Sets the foundation to bring datacenter economies and cloud agility
to service providers with defined CORD use cases for residential, mobile
and enterprise networks
BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2017--
Mobile World Congress—ADTRAN®,
Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation open
networking solutions, announced that it is building on the early market
leadership of its CORD® (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter)
compliant portfolio and broadening the use cases so these open
principles can be applied over any network infrastructure and for every
customer segment. Whether it is 10G PON over fiber, G.fast over copper
or coax, DOCSIS 3.1 over coax, or 5G wireless, these software-defined
access (SD access) technologies are all foundational for establishing
Gigabit Societies and the carriers’ ability to realize their goal of
creating a platform economy. ADTRAN believes that its open, programmable
CORD network architecture approach is instrumental as its customers look
to create a simplified service delivery platform that can leverage a
wide range of next-generation access technologies for fixed or mobile
connectivity.
Carriers are looking to leverage their investments in broadband to drive
revenue and rapidly create new services outside of the confines of
traditional closed proprietary systems. ADTRAN’s open CORD-based
architecture simplifies the complexity that is oftentimes associated
with unifying services over fiber, copper, cable and wireless. This CORD
approach creates the network platform for one seamless, open network. As
each market segment presents its own opportunities and challenges,
ADTRAN has been particularly successful in advancing residential CORD
(R-CORD) developments and helping its customers push CORD architectures
as deeply into the network as possible and take advantage of
increasingly tremendous avenues for growth.
Throughout 2016, ADTRAN demonstrated its commitment to CORD
architectures with its disaggregated and virtualized OLT and ONT
products. The company is an ONOS (Open Network Operating System)
Collaborator and is focused on ON.Labs initiatives, which include CORD,
ONOS and VOLTHA (Virtual OLT Hardware Abstraction). ADTRAN’s CORD-based
programmable access architectures are ideally suited to support
residential, business and backhaul services over a converged access
architecture including 10G EPON, XGS-PON, NGPON2 and P2P 10GE, as well
as copper and coax access with G.fast. ADTRAN is the first and only
access vendor that has demonstrated open and programmable network
elements fully aligned with the R-CORD architecture and its platforms
are currently involved in over 25 trials with carriers around the world.
These next-generation access products that fit into the CORD
architecture are available today and being deployed by several global
operators.
“We are excited to add a company with the access domain expertise of
ADTRAN to our contributor base,” said Guru Parulkar, executive director,
ON.Lab and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). “ADTRAN’s commitment to
bring datacenter economies and cloud agility to service providers for
its residential, enterprise and mobile customers will significantly
expand the reach and accelerate the time-to-market for open,
programmable networks.”
“Our multi-market development approach is based on our customers telling
us how broadly they want to leverage CORD in their networks and the role
it will play in their ability to compete and win in an increasingly
competitive market,” said Robert Conger, associate vice president, cloud
and portfolio strategy for ADTRAN. “Our customers have stated that in
order to compete with cloud-based competitors, they must have comparable
network programmability to that of the data center environment, and the
interface must be homogenous regardless of the access technology that
the next generation of services are delivered over. As a strategic
partner to our customers, ADTRAN’s commitment to CORD frames our product
development and roadmap, all driven toward providing our customers the
ability to connect to any customer, over any network, and using a truly
open platform on which they can deliver services at web scale.”
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video
and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.
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