Nokia accelerates cable operators' transition to all-digital, IP and fiber networks with industry-first solution for unified ...
September 26 2016 - 9:07AM
- Nokia's new Gainspeed portfolio for unified cable access
supports all cable access networks including hybrid fiber-coaxial
(HFC), passive optical networking (PON) and point-to-point
Ethernet.
- Virtualized Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) approach
provides the capacity, agility and flexibility cable operators need
to deliver new revenue-generating services while significantly
reducing operating expenses.
ESPOO, Finland, Sept. 26, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
-- Nokia today announced its new Gainspeed product
family for unified cable access, giving cable operators a faster,
more cost-effective way to increase the capacity of their existing
HFC networks and meet growing customer demand for greater bandwidth
services .
Cable operators' existing HFC networks -- originally designed to
carry broadcast analog video -- are being overwhelmed by traffic
from IP video, high-speed data services, gaming, file sharing,
video conferencing, cloud computing and other business
applications. Collectively, these services are driving a
40-60% average annual compound growth in data capacity
requirements. To effectively address these growing bandwidth needs,
cable operators must invest heavily in their existing HFC network
and in new fiber networks to meet the required network performance
levels.
Nokia's unified cable access solution addresses these challenges
by leveraging Software Defined Networking (SDN) techniques to
virtualize the CCAP. Built using a Distributed Access Architecture
(DAA), the Nokia solution pushes cable-specific functions out to
access nodes close to the subscriber while centralizing control and
management. This approach significantly reduces the costs of
traditional cable architectures by eliminating the CCAP as a
physical box and replacing the analog optical transmission with
10Gbps Ethernet.
Virtualizing the CCAP also helps to drastically reduce space and
power requirements in the headend and hub, while simultaneously
delivering full spectrum DOCSIS to every access node, enabling
cable operators to deliver multi-gigabit services to customers over
their existing coaxial cable. Finally, it provides truly unified
cable access by transparently supporting both cable and fiber
access in the last mile.
Jeff White, head of business development and strategy for
cable in Nokia's Fixed Networks business group said: "The cable
industry is at a crossroads and facing change at a level it has
never seen before. The current way of building cable networks
simply will not scale to meet the tidal wave of IP video and
high-speed data demands faced by cable operators. We're helping
operators add capacity, greatly simplify the network operations and
prepare for an all-fiber, all-IP network."
Erik M. Keith, principal analyst for broadband networks and
multiplay services at Current Analysis said: "CCAP technology
provides cable operators with substantial capital and operational
expenditure savings over legacy headends. However, Nokia's unified
cable access solution, which virtualizes the CCAP, takes MSOs to
the next level with at least three major 'Force 10' efficiency
multipliers, specifically, 10x improvements in fiber efficiency,
power consumption and rack space footprints over centralized CCAP
implementations."
Nokia's Gainspeed product family offers cable operators a single
solution that combines HFC and cable technology innovations from
the Gainspeed acquisition with Nokia's industry-leading fiber
product portfolio, further extending Nokia's presence in the cable
market and providing a solution for unified cable access. The new
Nokia portfolio of cable access products includes:
- Gainspeed Access Controller
- Gainspeed Video Engine
- Gainspeed Access Node SC-2D supporting DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1
- Gainspeed Access Node SF-4X supporting 10G EPON
Currently in a number of customer lab and field trials across
North America and Europe, the new unified cable access solution
will be available commercially later this year with the SF-4X
following in early 2017.
Did you know?
- Nokia's unified cable access solution is the only DAA capable
of supporting legacy video without having to do a full upgrade or a
separate overlay. The solution is built on NETCONF, allowing it to
elegantly integrate into existing cable back office systems, and
has an open architecture that can work with any edge router.
- When compared to traditional CCAP solutions Nokia's virtual
CCAP approach delivers dramatically better operating results. For
example, based on modeling done for an a major cable operator, the
solution delivered an 8-fold reduction in power, a 7-fold reduction
in rack space and a substantial improvement in signal quality with
no analog transmission distance limits.
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