Demostrating Bi-PON for the first time from the GreenTouch Consortium

GreenTouch™, the global consortium dedicated to dramatically improving the energy efficiency of information and communications technology (ICT) networks by a factor of 1,000, recently announced a new technology that will dramatically reduce energy consumption in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, as well as other applications. The breakthrough Bit-Interleaved Passive Optical Network (Bi-PON) technology is the second major milestone reached by the consortium. When deployed, it will enable a power reduction of 30 times over current technologies while improving performance and reducing cost. This is the first demostration of Bi-PON.

FTTH is expected to nearly double over the next five years, reaching 142 million subscribers worldwide by 2016, according to ABI Research. With Bi-PON instead of the current optical technology in use, consumers will see a sizeable reduction in their energy consumption, saving the environment and dramatically reducing their energy bills. Significantly, the impact will be the equivalent carbon of taking half a million cars from the roads. That's roughly all the cars in a city like San Francisco.