Highly innovative open, programmable and scalable converged services
architecture aligns with key operator imperatives
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 27, 2016--
ADTRAN®,
Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation open
networking solutions, today announced that Verizon has selected its
SDN-optimized NG-PON2 solution for upcoming lab trials. The goal is to
create a cost-effective Fiber-to-the-Home solution that meets business
and residential needs today and is capable of scaling to 40G and beyond
to meet market need.
Initial testing will be conducted at Verizon’s Innovation Lab in
Waltham, Massachusetts, and will focus on several features of NG-PON2,
including the implementation of tunable multiple wavelength 40 Gigabit
per second capability to support a mix of services on a common converged
platform. This capability enables carriers to efficiently address the
increase in demand for critical service segments including residential
Gigabit broadband, big data, IoT and premium cloud and enterprise
services growth and expansion.
With Verizon taking the lead, and support from ADTRAN, the companies
will collaborate on groundbreaking interoperability work that will
contribute to Verizon’s ONT Management and Control Interface (OMCI) that
will allow NG-PON2 OLTs to interoperate with multiple vendor ONTs. The
flexibility provided with this open, dis-aggregated architecture
provides lower first cost and positions Verizon for fully programmable
NG-PON2 solutions, while also fueling a collaborative, scalable
framework that prioritizes service reach and efficiency.
According to Verizon’s
press release issued on July 20, 2016, the company plans to
initially deploy a number of business services in 2017, followed by
residential services as the technology matures and the market demands.
Verizon selected NG-PON2, in part, because of the associated deployment
efficiencies, requiring only a minimal change in centralized electronics
to implement. NG-PON2 technology is fully compatible with Verizon’s
current underlying fiber optic infrastructure.
ADTRAN’s NG-PON2 broadband platform is of particular interest to service
providers because of several inherent innovative benefits that
significantly reduce the overall cost of operations for delivering
converged 10G services. This software-defined access architecture
features an innovative optics implementation that offers extreme scale,
maximizing SDN/NFV network automation and supporting rapid service
delivery capabilities while improving network integrity and quality of
experience. Highly elastic NG-PON2 technology aligns well with ADTRAN’s
open and disaggregated software-defined access network architecture and
will be leveraged by service providers, including market leaders like
Verizon, as they move toward a more open, programmable and scalable
service architecture. Finally, ADTRAN’s NG-PON2 OLT system maximizes
these benefits with non-blocking, multi-terabit capacity and open SDN
programmability.
“NG-PON2, as evidenced by Verizon’s commitment to it, can be a game
changer as service providers look to advance their service capabilities
over existing access infrastructures and underpin the open,
programmable, scalable service architectures of the future,” said Jay
Wilson, ADTRAN’s senior vice president, Technology and Strategy.
“ADTRAN’s NG-PON2 platform leverages innovative optic technologies to
help overcome the most costly part of FTTH architecture so that the
business case can broaden to include business and residential use cases.”
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 Schulte,
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