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Add PON technology to the most advanced optical node in the industry

Compatible with existing cable modem provisioning and management systems

Create new service tiers up to 1,000 Mbps

Enable migration from HFC to FTTP

A whole new light, growing brighter!

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The Industry’s First RFoG-Ethernet Access Network

RF VideoFeed

TDM Network IP Network

Return Path Receiver Return Path ReceiverReturn Path Transmitter

CommunicationsSecurityAutomation

CommunicationsEntertainment

CommunicationsEntertainment

EDFA

Edge2000 OLT

FTTMDU(RF Only)

FTTB

FTTB

FTTB

FTTH(RF Only)

WDMWDM

OpticalSplitter

1N

Headend Hub/Node OSPNetwork

Customer Premise

MicroNode

MicroNode

MicroNode

Xgen1000 ONT

Biz200 ONT

Xgen8000 ONT

Multi-Tenant

Small Business

Residential

BackhaulCommunicationsSecurityAutomation

BackhaulCommunicationsSecurityAutomation

Medium/LargeBusiness

Wireless Backhaul

CommunicationsSecurityAutomation

Corporate Office/Business Parks

CMTS

1550 nmLaser

Transmitter

Alloptic’s Hybrid PON SolutionAlloptic is the industry’s fi rst company to successfully bridge traditional telephone service, Ethernet service, and RF video serviceonto a single, seamless, passive optical distribution platform. By bringing together the technical worlds of passive optical network-ing (PON) and the RF over Glass (RFoG), Alloptic provides a unique, hybrid PON, solution providing the operator the fl exibility to the services they choose, in the format they prefer. This hybrid PON solution allows CATV providers to offer cable modem serviceand business Ethernet services with unmatched service fl exibility over a single, passive, fi ber optic infrastructure.

RFoG + PON

NC4000 Node

Residential Greenfield — 256 HP Business Park

Headend

Multiple Dwelling Units Residential and Business Community

Up to 80 km

Optical Redundancy

Service Delivery Set-Top Box EMTA (data, POTS) ONT — up to 1000 Mbps

Service Delivery ONT — up to 1000 Mbps POTS/VoIP

Service Delivery ONT — up to 1000 Mbps T1/E1 over Ethernet POTS/VoIP

Hybrid Service Delivery Coax Set-Top Box EMTA (data, POTS) Fiber ONT — up to 1000 Mbps

Fiber

Coax

ONT

ONT

1x32

128 hp128 hp128 hp

32 hp

32 hp

32 hp32 hp

Outside plantHeadend/hub In-home

WDM

SCDM

512 hp/0.5 Rx

Future

OLT

512 hp

Tx - TransAmp

128 hp (4 x 32hp PONs)

Rd module inXD Rx chassis

Hd module inXD Rx chassis

x4

Broadcast

2x

x8

x8

128 hp128 hp128 hp

Future Option A

Cisco DOCSIScontrolled OLT

Future Option B

xPONManagement

1310

1490

1610

1550

WB

LGX D-PONONT

FutureONT

WDMWB

CMTSBlade

RR5RRR

RRR4RR

RRRR3R

RRRR2

F1F2F3F4F5

R1

Fiber-to-the-Business

Fiber-to-the-Tower

Fiber-to-the-Home

Multidwellingunits

Single familyhomes

CWDM Mux Terminal

Headend

LCP Cabinet

Pedestal withMultiPort Terminal

Fiber Service Terminal

WirelessConsolidation Point

Feeder Cables

Distribution Cables

Drop Cables

Local Convergence Point

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Passive Optical Network/CWDM

Corning’s PON/CWDMCorning Cable Systems’ passive optical solutions provide total connectivity from the headend to the customer premises for advanced MSO archi-tectures. Implementing Corning Cable Systems’ passive optical network (PON) and/or course wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) designs results in increased performance and reduced costs. Preconnectorized solutions offer increased performance and reliability through the use of factory-installed and -tested connectivity. Preconnectorized assemblies also reduce deployment time and labor required, while increasing managed accessibility of maintenance resources to the plant. Costs are further reduced through initial construction labor, faster maintenance and lower ongo-ing operational expenditures. Whether deploying fi ber-to-the-home, wireless backhaul or fi ber-to-the business networks, Corning Cable Systems’ preconnectorized solutions are the new standard for today’s advanced communication networks.

