Industry breakthrough redefines the economics of NG-PON2 with a
common 10G access architecture for simultaneous residential, premium
business and backhaul application delivery
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2015--
ADTRAN®,
Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation networking
solutions, today announced an industry breakthrough in the economics of
delivering Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) services based on NG-PON2
architecture. Using the latest 10 Gigabit per second (10G) wavelength
symmetric ITU/FSAN standards-based technology, ADTRAN is accelerating
the delivery of NG-PON2 by transforming the economic paradigm that
typically relegates new technologies to niche or premium services
delivery for several years because of higher cost points. For service
providers, this is the first time both existing residential FTTP
customers and early business adopters of next-generation premium
technology can be immediately supported on a single, common access
architecture afforded by streamlining high cost areas of the next
generation architecture.
In today’s market, operators are delivering multiple Gigabit
broadband services from their FTTP network and commonly desire to
converge premium business services onto this same network. Upgrading
FTTP networks to 10G NG-PON2 provides network operators the performance
to extend the life of their network. ADTRAN traffic engineering studies
show that NG-PON2 can double the life of a FTTP network used for
converged 1G residential and business services while providing an
architecture that supports cost-effective 10G business and backhaul
services delivery.
“ADTRAN’s NG-PON2 implementation has the potential to advance the
adoption of 10G FTTP for residential markets by three to five years,
while its increased capacity will double the life of the network,” said
Jeff Heynen, research director for Broadband Access and Pay TV at
Infonetics Research, now part of IHS Inc. “NG-PON2’s initial rollout was
thought to primarily benefit premium business and backhaul services
because of its much higher cost over GPON FTTP solutions. ADTRAN will
dramatically change this dynamic, delivering 10G NG-PON2 solutions at
costs approaching today’s volume-priced 2.5G GPON. This allows service
providers to affordably scale next-gen PON deployments and provide
flexibility without compromising future capabilities.”
Service providers face several challenges as they look for ways to scale
their existing PON networks to meet the growing bandwidth demand from
residential and business customers. Current GPON solutions support a
limited number of true Gigabit broadband customers and are simply not
designed to support premium multi-Gigabit cloud backhaul and wireless
front-haul services. NG-PON2 solves this issue by delivering 4 times
more bandwidth per wavelength and multiple wavelengths for additional
capacity. However, the high cost of 10G optical components today is a
limiting factor in making this a reality for the highly competitive,
mass market of residential services delivery.
ADTRAN is streamlining the high cost design areas by developing a
flexible optics approach to NG-PON2 allowing the system to interoperate
with multiple “cost vs. capability” types of optical transceivers to
maximize economic flexibility. This “pay as you grow” approach allows
the service provider to align the optics cost with the target
applications, starting with low-cost symmetric 10G deployment options
and growing to multi-wavelength TWDM capabilities. ADTRAN’s NG-PON2
platform supports 10 Gigabit GPON, TWDM PON, P2P DWDM, 10 Gigabit EPON,
and GPON. To optimize the full service agility promise of NG-PON2,
ADTRAN’s solution supports provisioning through modern, open APIs,
facilitating deployment using next-generation software defined
networking (SDN)-based management systems. This new architecture is
currently available for demonstration and will begin field trials in the
third quarter of this year.
“ADTRAN has a long history in developing designs that break economic
barriers, giving service providers the maximum flexibility they need to
deliver the services of tomorrow that their customers demand today,”
said Robert Conger, associate vice president, carrier strategy for
ADTRAN. “With seemingly infinite demand for broadband from both
residential and business customers, service providers are challenged to
explore economically viable options that allow them to scale PON
networks to support Gigabit service growth.”
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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Ashley Baster, 919-435-9112
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