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FTTxThe most advanced end-to-end FTTx solution available today
ApplicationAs service providers look to boost revenues and offer new multimedia services, bandwidth availability and service quality becomes crucial. The need to deliver high-definition video, faster Internet services, and on-demand content combine to require high-speed fiber-based services. Standards-based GPON and Active Ethernet technologies have become the solutions choice for delivery of fully featured Triple Play networks. Historically, the high construction and installation costs requisite to deploy FTTx have presented a significant barrier to its widespread adoption - and similarly the time consuming and costly process to re-wire homes with Ethernet for IPTV have slowed deployment as well. Fiber is commonly looked to for new developments and greenfield applications, where the costs to deploy fiber no greater than new copper. However, increasingly carriers are beginning migration of FTTx into existing neighborhoods to ensure the necessary bandwidth is available to deliver a competitive suite of services. Zhone has addressed these challenges from a service providers perspective and developed solutions to simplify the installation of FTTx, minimize operational costs, and to deliver networks fully capable of delivering competitive "Triple Play" services - with no new in-home wiring. Zhone offers a complete solution with the MALC, MALC-OLT and zNID family of intelligent gateway products for every type of FTTx application – From new developments and greenfield to copper re-builds and replacements. Zhone enables the intelligent, managed convergence of broadband services between the carrier and home network with up to 100 Mbps of bandwidth across a complete FTTx solution. Solution: MALC-OLT and zNIDZhone’s innovative approach to GPON based FTTx, utilizes the MALC-OLT and terminates at the premises with the zNID ONT, dramatically lowers the cost of fiber to the premise deployment and the related operational expenses. Zhone addresses installation efficiency, locally powering the ONT, utilizing existing in-home wiring, and facilitating remote management and troubleshooting without a truck roll once an installation is complete. The MALC is a converged services access platform that can be configured as a GPON or Active Ethernet OLT, or have fiber and copper services mixed. The MALC-OLT GPON line card is ITU-T G.984 compliant, delivering up to 2.5 Gbps downstream and 1.25 Gbps upstream. Each line card is designed for up to 64 passive splits per fiber. Active Ethernet delivers up to 100 Mbps point-to-point from a 10-port card. 
Zhone also provides its own line of passive optical splitters and WDM combiners which are thoroughly tested for optimum performance with the MALC-OLT GPON line card to ensure optical loss is within budget. It also benefits a customer in getting a complete solution from a single vendor that is fully tested as a system. zNID: No new wires - no new holesZhone's industry leading zNID is the intelligent convergence of ONT and home networking technology - delivering up to 100 Mbps to the home. Designed to install outside the home, it is rugged, weatherproof and specially designed for use in the hottest or coldest weather extremes. zNID can be locally powered via the phone lines already in the home, or AC powered. It has an optional battery back up system that can be installed separately from the zNID. Combined with HPNA3 for distribution of services in the residence over coax or phone lines directly from the zNID, the key benefits are the elimination of new wiring and installation in the home, and no drilling inside the home that are often times disruptive to the subscriber along with time consuming. The zNID is the first-of-its-kind intelligent home gateway to integrate HPNA3 over both existing in-home coax or phone lines - both capable of delivering Ethernet up to 100 Mbps. The zNID incorporates advanced layer 2 and layer 3 IP capabilities to serve as an intelligent multi-service device at the home. It supports choice of bridging, switching or routing of services. And it incorporates industry standard DSL Forum TR69 for remote provisioning and management from a server used for all other DSL CPE devices. Features
Zhone Value Proposition and BenefitsQuality of Experience (QoE) begins at installation and continues during service. Zhone delivers higher quality service and satisfaction by combing fast and non-intrusive installation of FTTH. HPNA3 over phone lines or coax, coupled with powering over phone lines in the home lowers CapEx by reducing triple play home installations to as little as an hour, rather than taking an entire day. Layer 3 IP intelligence and TR69 centralized remote management lowers OpEx by enabling complete management of multimedia services without a truck roll every time a problem occurs. The ability to support IPTV and RF video along with data and voice services (triple play) from a single platform increases revenue opportunities. Zhone’s complete end-to-end GPON and Active Ethernet solutions with MALC-OLT, optical splitter packages and zNID is the most complete FTTH platform delivering converged broadband services in the industry. |
“Zhone has an extremely well planned FTTx solution. Post-installation we can upgrade or change services without future truck rolls and manage the system using the same server we use for standard DSL services.”