About 2/3 of the German households have access to broadband internet. Most of them have access to ADSL connections with a capacity of only a few Mbit/s. In the very next years VDSL and fiber optic links will offer bandwidths of 100 Mbit/s or even more.
Today often wireless technologies like W-LAN or PLC provide most of the (so far low-speed) inhouse connections in the customer’s premises. Polymer Optical Fibers (POF) can be installed by laymen and will allow for fast, reliable and electromagnetic interference-free point-to-point connections. Ethernet media converters with more than 100 Mbit/s and even more than 120 m link length are available even now.
In these times the research on POF systems with 1 Gbit/s is ongoing. To achieve wide acceptance, new standards need to be developed and lots of technical challenges need to be solved.
This working group aims to fill the gap in POF standardization. It is the objective of the team to design a robust and easy-to-install transmission system for datarates of 1 Gbit/s over up to 50 m transmission distance.
This range will be sufficient for appartments and most of the multidwelling units.