Sckipio is introducing G.fast technology to help telcos address challenges of increasing broadband demand. G.fast allows speeds up to 1 Gbps over existing telephone wires within 250 meters of distribution points, addressing issues with VDSL related to distance from central offices. This provides higher speeds at a lower cost than fiber to the home. G.fast deployment is expected to begin in late 2014 following standards finalization and interoperability testing in early 2015.
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Sckipio broadband vision G.fast Presentation oct 2014 by mileend gadkari
1. G.FAST
Ultra Broadband for the Masses
Mileend Gadkari
VP Business Development
mileend@sckipio.com
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2. OVERVIEW
• Introduction to Sckipio
• The Telco Challenge
•How G.fast Helps
•Q&A
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3. SCKIPIO OVERVIEW
• First company to focus solely on G.fast modems
• Founded Jan 2012
• $10 million funding to date (Series A)
• Investors: Genesis, Gemini, Amiti, Aviv
• 30+ people with over
– 200 years in combined telcom experience
– 50 million devices installed
– Worked with over 80 telcos globally
• Contributed over 20% of contributions to G.fast in ITU
• Member of Celtic, BBF and ITU
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9. NIELSEN’S LAW
NIELSEN’S LAW OF
INTERNET
BANDWIDTH
Summary: Users'
bandwidth grows by
50% per year (10%
less than Moore's Law).
10yr CAGR = 57x
The new law fits data
from 1983 to 2014.
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10. GOVERNMENTS
PUSHING 2020
INITIATIVES
BENEFITS OF HIGH-SPEED BROADBAND FOR
AUSTRALIAN HOUSEHOLDS
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11. The Apps of the Future
Basic Internet (social, shopping, search, news, etc)
Real time 2-way UltraHD video chat
(social, telemedicine, distance learning)
Cloud services (back-up, Internet of Things, UGC, etc.)
OTT Video (Netflix, 4K YouTube, etc.)
4K UltraHD
1Gbps
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15. FREQUENCY DRIVES SPEED
30A
VDSL
Bandwidth
17A
What’s needed to get
to fast enough speeds
Frequency
200Mbps
100Mbps
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16. DSLAMS ARE TOO FAR
800-1,000 meters away
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Source: Ericsson 2009
17. MOVING DSLAM COSTLY
TOO EXPENSIVE
•POWER ISSUES
•RIGHT OF WAY
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Source: Ericsson 2009
18. INFLEXIBLE UP/DOWNSTREAM
70%
VDSL RATES
ARE FIXED
DUE TO FDD
30%
Downstream Upstream
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19. CROSS TALK AT HIGH FREQUENCIES
•Share binders – especially in MDU
•High frequencies make cross talk much worse
•Need vectoring
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21. VDSL TRAINING ISSUES
•Poor OLR
•Slow retraining – especially when vectoring
•Can lose critical services like VoIP
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22. POOR CHOICE
• Short-lived and too limited
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23. POOR CHOICES
• Short-lived and too limited
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24. PROBLEM OF LAST 200 METERS
• Trenching on premises
• Installation scheduling
• Right of way issues
• Roll-out delays due to
capacity of installers
• Very expensive overall
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25. FTTH CONSIDERED COSTLY HASSLE
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Source: Broadband Communities 2012
26. TNO STUDY NETHERLANDS
799 Euros
100%
268 Euros
33%
FULL FTTH HYBRID FIBER/ G.FAST
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27. POOR CHOICES
• Short-lived and too limited • Too expensive with poor ROI
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28. SOLUTION
ITU AND BROADBAND FORUM
TO THE RESCUE
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29. ITU CREATES G.FAST
G.fast
The performance of fiber at
the installation price of ADSL
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31. USES REVERSE POWER
VDSL
800-1,000 meters
30-80Mbps
G.Fast
<250 meters
1Gbps
REVERSE
POWER
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32. REVERSE POWERING
• Leverages existing PoE standards
– ETSI TM6 for reverse power feed aspects
•Compatible with POTS
– Ringing voltage and G.fast reverse power
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33. DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS
•MDU
•Single Family
•Cellular backhaul
•Business
