 |
 |
||
|
|
||
XGS-PON Plugfest Shows Operators a Migration Path The second-annual XGS-PON interoperability plugfest in France brought together 13 companies and a meeting of the minds, as participants accelerated PON technology development and mapped out a migration path for operators. Organized by Laboratoire des Applications Numériques (LAN), in partnership with the Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group and the Broadband Forum, the agenda addressed interoperability between XGS-PON Optical Line Terminations (OLTs) and Optical Network Units (ONUs), plus the coexistence between PON technologies such as G-PON and NG-PON2. "The industry is very much working together to ensure that when it comes to deploying PON technologies, operators have a wide choice of interoperable solutions and can deploy the technology cost-effectively," said Thierry Doligez, director of LAN, in a statement. In fact, NG-PON equipment revenue will represent more than half the total PON equipment revenue by 2022, according to Ovum's "Wireline Broadband Access Equipment Forecast" released in February. Plugfest participants included ADTRAN, Broadcom, Calix, CommScope, Econet, Huawei, Intel, MT2, Nokia, Sagemcom, TiBit Communications and ZTE; several operators contributed to the test plan in their desire for increased interoperability across vendors. Interoperability testing and ONU certification are "essential to Orange before envisioning any significant deployment of a technology generation," Christian Gacon, director of Wireline Network and Infrastructure at Orange Labs, said in a prepared statement. "XGS-PON test events prove the basic standards sanity check and enable the next step, consisting [of] common technical specifications amongst major operators worldwide to focus the industry towards a bulk first market for the technology." A growing number of service providers including AT&T is deploying XGS-PON. More visibility into the technology's evolution and interoperability should help accelerate and broaden adoption. Related posts: — Alison Diana, Editor, UBB2020. Follow us on Twitter @UBB2020 or @alisoncdiana. |
In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
|
|
|
||
