Abstract:
Optical fiber plays a significant part in the revolution of communication technologies as
one of the most influential access technologies. Passive Optical Network (PON) is a point
to multipoint (P2MP) network where an optical line terminal (OLT) at the service provider
distributes services to many customers per shared fiber line. Gigabit passive optical
network (GPON) is one of the Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) PON. This Thesis
evaluated the comparison between three different PONs which are CO-OFDM, WDM CO-OFDM, and GPON without OFDM. By taking different values of transmitted power, fiber
cable length, and operating wavelengths with multiple scenarios. The system was analyzed
depending on values of Bit Error Rate, Q factor, Optical Received power, Electrical
Received power, and eye diagram from simulation results when using OptiSystem
software. We also evaluated the model of the system, design algorithms, and performance
analysis of the network by calculating the power budget and rise time budget analysis of
the network. After analyzing and comparing three different GPONs we get an achievement
which is that GPON without OFDM is the best one to apply University of Hargeisa. The
University consists of 14 different blocks which have different distances. For each block,
we used Free Space Optics (FSO) to transmit data from the transmitter and receiver. In the
thesis, we used three different weather conditions according to the FSO which are Clear,
Haze, and Rainy. The parameters we used in the thesis are bitrate 10Gbps, transmitted
power 0-16dB, and receiver sensitivity which is -35dBm. Finally, we simulated the 14
different blocks with three different weather conditions and we achieved in the results and
discussion that the FSO Network in the University of Hargeisa has suitable to deploy and
implement in the University.
Keywords: Bit error rate, Eye Diagram, Optical Line Terminal, Optical Network Unit,
Passive Optical Network, Q factor.