Recent Developments in Regulatory Compliance

On June 7th, 2022, ANATEL published Act No. 7869, which updates the testing requirements for GPON and establishes testing requirements for XGPON and XGSPON technologies.

The Act sets forth the minimum requirements that must be demonstrated in the conformity assessment of the following equipment for optical fiber networks:

• Optical Network Terminal (ONT)
• Optical Line Terminal (OLT)
• Optical Network Unit (ONU)

These requirements apply to passive network standards with a capacity of:

• 1 Gbps (Gigabit-capable passive optical network - GPON)
• 10 Gbps (10-Gigabit-capable passive optical network - XGPON)
• 10 Gbps symmetric (10-Gigabit-capable symmetric passive optical network - XGSPON)

This Act came into force on June 10th, 2022.