FTTH Council Europe 2008 Alcatel-Lucent Ups the Ante in the GPON Game with 250-Gbps Boost
| Feb 29, 2008 | Broadband Infrastructure| Show Update
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Analyst: Erik Keith
Current Perspective: Positive
Vendor Importance: High
Market Impact: Very High |
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Event Summary
February 28, 2008 -- Alcatel-Lucent announced important capacity innovations to its 7342 Intelligent Services Access Manager Fiber-to-the-User (ISAM FTTU) GPON platform at the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council Europe’s annual conference. The newest release features a 250-Gbps switching capacity per network termination (NT) module and it supports load sharing between the two NTs in a single shelf. New uplink capacity – with two 10-Gbps and two 1-Gbps uplinks per NT – provides non-blocking throughput that enables high-bandwidth, converged triple play services to consumers as well as business customers.
Analytical Summary
• Current Perspective: Positive on Alcatel-Lucent’s introduction of the 250 Gbps switching capacity upgrade to its network termination (NT) module and related capacity/throughput increases (i.e., the two 10-Gbps and two 1-Gbps uplinks per NT), as this upgrade will provide operators with the additional bandwidth/processing overhead necessary for supporting large-scale triple play services, especially in terms of supporting bandwidth and QoS/QoE-intensive applications such as multi-stream HDTV and ultra-broadband data connectivity per household.
• Vendor Importance: High to Alcatel-Lucent, which, despite its long-time market leadership in the global DSL access market and its corollary success in the emerging FTTx/FTTP sector, still needed to bolster its “speeds and feeds” proposition for its flagship 7342 FTTU OLT platform, in order to match or beat the throughput and switching capacities of rival platforms that assert higher metrics. This move also ensures that Alcatel-Lucent remains on the leading edge of the FTTP market from a technology and service-delivery standpoint.
• Market Impact: Very high on the fiber access market, because despite the claims of rival vendors as GPON and FTTH market leaders (i.e., in terms of port shipments and/or subscribers supported), the bottom line is that Alcatel-Lucent is still the vendor to beat in the worldwide wireline broadband access market. This is due not only to its pioneering efforts in the telco broadband market, but also its clear long-term commitment to this sector, as shown by its decade-plus leadership in the DSL market (with approximately 160 million DSL ports shipped to date), its ongoing product development, and its opportunities to upgrade its installed base of DSL access customers to FTTx and FTTP networks.
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