Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Telecom (USA) yesterday announced what it described as the "broadest set of optical access solutions in the industry from a single vendor." The AMN Optical Access product family consists of a suite of access solutions designed for the telecom market in North America.
Hitachi reports increased interest in North America for PON products, and said that is has modified and expanded its suite to address the specific needs of North America. Hitachi claims to be the only company that offers B-PON, GbE-PON and Point-to-Point all in one product family.
"The market for optical access has started to grow in the last year or so with utility and municipality deployments to be followed by larger carriers. We believe Hitachi's proven solutions will bring value to this market," Frank Banks, vice president of sales, Hitachi Telecom.
Hitachi also said it will offer a complete end-to-end solution for every product with customer-premised-based ONUs (Optical Network Units), central-office-based OLTs (Optical Line Termination)and a single management system.
According to Hitachi, the AMN Optical Access product Family consists of the following:
The AMN1200 series -- an Ethernet B-PON system compliant with the ITU-T G.983 standards. Hitachi developed FSAN components to implement bi-directional transmission over a single optical fiber (downstream: 622Mbit/s, upstream: 156Mbit/s) to extend LAN segments up to 20km. The AMN 1200 series is designed to offer a more sophisticated way to achieve fast Internet and Ethernet access services transmitting at high-speeds up to 100Mbit/s per user with up to 32 users sharing a single fiber from the Central Office (CO).
The triple play B-PON series -- developed in conjunction with Wave7 Optics in order to address the specific needs of the North American market. The triple play B-PON delivers data, voice and video applications to a residence or small office over a single fiber. It uses WDM technology to support video services with interoperability to existing industry leading Set Top Boxes (STB). The customer unit mounts to the exterior of a building in a hardened shell allowing for minimal interference, while allowing service providers to offer revenue generating next-generation broadband access technology to customers.
The AMN1500 series -- designed for higher bandwidth applications suited especially to enterprise customers. The GbE-PON transmits 1Gbit/s both upstream and downstream and is based on the progressing IEEE802.3ah Ge-PON standard.
The AMN1100 Media Converter -- a point-to-point Ethernet converter that dedicates a fiber to each customer. The AMN1100 provides dedicated bi-directional bandwidth of 100Mbit/s end-to-end, which is designed to ensure a secure connection with no shared bandwidth.
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