1. Ministry of
Communications
Research &
Development in
Telecommunications
May / 2015

2. FUNTTEL
Since 2005, more than R$ 240 millions
invested in R&D for optical communication
• Technical article and
publications = 245
• Patents = 38
• Registration of software
copyright = 56
• Prototypes and technologies
transferred = 118

3. industry transfer
Optical Amplifiers Generations
2006 – EDFA AGC2005 – EDFA OAGC 2006 – EDFA 1u 2007 – EDFA HGC
2012 – EDFA/RAMAN v12009 – NG EDFA 4,5 u 2014 – New Generation Optical Amplifier Platform

4. industry transfer
ROADM’s
2008 – ROADM PLC
(2-Degree, East/West
topology)
2010 – ROADM WSS Platform
(5/9-Degree, Ring and mesh
topologies)
2014 – NG ROADM CDCF
N-Degree

5. industry transfer
100G Coherent optical module
OIF module Inside OIF
Outside OIF moduleInside OIF

6. industry transfer
World First 16nm Commercial Chip for
Coherent Transmission
Coherent DSP ASIC
(TSMC 16nm process)
6 million transistors
Area: 2.3 mm2
Team: 35 people
Clariphy partnership400 Gb/s
Standard cell placement
Routing
Tapeout Done!!!
May-2015

7. today activities - optical networking
TODAY:
Metropolitan mesh network
with Brazilian home made
technology:
• 100G Transponders
• Amplifiers and optical
routers
• 5-city network (100 km
distance)
• supervisory channel
• SDN controller for network
management
FUTURE WORKS:
• 400G - 1T Transponders
• Multi-domain (WDM, IP,
Ethernet, etc.)
Node 1
Node 2
Node 3
Node 4
Node 5
WSS cardsKEY:
EDFA cards
SOM/SOD cards
Eth. switches 100-km SMF
spans
ROADM node
1
5
3
42
High-level network
applications
NETCONF / REST
SDN controller
Metropolitan mesh network
with SDN controller

8. activities: 400G/1T
400G - 1T Transponder R&D
• Consolidation as world
leaders in 400G transmission
technology (OIF
standardization)
• Prototype implementation of
Superchannels
• Design, implementation and
release of the first 400G chip
400G - 1 Tb/s
Benchtop

9. integrated photonics
New joint venture company
BrPhotonics - CPqD and GigOptix
• Thin Film Polymer on Silicon (TFPS)
technology
• Reference Platform DP-QPSK 100
Gbit/s coherent and beyond, form-
factor pluggable (CFP2)
• Integration of critical devices:
• Transmitter optical sub-assembly
(TOSA)
• Receiver optical sub-assembly
(ROSA)TOSA
Real-time 200G demo at
OFC’15

10. telecom sector: Brasil versus RoW
Source: ITU.
Internet
• Rank: 73
• Value: 39.6%
Fixed telephone
• Rank: 43
• Value: 37.8%
Mobile phone
• Rank: 26
• Value: 91.8%
PC
• Rank: 73
• Value: 45.8%
PC
• Rank: 56
• Value: 44.1%
Internet
• Rank: 62
• Value: 48.6%
Mobile phone
• Rank: 43
• Value: 78.5%
Households with...
People with...

11. some data
Accesses:
Density:
mobile
45 million 25 million 20 million
139/100 inhab. 23/100 inhab. 30/100 houses-
Other: 76% prepaid 870,000 payphones
fixed fixed BB mobile BB paid TV
283 million
61% DTH
39% TVC
184 million
-
93% 3G pop. covered
42% 4G pop. covered
9,2 Mpbs
avg. speed
Source: Telebrasil.

12. $$$
Source: Telebrasil.
Investment:
R$ 36.6 billion
(US$ 11.7 billion)
2014
Gross Revenue:
R$ 234.1 billion
(US$ 74.7 billion)
2014
Taxes:
R$ 59 billion
(US$ 18.8 billion)
2014
Employees:
525.5
thousand

13. broadband for all
Double the number of
access to broadband
Internet
Increase the average
speed of hits on fixed
broadband
Enabling the
modernization of
management of the
public services
2014
162.5 million
2018
300 million
2014
5.5 Mbps
2018
25 Mbps
40 thousand schools and
23 thousand UBS covered
by high capacity
broadband
e-gov health education

14. REPNBL (estimates)
Projects
approved:
1018
Investments
approved:
R$ 9.4 billion
US$ 3 billion
Enabled
projects:
366
Enabled
investments:
R$ 5.6 billion
US$ 1.8 billion
cities
affected:
1.335
Population
affected:
123 million
Submitted
projects:
1830
Submitted
investments:
R$ 26.4 billion
US$ 8.4 billion

15. José Gontijo
Director
jose.gontijo@comunicacoes.gov.br
Department of Industry, Science and Technology
Ministry of Communications
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