sckipio and actiontec present at broadband multimedia marketers association on g.fast

Gigabit Service Proliferation with G.fast

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Who are we?

• Sckipio– Leader in G.fast modems

– 3yrs old, $27 million raised so far

– First with production G.fast solution

• Actiontec– Residential CPE Provider To Tier 1 and 2 Providers in North America

– Targeted solutions that leverage copper and fiber infrastructures for Telcos

– Integrated wireless gateway solutions designed for maximum throughput

– Integrator of Sckipio technology into residential CPE solutions

Topics

Why So ExcitingG.Fast Overview

Deployment Ideas Opportunity

How’s it perform?

Status & Ecosystem

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What’s the Big

G.fast Idea?

Leverage your existing

copper wiring to deliver ultra

broadband to the masses

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PROBLEM OF SUBSCRIBER DROP

•Trenching on premises

• Installation scheduling & cost

•Right of way issues

•Roll-out delays due to capacity of installers

•Very expensive overall

Average 1.8km

Average 500m

Average 30m

$$$

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Central Office

VDSL2

800-1,000 meters

Less than 140Mbps

G.fast Distribution Point

30-400 meters

Up to 1Gbps

Fiber to the Home

Over 1 Kilometer

Over 1Gbps

Fiber

Twisted Pair

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DPU-Distribution Point Unit

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Big picture system diagram

GPON

SFP

16-port

G.fast DPU

Single port

G.fast CPE

as SFP

x16

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Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP)

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SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

CPE (FTU-R)EMS CPENetconf

G.fast G.fast ME

PMA

Operator

Network

Copper

Network

Netconf

G.fast

VideoHead-End

OpenFlow

SDNController

OpenFlow

BackhaulHON

DPU

KEY FEATURES

Up to

1Gbps

Flexible Upstream & Downstream

Works in Apartments

No new wiring

Customer Self-Install

4xFaster to Deploy

More robust

$750Bin savings

TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGHS

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Key Technology breakthroughs• Faster: Higher bandwidth (3-5x more – up to 106Mhz)

• Vectoring to deal will all frequencies

• Low power (TDD vs FDD)

• Short symbol times

• Fast retrain and dynamic rate adaption

Topics



How’s it perform?

Status & Ecosystem

The Consumer Dream

3-Dec-14Confidential | Sckipio

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How does the consumer win?•A more prosperous world

•A healthier world

•A better educated world

•A smarter, more responsive world

•A more fun and enjoyable world

The Telco’s Competitive Weapon

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SATISFACTION* WITH CURRENT BROADBAND

* Those who are very satisfied in MDU

Source: Broadband Communities 2014

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24

18

20

14

36

30

27

31

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Reliability and Service Uptime

Consistency of Speed

Upload speed

Download Speed

Streaming Video

Cable DSL

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CABLE GETTING STRONGER

Topics


Deployment Ideas Ecosystem Opportunity

How’s it perform?

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HOW FAST IS G.FAST

700

Mbps

100 meters

500Mbps

200 meters

350Mbps

300 meters

270Mbps

400 meters

150Mbps

500 meters

Numbers are aggregate

upstream/downstream

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CAN WE GET TO 1Gbps?• Two options

– Bonding

– Higher frequencies

• Bonding is feasible THIS YEAR

• Higher frequencies will require a few years

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Flexible Upstream/Downstream• You can establish the ratio between upstream and

downstream

• Must coordinate this ratio for the entire DPU – can’t be

provisioned per consumer (within a shared DPU)

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HOW DOES IT WORK WITH

VDSL?

• Co-exists with VDSL

• VDSL stays at lower frequencies

• G.fast is notched for higher frequencies

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IS VDSL FALLBACK

NECESSARY?

• No. Most service providers won’t deploy

• Don’t want to double pay for existing VDSL customers – They already have VDSL running, no need to pay again

• Cross-technology vectoring is challenging– If integrated into a single chip – essentially impossible

– Possible with two-chip solution – but isolated via frequency

Topics



How’s it perform?

Status & Ecosystem

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G.FAST & FTTdp ARCHITECTURE

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MDU IS KEY MARKET

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U.S. MDU Breakdown

10.72M

2-4 units

6.6M

5-9 units

6.1M

10-19 units

4.6M

20-49 units

5.2M

50 + units

Source: US Census

29.3M households are MDU

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DPU in the basement• Smaller buildings

• Fiber to the DPU

• DPU in basement

• 1:16 today to CPE

• 24 feasible now, 48 future

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DPU on each floor• FTTF (Fiber to the Floor)

• Larger buildings

• Fiber to riser (WDM-PON, GPON)

• DPU on each floor

• 1:16 for each floor

• 24 feasible now, 48 future

x16

x16

x16

x16

x16

Fiber

.

.

.

Floor 1

.

.

.

.

.

.

Floor 2

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Outdoor Plant• Row housing

• Fiber down street (WDM-

PON, GPON)

• DPU to each building or

section of building

• Reverse power feed from

CPE to power DPU

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Rooftop with wireless

Siklu Wireless BackhaulUp to 2Gbps broadband backhaul through interference-free, millimeter-wave E-Band and V-Band wireless communications

Sckipio MDU Broadband Access16-port G.fast DPU connected to 16 copper pairs delivering up to 1Gbps per subscriber line via to G.fast CPE devices

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SINGLE FAMILY DWELLINGS

Topics


Deployment Ideas

How’s it perform?

Opportunity

Status & Ecosystem

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Status on the G.fast Standard

• ITU Standard Completed in

December

• Chip plugfests underway (2 so far)

• First device certification in June

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Equipment is coming quickly

• Range of port counts– Up to 16 ports

– Higher port counts coming

• MDU environments– FTTB

• Outdoor Plant– Pole

– Handhold

– FTTC

• Standalone bridge– One line today

– Bonded in future

– Wall-mounted

• Residential gateways– Full suite of features

– Either built-in or SFP module

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Flexibility of other options• Input flexibility

– GPON

– WDM-PON

– GigE

• Reverse power– Flexibility in location to put DPU

Topics


Deployment Ideas

Performance/Limits

Opportunity

Status & Ecosystem

The Business Case

HUGE Opportunity

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CABLE IS RIPE FOR PICKING

71%

(flat)

Verizon

65%

(flat)

AT&T

65%

(+1%)

CenturyLink

64%

(-4%)

Cox

63%

(-2%)

Average

Source: 2014 ACSI

Cable Satisfaction

Rates are low and

declining

61%

(-4%)

Charter

57%

(-5%)

Comcast

54%(-9%)

TWC

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The Need for SpeedNew FCC Regulations adds

pressure for performance

beyond 25Mbps

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FUTURE APPS NEED CAPACITY

4K UltraHD

Cloud services (back-up, Internet of Things, UGC, etc.)

Real time 2-way UltraHD video chat

(social, telemedicine, distance learning)

1Gbps

Basic Internet (social, shopping, search, news, etc)

OTT Video (Netflix, 4K YouTube, etc.)

AFFORDABLE*

Saves over $650/subscriber

Zero Touch

Take Rate

Take back the market with

G.fast

Gigabit Service Proliferation with G.fast