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34. INTERNET MATTERS IN MDU
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Source: Broadband Communities 2014
38. G.FAST BASICS
•1Gbps over copper wiring
• 2-106MHz of bandwidth
•Vectoring standard
• 250 meters or closer via distribution point
• Time division instead of frequency division
•Reverse powered
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39. G.FAST IS MORE THAN SPEED
• Significantly lower cost versus FTTH
• Customer self-install
• Faster roll-out (no customer visit coordination)
• Flexible use-cases (wireless & business applications)
• Flexible asymmetry ratio (up:down ratio)
• Coexistent with legacy xDSL
• Much more robust, fiber level quality over copper
• Better power management: Lower power, remote power feeding
• Optimized performance with vectoring
• Path to double performance (up to 200Mhz)
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40. G.FAST MAKES BUSINESS SENSE
Benefits of G.Fast
• G.fast cost saving
>$650/customer*
• Zero touch
maintenance
• Faster ROI &
customer
satisfaction
• G.fast cost saving
>$650/customer*
• Zero touch
maintenance
• Faster ROI &
customer
satisfaction
G.Fast Eliminates or Reduces
• Trenching time & labor costs
• Stranded Capital: ONT/CPE
• Powering equipment
• In-home installs
• Customer scheduling
• MDU legal & rewiring issues
• Large PON splitters
• Deployment delays
• Take rate issues
* Recent analysis by TNO shows G.Fast is 1/3 cost of FTTH
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41. IMPROVED MANAGEMENT
DPU Management using the Persistent
Management (PMA) Agent Architecture
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42. ROLE OF PMA
•DPU power down – driven by CPE
•Over the top provisioning feasible
NOTE: WT-301 and WT-318 addressed at the BBF
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43. STATUS OF G.FAST
•G.9700/G.9701 Recommendations consented Q4 2013
• 2,500 comments resolved already – released v2
•Goal resolve all remaining comments Q4 2014
•CELTIC expects field testing in Q4 2014
•BBF expects interop testing events in Jan 2015
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44. How does the world win?
•A more prosperous world
•A healthier world
•A better educated world
•A smarter, more responsive world
•A more fun and enjoyable world
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45. THE VISION ISN’T
BROADBAND
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I don’t want to give a big plug on Sckipio and we aren’t going to talk about any products, but I thought it might be helpful to know who we are. Sckipio is an Israeli-based semiconductor company that is solely focusing on G.fast and has been since the beginning. The team has a huge experience in home networking and broadband access and many of the key guys were some of the original developers of ADSL, VDSL, WiMax, LTE and every variant of wired and wireless home networking. All of our experience has been working with telcos and we fully understand both the topology and applications running across these networks. Our engineers were some of the biggest contributors to the G.fast standard and we are also the chip company picked by the 4th generation broadband consortium group in Europe called Celtic to handle all the field trials for true G.fast. It is fair to say we are the leading experts in G.fast
Telcos face a lot of challenges today. What I’d like to do is walk you through those challenges and then show you where G.fast comes in and can really be a help.
Telcos are losing share to cable companies and it is starting to hurt.
In this 2014 MDU Study, they found that speed is a critical component to customer dissatisfaction with DSL. Notice – the reliability is essentially the same across providers but download and upload speeds see a 50% higher satisfaction with Cable on those attributes.
The speed different between cable and telcos will increase if telcos don’t do something about it.
There demands for Broadband are obvious and enormous. Overall web traffic will be over 2 Zetabytes per year and the number of online devices is growing to over 25B in 2020.
Jacob Nielsen has well predicted that we will continue to see broadband demand grow at 50% a year. What that means is in 2025, we will expect to see the AVERAGE US consumer will be using 500 Mbps – high end users will be around double that – near a gig.
We know this is important because our governments are pushing major initiatives because they see the role of broadband to our every day lives.
