ADTRAN Accelerates Path to Symmetric 10 Gigabit Broadband
May 13 2015 - 5:30AM
Business Wire
Industry breakthrough redefines the economics
of NG-PON2 with a common 10G access architecture for simultaneous
residential, premium business and backhaul application delivery
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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