Passive Optical Metro Network Based on NG-PON2 System to Support Cloud Edges

The traffic of the future metro network will dynamically change not only in volume but also in destination to support the application of virtualization technology to network edge equipment such as cloud edges to achieve cost-effectiveness. Therefore, the future metro network will have to accommodate traffic cost-effectively, even though both the traffic volume and the traffic destination will change dynamically. To handle to this trend, in this paper, we propose a future metro network architecture based on Next-Generation Passive Optical Network Stage 2 systems that offers cost-effectiveness while supporting virtual machine migration of cloud edges. The basic idea of the proposed method is sharing a burst-mode receiver between the continuous-mode transmitters and burst-mode transmitters. In this paper, we show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method with experiments on prototype systems, and simulations for the preliminary evaluation of network capital expenditure.