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BEGINNING OF

GPONINPTCL TECH-BUSINESS JUNCTION

By Muhammad Idrees (Assistant Manager, Quality Assurance)

PTCL started the FTTH journey a few years back, with the intent and be performed. The lab also serves as a platform for
aim to provide reliable GPON services to customers. The challenges practical demonstration of an end-to-end FTTH
faced in the pilot project were mostly related to deployment and network building blocks and on the
installation quality, which was primarily because of the lack
of standardisation, in-house capabilities, smart inventory job trainings for field staff. Here
management, and auto provisioning systems/tools, etc. FTTH ecosystem can practically
Hence, a considerable improvement was required in be emulated in a life
planning, deployment, and operations to cater to the cycle approach against
emerging needs of the telecom market.
pre as well as post
Vigilant, as a result of the lesson learnt through deployment scenarios.
earlier GPON pilots, and in line with management’s Operational Staff can
vision, QA’s GPON Lab was built keeping in be facilitated with hands-
mind its multiple functions, i.e. not only for on drill regarding physical
conformance and qualification testing
of GPON CPEs (Optical Network installation check points,
Terminals ONTs), but also for the splicing, configurations, link
capacity building of our budget management and operation,
field staff in real world
FTTH environment. administration, maintenance and
QA’s FTTH Lab is provisioning (OAM&P) activities, and
offering the Testing yielding a better end user Quality of
services for GPON Experience (QoE).
Te c h n o l o g y
per G.984x QA, which is also focused on
standards.
standardisation, developed guidelines
The Lab is and checklists in order to improve
equipped network deployment, monitoring, and
with an maintenance activities. Link budget
end-to- and physical checks covering all ODN
end optical
distribution components are performed according
network (ODN), to well-defined procedures and guidelines.
extending from OLT PTCL QA Department plays a critical role in the
to ONT i.e. Feeder, overall GPON network deployment and it encircles
Distribution and Drop all the major activities of ongoing deployment quality
sections. Here, a wide
range of conformance checks, preparation of port plans, and last but not the
tests against standards can least, testing and accepting the network.

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