“70/80/90” BENEFITS With the Tellabs®
1150 Multiservice Access Platform Woodstock delivers up to 75 Mbps via fiber to homes.
Preparing for the Future Woodstock first replaced the 5E switch with a softswitch that can provide SIP-based voice service. Then Knuth began to look for a future-ready access platform that could support services such as IPTV and video on demand. Knuth also wanted a proven vendor with the staying power to continue evolving that platform. The problem within the access-equipment market, Knuth
said, is that “Company A comes out with a good product but, a year later, Company B leapfrogs them. Company A is not big enough and well-enough established to do the research or spend the research dollars to keep up with Company B or to leapfrog them.” Knuth chose the Tellabs®
1150 Multiservice Access
Platform (MSAP) with integrated SIP interface and GPON line modules for a FTTH solution. The choice was based partly on Knuth’s decades of experience with Tellabs equipment and his expectations of the vendor’s staying power. The Tellabs 1150 MSAP’s non-blocking architecture
was another key factor. With its 720-Gbps backplane, 44 Gbps to every multiservice card slot and 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplink capabilities, the Tellabs 1150 MSAP has the scalability to help Woodstock stay ahead of customers’ bandwidth requirements. Knuth expects that in a few years, many customers will want to boost their access speeds to 40 Mbps or 50 Mbps. Woodstock has deployed 3 Tellabs 1150 MSAPs in a ring
and plans to add a fourth. Eventually it will install a fifth Tellabs 1150 MSAP in a point-to-point connection off the ring. Although the ring now supports GigE transport, Knuth said Woodstock likely will ramp that up to 10 Gbps to handle all the IP traffic among the 5 exchanges.
Desktop Fiber Eventually Knuth also likes the Tellabs 1150 MSAP’s GPON line module because “that’s the latest technology, and that’s what we use.” Woodstock has no immediate plans to take fiber all the
way to the desktop, but Knuth said he may consider that application within the next several years. “That would be an advantage because you could put a splitter in a business system, put in indoor ONTs and run fiber right to the desktop.”
(MSAP), Woodstock Telephone now has the option to take fiber all the way to customers’ desktops. That’s because Tellabs has converged FTTD software with the Tellabs 1150 MSAP to make it function as a GPON OLT. Combined with the deployment of new indoor ONTs 1600-704, that adds up to an
such as the Tellabs®
opportunity for Woodstock to deliver not only residential triple-play services, but also highly secure FTTD applica- tions for commercial customers. “An FTTD application would really make Woodstock
stand out from the competition because other vendors and operators can’t offer that,” said Ken Berniklau, Tellabs product manager. “In the process, Woodstock could leverage its existing investment in the Tellabs 1150 platform to create additional revenue streams and simultaneously reduce costs. There’s no need to maintain multiple systems.” He cites business models that quantify the
“70/80/90” benefits of offering an FTTD application based on the Tellabs 1150 platform, compared with an Active Ethernet solution: 70% less CapEx, 80% lower power requirements and 90% less physical space.
In keeping with its long-term perspective, Woodstock also
will be the first non-government customer to field-trial the new Tellabs®
1600-704 Indoor GPON ONT, which features
4 1-G Ethernet ports and 2 voice ports. Because many rural networks will not move to VoIP in the near future, the voice ports make the GPON ONT an ideal solution. Although Woodstock customers haven’t asked for FTTD
service yet, Knuth said the indoor ONT would enable his company to deliver the service when banks and other commercial customers are ready for it. In addition, he expects the smart home, with appliances wired for remote control, to be “quite an application in the future,” and one that clearly depends on an indoor ONT. “We’re seeing a lot of development in that area, so we’re trying to get everything inside.” n
ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode CapEx: Capital Expenses DLC: Digital Loop Carrier DSL: Digital Subscriber Line FTTD: Fiber to the Desktop FTTH: Fiber to the Home FTTN: Fiber to the Node GigE: Gigabit Ethernet
GPON: Gigabit Passive Optical Network
TELLABS INSIGHT Q3 15
GPS: Global Positioning System IP: Internet Protocol IPTV: Internet Protocol Television VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol OLT: Optical Line Terminal ONT: Optical Network Terminal PON: Passive Optical Network SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
SONET: Synchronous Optical Networking
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