Tellabs, the leading provider of Passive Optical Network (PON) solutions, and leading test vendor EXFO announced a live demonstration of the ever-increasing bandwidths possible over PON while preserving investment in existing fiber cabling, splitter, and equipment.
This joint technology showcase is available for viewing at BICSI Winter Conference 2020 in Tampa, Florida, from February 10th through 12th.
Tellabs and EXFO aim to validate to BICSI attendees that a fiber-based enterprise LAN, designed using PON technology, can cost effectively support one gigabit to ten gigabit connectivity speeds simultaneously over existing infrastructure to satisfy the constantly increasing network capacities demanded of today’s modern smart buildings. A real-world example being how PON can more economically evolve a network to accommodate the oncoming bandwidth required for IEEE 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 wireless access points.
Specifically, this interactive demonstration will stage the following technologies all over the same PON OLT, cabling, splitters and PON ONTs.
- XFP-based symmetric 10G XGS-PON and 2.5G G-PON at OLT
- 10G XGS-PON and 2.5G G-PON wavelengths across common network
- Both G-PON ONTs and XGS-PON ONTs over same infrastructure
- Flexible 1G, 2.5G, 5G and 10G multi-rate Ethernet connectivity at ONTs
- Centralized management with software defined LAN functionalityFiber monitoring, testing and troubleshooting best practices
John Hoover, Marketing Director, Tellabs
By supporting both XGS-PON and G-PON technologies over the same fiber-based infrastructure, the industry can now economically design, expand and operate smart building networks by minimizing future network expansion footprint, power and costs.
Jimmy Gagnon, Team Leader BDM, EXFO
This is a great opportunity for all the BICSI Winter attendees to get a look at the industry’s best fiber testing practices and see first-hand EXFO’s new test solutions for passive optical LANs.