There are many reasons why we need 1Gbps internet speeds.
The key point – Broadband is now a central part of our daily life.
If you’re a telco, there haven’t been many good options.
A choice between a hard rock and a pile.
You need more bandwidth and that requires a higher frequency.
But your DSLAMs are too far away in most cases.
Moving the DSLAMS closer is financially impractical and doesn’t buy any performance improvements.
Plus, the ratio between upstream and downstream is fixed and consumers want more upstream.
As you move to higher frequencies, there is naturally more cross talk. Therefore, you must vector.
One of the problems is cross DSLAM interference. In the real world, it isn’t uncommon for binders to be sourced from multiple DSLAMs. Historically, that wasn’t an issue. But with vectoring, it is. Because it’s really hard and expensive to handle vectoring across DSLAMs for a single binder.
VDSL retrains very slow and it is highly susceptible to disturbances. That creates problems for most users. Yet, when you combine it with vectoring, the problem gets much worse. With vectoring, it can take a very long time to re-synchronize all the pieces together.
`To summarize. VDSL won’t get telcos where they need to go.
`So, they looked at fiber.
Fiber is a great technology for greenfield applications, but is too expensive, slow to install and frustrating for all involved.
Many consumers are reluctant to buy fiber because of the many hassles involved.
Fiber is way more expensive, too. In comparison to G.fast, fiber is expected to cost 3x more than G.fast.
`Fiber’s great to get close to the home, but too expensive and impractical to go all the way.
That’s why the ITU and the Broadband Forum came together to solve this problem.
They rightfully wanted the best of both worlds – the performance of fiber with the simplicity of ADSL - - which is customer self installable technology.
The basic idea is the fiber is moved closer to the home to the distribution point – typically within 250 meters.
The box is powered by the subscriber’s CPE device and no power needs to be installed at the DP itself. This saves tons of money and is part of the Broadband Forum’s FTTdp architecture.
The good news is it leverages pre-existing standards.
So, where can it be used?
MDU is a great place. On average, at least 30% of all consumers live in MDU environments and they are mostly underserved today. In fact, the top issue that building owners think shoppers want is fast broadband.
The basic idea is the traffic flows over optical to a DPU device (often in the basement) and then run through the building using existing twisted pair wiring to each residence.
In single family homes, the distribution box can be placed outdoors on a pedestal, in the sidewalk, or on a pole. The boxes are simply weatherproofed for outdoor use.
Overall there are many ways for it to work. By splitting fiber 1:2 along the street, it is very easy for telcos to get close to residents affordably.
So what are the basics of G.fast? High speed, high throughput with vectoring, and time division duplexing – a very critical piece. Also, reverse power makes it feasible and affordable to deploy.
There are many other benefits too including easy installation, support for cellular backhaul, flexibility for consumers and many other things. Plus, G.fast has room to grow over time to even higher performance.
G.Fast makes great business sense for telcos. It saves tons of provisioning costs, provides “zero touch” maintenance and helps the telcos more affordably deploy ultra broadband.
G.Fast also allows for great management capabilities that will help improve the cost and complexity of managing this large network.
This capability is being documented by the Broadband Forum and will become an important part of domain 2.0 over time.
G.Fast is moving quickly. The standard was consented last year and already the comments have been addressed and a final standard is around the corner. In addition, many exciting things are happening regarding field testing for G.fast with Celtic – a European consortium of leading telcos like Telefonica, British Telecom, France Telecom, and others.
Let me conclude by saying that G.fast is going to deliver the lowest cost per megabit delivered. That means more of the world can get ultra broadband. This will help new services like telemedicine, distance learning, the Internet of Things, Virtual worlds, ultra high definition, real-time video chat and ultra high definition television services. All together will make the world a smarter, safer, healthier and better planet.
We shouldn’t be limited to broadband. Broadband isn’t the vision.
Ultra broadband is.
At Sckipio, we are 100% focused on changing the lives of billions of people and we hope you will join us it making it a better world.