Abstract
With the advent of broadband, the focus of the industry has been on speed and capacity. However, there has been a corresponding increase in the power consumption and the resulting expense to power and cool the equipment. This power increase is not only related to the speed of the technology but primarily the change in the access network moving from a statistical voice connection to ‘always on’ broadband. It has been estimated that the 220 million DSL subscribers in the ‘always on’ world have an annual carbon dioxide footprint impact of 1.5 billon pounds. This talk will show why the GPON is not only the FTTH technology of choice due to its speed and cost performance but its positive environmental effect in significantly reducing the carbon footprint and powering costs and reversing the power-bandwidth trend back to the days of dial-up modems.

Speaker Biography
Dan Parsons has over 23 years experience in telecommunications and was an earlier adopter in the development of C and DWDM transport products in 1992. In 2000 he initiated AFC's (now Tellabs) FTTP efforts and brought to market the industry's first hardened CWDM ROADM. Dan has held engineering, marketing and business development roles throughout his career and has been in the semiconductor industry for the past 4 years where he is currently the Director of Marketing at BroadLight. Dan received his P.Eng in Ottawa, Canada and has authored numerous industry papers and two patent applications in optical networking.<Back>