Clean-Sheet Architecture Sets New Industry Benchmarks for Non-Blocking Bandwidth, Service Intelligence, and Intuitive Management

Zhone Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZHNE), a global leader in access solutions, announced today its MXK^™ intelligent terabit access concentrator line, a category-defining addition to the company’s family of carrier-class multi-service access platform (MSAP) products. The new MXK platforms feature a 2x bandwidth improvement over the closest competitor — with non-blocking capacity of up to 3,600 100 Mbps GPON subscribers or 360 1G Active Ethernet subscribers per chassis — while leveraging Zhone’s well-proven SLMS™ access operating system for sophisticated service intelligence and ease of management.

Accelerating shifts in subscriber expectations that move ever more traffic from broadcast video to unicast multi-stream HD, video on demand, and immersive games are placing unprecedented demands on access networks. A truly scalable response to these demands requires a clean-sheet approach to access network architecture — an approach Zhone has pioneered with the MXK platforms.