1Vault Networks taps FiberLight for network diversity

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FiberLight LLC, provider of metro optical transport, is partnering with 1Vault Networks to provide optical transport capacity throughout the South Florida market by connecting diversely routed fiber between 1Vault Network’s Category 5 Data Center in Fort Lauderdale and global IP provider NTT America.

FiberLight says the agreement provides it with new partnership opportunities in Fort Lauderdale while meeting its core business strategy of supplying metro optical backbone between data centers and high-bandwidth user locations in growing metro markets.

Migration to GPON: Practical considerations from the central office to the outside plant

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Story by Patrick J. Sims and Pat Thompson of ADC

Service providers need not look too far in the past to find examples
of networks built without consideration for future technologies. While
our telecommunications forefathers may not have predicted today’s
broadband revolution as they designed the copper telephone network,
this legacy infrastructure still enabled a rough deployment of xDSL
technologies.

However,
the unpredictable performance of xDSL over load coils, splices, varying
gauges and conditions of the legacy copper network produced costly
lessons in

Billion chooses BroadLight’s SoC for GPON Residential Gateways

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Broadlight, supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, today announced that Billion Electric Co., Ltd. has selected its BL2348 Residential Gateway (RG) system-on-a-chip (SoC) for a new line of high-performance CPE devices.

Billion says its new GPON line of CPE products will deliver carrier-class performance in a low-cost design that meets all the carrier requirements for deploying volume GPON services over the next year.

PMC-Sierra intros second-gen GPON devices

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008 – PMC-Sierra Inc. has announced the availability of new GPON SoCs, which include the PAS7401 GPON ONT, the MSP7162 GPON Gateway, and the PAS5211 four-port GPON OLT. They feature PMC-Sierra’s GigaPASS architecture, which PMC-Sierra says is already deployed in more than 6 million PON devices and is enhanced for WT-156 compliance. These devices are PMC-Sierra’s second-generation GPON SoCs and include complete reference designs and software packages; all have proven interoperability with a wide-range of commercial GPON systems, according to the company.

“By partnering with PMC-Sierra to supply industry-leading GPON access equipment, Dasan is able to leverage PMC-Sierra’s extensive experience based on millions of FTTH field deployments,” said Dr. Steve Lee, vice president and head of R&D, Dasan Networks, Inc. “Our partnership enables us to offer high-performance, low-cost triple-play GPON systems based on field-proven, flexible platforms that