Nx10G tunable optics network can save providers up to 80 percent of
the capital and operational costs as they look to scale NG-PON2
deployments
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 2016--
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation open
networking solutions, today announced its first Subscriber Edge Tunable
(SET) optical transceivers, the latest innovation from ADTRAN Labs.
ADTRAN’s entry into this new category of tunable optics addresses
several key technology and innovation gaps that have hindered market
development for multi-wavelength access networks. SET optics will be a
key enabling technology for ADTRAN’s NG-PON2 solution, facilitating the
delivery of highly elastic fiber services right to the customer premises
equipment (CPE). Developed by ADTRAN Labs, this most recent innovation
will enable access providers to cost-effectively and efficiently
leverage Nx10G NG-PON2 to deliver even higher speed FTTH services to
homes and business.
SET optics provide an essential building block for the wavelength agile
access network of the future, providing the dynamic network capabilities
needed to underpin the provider’s creation and deployment of user-driven
service delivery models. By providing fast wavelength switching times
and access-friendly cost points, SET optics will remove the operational
and economic sensitivities that have previously limited tunable optics
to transport applications. When paired with software-defined access to
allow dynamic control, SET optics and NG-PON2 provide a highly dynamic
physical layer to extend the programmable network to optical levels.
“With our new SET optical transceivers, ADTRAN Labs is addressing the
most significant challenge for the economics of NG-PON2 deployments. The
future value of the dynamic and extensible capabilities of NG-PON2 are
unmatched and will serve the needs of access network providers worldwide
for many years,” said Kevin Schneider, ADTRAN’s chief technology
officer. “The capability to design our own optical transceivers allows
ADTRAN Labs to focus on the needs of our customers and bring innovative
enabling technology to market to enable their business cases.”
As Internet traffic levels rise and service providers look to support
business and enterprise services over a unified access network, the
ability to add capacity on the fly has become a network imperative. The
multi-wavelength capability of NG-PON2, enabled by SET optics, helps
access network operators pull more capacity out of their existing fiber
access plants, providing a dispatch-free upgrade path when the existing
PON capacity has become exhausted. Additionally, combining SDN-enabled
capacity management with ADTRAN’s SET optics’ sub-50ms wavelength
switchover times enables NG-PON2 networks to ensure the highest level of
application quality of experience in a user-defined service structure
and deliver resilient, SLA-based services. These benefits are realized
by allowing the automatic offload of traffic from congested or out of
service wavelengths and OLT ports to alternative wavelengths on less
utilized network assets.
“Today, service providers are looking for highly scalable, programmable
service delivery models. It is imperative that their current fiber
network investment cost-effectively supports the next wave of
multi-gigabit growth spurred by emerging user-driven services and
applications,” said Julie Kunstler, principal analyst at Ovum. “ADTRAN’s
subscriber edge tunable optics solution supports the cost-efficient
expansion and unbundling of the FTTx architecture, accelerating the
rollout of 10G residential and 10G and beyond enterprise services
through disruptive ONT and CPE pricing.”
SET optics is one of several optical technology choices in ADTRAN’s
unique access portfolio, providing flexible optics possibilities,
including both fixed-wavelength and SET options for 10G ONUs to meet the
needs of all access network operators.
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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