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The fundamental benefits of PON technology are flexibility, reliability and simplicity. It eliminates active network components, such as amplifiers, switches or regenerators from field locations. With PON architecture, all active components are placed at the ends of the fiber and nothing, other than small passive optical splitters, are placed in the field. These splitters fit into standard splice enclosures and can be conveniently installed with the cable. No further maintenance is required. Eliminated are expensive controlled environmental vaults (CEVs), air conditioning requirements, large pedestals, commercial powering, as well as time consuming technician dispatches.
Secondly, PON technology employs bi-directional communications over a single fiber strand. This technology reduces the amount of fiber needed by more than half, which benefits the operator (as compared to point-to-point). For operators with exhausted fiber capacity, PON enables the reclamation of capacity through better fiber utilization. This results in few fibers needed to support large numbers of subscribers. This single strand of fiber can feed as many as thirty-two service drops and multiple customer locations.
Unlike first generation ATM-based access equipment, Alloptic has developed a disruptive Gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (GEPON) technology, which provides a low cost method of deploying optical access lines between a service provider's central office and a user's site. Alloptic's GEPON enables service providers to deliver bundled data, video, and voice services over fiber directly to businesses and homes at high speeds and low price points.
Current broadband access technologies such as DSL, HFC (cable modems) and even the more recent ATM-based PONs do not deliver the most cost effective solution to the last mile bottleneck. None of these older solutions create sufficient bandwidth to deliver those new value-added services that will generate renewed revenue growth for service providers. In sharp contrast Alloptic's EPON technology delivers 1 Gbps of bandwidth, enabling a broad range of voice, data, and video services for fiber-to-the-business (FTTB) and a compelling case for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH).
By leveraging both widely accepted and flexible Ethernet technologies, as well as an intellectual property portfolio of 2 patents and 16 pending patents, the Alloptic solution enjoys cost advantages over competing PON offerings (e.g., ATM based PONs), as well as the benefits of a network architecture that is technologically superior, simpler and easier to maintain than current solutions.
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