Wavelength Reconfigurable Point-to-Multipoint Fiber-Wireless Fronthaul with 10 Gb/s traffic for Network Sharing Applications

Abstract

A reconfigurable Fiber-Wireless fronthaul that can steer $4 \lambda -$WDM IFoF channels with 4x 2.5 Gb/s data traffic of 16-QAM signals to V-band Phased Antennas Array using an AWGR as an all-passive any-to-any wavelength router is experimentally evaluatedpresented towards promoting the coexistence of multiple fronthaul streams of Mobile Network Operators/Tenants operating over a single, shared 5G C-RAN architecture, while simultaneously satisfying for the first time, the 5G Key Performance Indicator (KPI) requirement for a 10 Gb/s aggregate peak-data traffic capacity through FiWi mmWave/IFoF links based on Phased Array Antenna with RF beamsteering.