In the past few years, the existing telecommunication networks are challenged to support the
growing number of internet-reliant devices (such as smartphones and other smart devices) …

As the ink is drying on 5G New Radio standards, the industry is now setting its sight on
specifying the transport network layer to support 5G deployments. Among the contending …

Abstract Passive Optical Networks (PONs) are an efficient high-performance optical access
solution that is able to provide huge bandwidth in a resourceful way through the …

Passive optical networks (PONs) facilitate small-cell deployments. Back-and midhaul over
PON is being deployed today. As opposed to point-to-point optics, PON extends the …

The high capacity of future 5G wireless networks must be supported by equivalent high-
capacity fixed networks for backhaul and fronthaul (x-haul) transport. Especially the trend …

We describe the requirements for future high-speed PON systems to allow for coping with
5G RAN use cases and explain the actions at the level of standardization. Further, we will …

Next-generation PONs are being considered as an optical transport solution for 6G mobile
networks. Nonetheless, to support a heterogeneity of immersive services, challenges in …

Efficient Transport of eCPRI Fronthaul over PON Page 1 Efficient Transport of eCPRI
Fronthaul over PON Jochen Maes(1), Sarvesh Bidkar(2), Michael Straub(2), Thomas Pfeiffer(2) …

With the advancement of radio access networks, more and more mobile data content needs
to be transported by optical networks. Mobile fronthaul is an important network segment that …

Passive optical network (PON) technology offers an attractive cost-efficient alternative to
support 5G and Beyond 5G mobile network fronthauling (MFH). However, MFH for such …