In the Press
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Date: 19th June 2007 Title: Strategic announcement: PacketFront develops GPON solution PacketFront, the pioneer in open-access broadband networking, has announced its activities for a GPON solution for the broadband market in the first half of 2008. The GPON activities will see the use of passive fiber optics reaching residential and business end users, similar to PacketFront's current Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) solution using active equipment. "With this GPON solution we will be able to offer FTTH access to a much broader market compared to today," said Niclas Sonesson, CTO of PacketFront. "We can achieve a passive FTTH access solution in cases where our current active solution is not a preferred alternative." GPON technology's strength lies in its promise of higher density in the central office, and easier ways of carrying the fiber in demographics using aerial cables. The expected future growth of HD-rich TV and video content drives the need for gigabit bandwidth speeds to the end users, an area where GPON will play an important role in the future. "We believe GPON will become the predominant PON standard among carriers in North America and Europe complementing active Ethernet for FTTH," said Lynn Hutcheson, Vice President communication components at market research firm Ovum-RHK. "There are deployment scenarios where GPON has advantages and others when active Ethernet is better suited. The more flexibility network operators can have in their choice of technology the better off they will be." Independent of either active or passive FTTH, ADSL2+ or other access technologies PacketFront's automated broadband solution can manage it all in one single control and provisioning system, BECS. PacketFront's successful broadband solution offers unique possibilities to GPON customers for cost-efficient broadband deployment and operation, including its proven abilities for advanced service differentiation and personalization. The open-access business model, an area where PacketFront is a world leader, is yet another advantage presented to GPON cases. Multiple service providers share the same infrastructure, and end users can choose services from the service provider of their choice. The GPON solution will consist of indoor and outdoor Optical Network Units (ONU) and the PacketFront high density Optical Line Terminal (OLT). The GPON OLT will be based on the same flexible feature-set as the recently launched ASR 5000, which is targeted for active Ethernet FTTH. PacketFront’s advanced service and traffic control functionality will be added to the GPON system. The imagination-based networking concept, launched with the ASR 5000, gives full feature flexibility and investment protection for network owners. "The development of the ONU utilizes our expertise
and know-how of the DRG series of customer premises equipment, and will
offer end-users freedom of choice represented by our solution," said
Niclas Sonesson. "It is important for us to respond to our customers'
requirements, which we achieve by bringing the GPON solution forward. As
the complexity is on the solution side rather than the PON or physical
layer side, the driver for our customers is to be able to automate and
manage their network elements and services using our combination of
Advanced Services Routers and control & provisioning
system."
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