3 —  ONT and MDU general and interface technical specifications
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3.1 Overview
This chapter provides information about ONT and MDU technical specifications.
3.2 System and service capacity specifications
This section provides the ONT system and service capacity specifications. Service 
descriptions, such as VoIP and flex services, are provided in the appropriate OLT 
Product Information Manual.
P-OLT performance and distance
The P-OLT provides performance and distance capacity of 2.488 Gb/s downstream 
and 1.244 Gb/s upstream, within a 18.6 mile (30 km) span with GLT2-x cards and 
within 37.3 miles (60 km) span with the GLT4-A and GLT4-D cards. The PON reach 
available depends on the optical budget supported by the LT card used, the PON 
reach specified based on network deployments, and the loss of optical fiber, 
connectors, and splitters, and so on. Extended PON deployment allows you to 
configure each PON to provide a 20 km, 34 km, and a 40 km differential window for 
ranging and ONT operation. 
The optical link budget is defined by both loss and bandwidth characteristics. The 
loss characteristic is the difference between the optical transmitter and optical 
receiver for each direction, and is typically 28 dB. The bandwidth characteristic is 
the maximum link distance parameter of each OLT and ONT transmitter 
specification, and is limited by the smaller of the upstream and downstream values. 
PON capacity
The number of ONTs on the PON affects the bandwidth available to each subscriber.
Table 3-1 lists the capacity of various components on the PON. Individual capacity 
per device is listed in the data sheet for the device.
Table 3-1 Capacity for PON system elements
Capacity  Maximum Notes
PON
Maximum number of IGMP channels 
per PON
288 Only created on VLAN ports.
Maximum number of data UNI ports 
per PON (total of all UNI types)
288 This is the total of all CES (CESUNUI and CESPW UNI), ENET, VoIP, 
and VDSL2 UNIs.
VoIP UNIs are created automatically when the ONT is planned 
with the VOIPALLOWED parameter set to enabled (YES in TL1).
Maximum number of CESUNI UNI 
ports per PON
128
Maximum number of CES PW UNI 
ports per PON
128
Maximum number of POTS ports per 
PON
384 —
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