E/G-221

E/G-221

ONT

16 - 64 X

ONTODN

PON

Homes

broadcastVideo OLT

15501490

IPTV1310

Headend(Central Office)

Videoheadend

DataSwitch

VoiceSwitch

(see text)

Trident 7Optical Line

Terminal(OLT)

WDM

Aurora Networks’ Node PON for Cable ArchitecturesMany of the world’s leading MSOs have been building their networks using Aurora’s NC4000 series nodes. With Aurora’s latest service expansion module, the GE4132M Node PON, operators can dramatically increase their service capacity. Aurora’s Node PON module enables delivery of an additional 1000 Mbps of service capacity to each of their node service areas. Aurora’s Node PON solution allows operators to preserve topologies with redundant optical paths, maintaining enhanced network reliability and providing a signifi cant advantage over traditional PON architectures. The Node PON solution complements Aurora’s other Access Network Solutions such as FTTP, Fiber on Demand and Bit-Coax.

Future-proof value today & tomorrow • Cisco’s Prisma DOCSIS PON (D-PON) products are a fi ber-to-the-home (FTTH) solution specifi cally designed for DOCSIS-based service providers. • The D-PON solution provides an MSO with the benefi ts of a PON while maintaining and leveraging the existing HFC back-offi ce systems, such as broadcast video, narrowcast video, switched digital video, VOD, DOCSIS data, DOCSIS VOIP and VDOC. • The D-PON solution supports 78 analog channels and 75 QAMs and will reach a distance of 20kms+, through a 32-way optical splitter, with full DOCSIS 3.0 upstream loading (four 64 QAM channels). • Service group sizes can be reduced in the Headend from 512 (16 PONs) to 256 (8 PONs) to 128 (four PONs) without having to roll a truck to modify the outside plant – the D-PON solution is truly a future proof architecture, today and tomorrow.

Cisco Prisma D-PON Solution (MSO FTTH)

Wave7 PON architectue This fi gure illustrates a PON at a high level. To the left is the point of signal origination, called a headend in the cableTV industry, and a central offi ce (CO) in the telephone industry. The PON is considered to start with the Optical Line Terminal (OLT), and to end at the home with the Optical Network Terminal (ONT). The OLT handles the PON protocol conversion and, in the case of Enablence’s Trident7, performs data aggregation. The broadcast video portion of the OLT can be considered to be the optical transmitter, sometimes called the Video Optical Line Terminal (VOLT). Other people take the optical transmitter to be just a normal part of the video headend and don’t consider it to be part of the OLT. The broadcast video chain will also normally include optical amplifi ers, (usually EDFAs – erbium doped fi ber ampli-fi ers), not shown. The Enablence ONT, at the subscriber’s home, contains optical/electrical signal conversion, and includes RF signal buffering and AGC, conversion of data to 10/100BASE-T on two ports, and voice conversion to POTS. Sometimes the term Optical Network Unit (ONU) will be used instead of ONT, if less functionality is included in the product. In between the OLT and ONT is the network itself, called the Optical Distribution Network (ODN). This term excludes the OLT and the ONT. Only passive splitting exists in the ODN, yielding a highly reliable, scalable, and low maintenance network. No active circuitry exists in the ODN, although Enablence does offer a temperature hardened Trident7 Com-pact OLT (COLT) that may be located outside of the CO, interconnected to the CO through other fi bers.

GPON networks become economically viable Upgrading a network with fi ber-to-the-home is famously expensive – witness the more than $18 billion Verizon has earmarked for its FiOS upgrade – but FTTH is acknowledged

to be an economically feasible option in new builds. There’s also a solid case to be made that recommends FTTH for Tier II and Tier III service providers, both cable and telco. Furthermore, with costs coming down for gigabit passive optical network (GPON)

equipment, fi ber vendors are trying to make the case that upgrades to GPON networking can be feasible for even the largest MSOs.