Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON)

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Alcatel-Lucent ISAM 7342 FTTU

The 7342 ISAM FTTU platform has enabled Alcatel-Lucent to establish leadership in the global FTTH market, but with recent enhancements to other ISAM platforms and the debut of the 7360 FX series, the 7342 is no longer its fiber access flagship. (1/4/2012)

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Calix C7

The C7 platform played an instrumental role in Calix establishing the world’s largest GPON customer count (now over 600 operators, albeit mostly in North America), but with the introduction of the E7 ESAP series, Calix has a new flagship. (1/3/2012)

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Ericsson EDA 1500

Ericsson has expanded its EDA 1500 solution set over the past year and garnered 114.8% YoY GPON market growth as of Q3 2011 thanks to customer traction in China and the Middle East, but still lags behind the Big Three in the fiber access sector. (12/30/2011)

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Hitachi Communication Technologies America AMN1220 OLT

Hitachi’s AMN1220 was the first full-rate, standards-based GPON system available in North America. Six years later, Hitachi’s fiber access focus is almost exclusively on evolving cable operator opportunities with EPON/DePON and RFoG technologies. (12/29/2011)

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Huawei MA5600T

In 2011, Huawei solidified its leadership of the DSL and overall fixed access market, on the strength of its flagship MA5600T platform and its compelling price/performance proposition, which only Alcatel-Lucent and ZTE can come close to matching. (1/3/2012)

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Motorola AXS Series (2200 and 1800)

With the 2011 acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google, the future of the Motorola’s fixed access portfolio in uncertain. Although Verizon and Cincinnati Bell are valuable GPON customers, Google may still jettison Motorola’s fixed line assets. (1/3/2012)

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Tellabs Multi-Service Access (MSA) series

Tellabs took leadership of the fleeting BPON market during phase one of Verizon’s FiOS network build-out, but the Verizon account took a tremendous toll on Tellabs, catalyzing its fiber access R&D freeze (except for the SARDANA WDM-PON project). (12/30/2011)

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Zhone Technologies MXK

Zhone’s MXK OLT solution supports very compelling capacity and throughput metrics, and the company has generated strong market traction with the MXK to date, shipping more than 2,600 systems in its first eight quarters of general availability. (11/18/2011)

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ZTE ZXA10 C300

ZTE’s powerful ZXA10 C300 platform provides operators with a broad range of fiber access configuration and service deployment options (GPON, EPON, P2P fiber, 10G), propelling the company to a strong number two position in the global PON market. (12/29/2011)

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• Current Analysis Perspective
• Product Strengths & Weaknesses
• Product Point and Counterpoint
• Product Buying Criteria
• Product Metrics

GPON Buying Criteria

• Application Support/System Robustness
  
  
• Backplane/System Throughput Capacity
  • The per-slot and/or per-chassis throughput capacity of the Optical Line Terminal (OLT), usually quantified in Gigabits per second (Gbps).
• Density/Scalability
  • Density and scalability are defined as the maximum number of subscribers the Optical Line Terminal (OLT) can support on a per unit and/or per-rack basis (e.g., port density).
• Deployment Flexibility
  • Deployment Flexibility addresses the platform’s ability to meet the distinct deployment requirements of carriers in areas such as network management, reach, mechanical options, and optics.
• ONT Range
  • Optical Network Terminal (ONT) range addresses the ONT options and varieties the vendor supports for various deployment scenarios such as multi-unit, business, and residential environments.

GPON Product Metrics

• PON Interface Support
  
• PON Ports per Chassis
  
• PON Price per Port
  
• PON Chipset
  
• Active Ethernet Support Yes/No
  
• Network Interfaces
  
• Transport Protocol
  
• Throughput per Slot
  
• Switching/Throughput Capacity
  
• Chassis Dimensions
  
• Form Factor
  
• Line Powered
  
• RF Overlay
  
• Customers
  
• Standards Compliance
  
• General Availability/FCS