NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon has
successfully completed what it believes is the first
interoperability trial of NG-PON2 (next generation passive optical
network) technology at its Verizon Labs location in Waltham, Mass.
This trial demonstrated that equipment from different vendors on
either end of a single fiber -- at the service provider's endpoint
and at the customer's endpoint -- can be used to deliver service
without impacting the end user. This breakthrough in NG-PON2
interoperability will provide increased flexibility and resiliency
as well as the ability to meet customer needs more quickly. Until
now, equipment from the same vendor had to be used on both
endpoints.
The selected participating companies were ADTRAN, Broadcom,
Cortina Access and Ericsson (in partnership with Calix). The trial
tested plans aligned with Verizon's Open OMCI specifications, which
define the OLT-to-ONT interface and will be shared with the
industry in the next few months.
"Verizon has chosen NG-PON2, which is an ITU-T-developed
international standard, for its next-generation network," said Dr.
Denis Khotimsky, Distinguished
Member of the Technical Staff and Verizon's lead engineer on this
trial. "This technology is the foundation for providing services
that deliver multi-gigabit speeds."
Verizon is evaluating NG-PON2 technology to provide increased
speeds, functionality and reliability to customers on its fiber
access network, including the award-winning Fios network. This
technology supports up to 40G of total capacity and up to 10G
speeds per customer, both upstream and downstream, over a single
fiber. With NG-PON2 technology, Verizon will be able to easily
increase system capacity by adding wavelengths to meet the demand
for traffic drivers such as ultra-high definition video, virtual
reality applications and cloud services.
Dr. Vincent O'Byrne, director of
technology at Verizon, added, "Verizon and the participants in this
trial are focused on establishing NG-PON2 as the industry's first
PON standard that can be deployed in an interoperable fashion from
Day One."
This interoperability trial is the next natural step in the
company's plan to implement NG-PON2. In 2015, Verizon announced it
had successfully completed field testing of NG-PON2 technology.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in
New York City, has a diverse
workforce of 162,000 and generated nearly $132 billion in 2015 revenues. Verizon operates
America's most reliable wireless network, with 113.7 million retail
connections nationwide. The company also provides communications
and entertainment services over mobile broadband and the nation's
premier all-fiber network, and delivers integrated business
solutions to customers worldwide.
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