(Source: Business Wire)
Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc. (HCTA) the only vendor
offering a comprehensive line of EPON, GPON, DePON, MW-PON, and RFoG
equipment today announced a new line of Optical Network Units (ONU) for
their DePON fiber access systems. The new ONUs leverage the low cost,
high bandwidth available with PON while enabling cable service providers
to keep their existing DOCSIS provisioning and management systems. The
new products support voice, video, data and wireless services for
creation of double play, triple play, and quad play subscriber bundles.
Advanced software features in the new ONU family enable cable operators
to offer high bandwidth data services along with voice and RF Video
while preserving investments in CPE and existing management procedures.
EPON is becoming an important new technology for delivering high
bandwidth, MEF-certified services for Enterprise, SMB, multi-tenant
units, mobile backhaul and residential applications. These growth
markets often require fiber access technology. Access fiber can be a
significant cost component in the acquisition of these new customers.
PON technologies were developed to reduce the amount of fiber needed for
access and thereby reduce costs in this part of the network. More than 5
million SMBs and Enterprises are potential PON customers, and for mobile
backhaul the percentage of fiber attached cell towers will increase from
70% today to more than 89% by 2013 according to industry analysts. EPON
will be an important factor in these applications. The new Hitachi ONUs
are designed to support this growth.
"We work closely with our MSO partners to define the right feature sets
for these new devices," said Dr. Yanming Liu, CMO for HCTA. "Our
emphasis on advanced software functions enables the delivery of voice,
video and data services for any business, residential or backhaul
application. We know from our joint development work with customers that
these features create new revenue opportunities service providers can
rapidly leverage," he continued.
To meet a wide range of applications the new ONUs comply with important
industry standards and certifications including: IEEE, MEF, ITU-T, and
CableLabs' PacketCable Multimedia (PCMM) specification. The ONU family
includes the following products:
The Hitachi C-603/C603-MW are commercial units for double play
applications. They have four Gigabit Ethernet ports for data traffic
and two POTS interfaces to support advanced voice features.
The Hitachi C-606/C-606-MW are commercial units also for double play
applications.
