Johannesburg, 12 Oct 2009
The new IEEE standard on 10Gb/s EPON will open up the market for IP video, says 3Com's David Law, chair of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Standards Working Group.
The IEEE-SA Standards Board has voted to approve 10Gb/s Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) as an IEEE standard. The IEEE Std 802.3av 10Gb/s Ethernet Passive Optical Network standard will accelerate the adoption of IP video - one of the most exciting new applications running on IP-based networks, by boosting Ethernet PON capacity from 1Gb/s to 10Gb/s.
This will radically enhance the delivery of advanced video services, gigabit-capable home networks, backhaul for fourth generation mobile communication networks and high-bandwidth connections to multi-tenant and multi-dwelling residential units.
Analogue systems can no longer meet the new requirements of monitoring hundreds of locations across cities, storing the data for extended periods, and being able to apply intelligent video image searches to detect suspicious activity or do forensic analysis.
Today's solutions for video surveillance over IP offer significant performance, cost and functionality improvements over older analogue CATV systems, and these IP video solutions are now taking centre-stage due to the current global security climate. Multi-terabyte storage and bandwidth are no longer cost-prohibitive, and this is driving the large-scale deployment of IP surveillance networks.
“IEEE Std 802.3ah 1Gb/s EPON (1G-EPON) systems have already been deployed to more than 30 million subscribers worldwide and support diverse services, including IPTV, VOIP and cellular backhaul,” says Law.
Locations in China are already using low-cost H3C Ethernet Passive Optical Networks to monitor long stretches of highway in order to keep the roads safer for motorists. The monitoring is integrated into the EPON IP-based network and H3C storage systems and surveillance applications. With added features like pan-tilt-zoom cameras and motion sensors, and simple innovations like making one camera monitor multiple locations by aiming at, say, three places at regular intervals, the cost of security surveillance can be curtailed.
Initial deployments of 10G-EPON equipment are expected in 2010.
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