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

(courtesy of Lightwave and Pennwell)

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

(courtesy of Lightwave and Pennwell)

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.

Suo Cable Net taps Alcatel-Lucent for Japanese GPON

(couresty of Lightwave – Pennwell)

Suo Cable Net, a Japanese cable-TV operator, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to design, integrate, and deploy a GPON. The new network, which will enable Suo Cable Net to begin rolling out high-speed Internet and video services this month, will be the first commercial GPON deployment in Japan, the systems house says.

With more than 10 million FTTH subscribers, Japan is one of the most advanced countries in terms of high-speed broadband coverage. While most initial deployments used BPON technology, GE-PON has been the technology of choice