving to utilize SWDM
– Transceivers, fibers, cabling
• WBMMF will optimize the reach of SWDM solutions– While retaining support for 850 nm legacy applications at OM4 reaches
• Applications provide opportunities to seed these technologies– Ethernet and Fibre Channel
• SWDM & WB technologies extend the utility of MMF– Continuing legacy of delivering lowest-cost optical solutions
over the universal data-comm transmission medium that is MMF
Thank You
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Q&A
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commercially. Equivalent product(s) may be used if they can be shown to lead to the same results.
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