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ADTRAN Upgrades NG-PON2 to Support 5G and Mission Critical Services
ADTRAN®,
Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation open
networking solutions, today announced that it has taken the next step in
mobilizing Software Defined Access by successfully demonstrating
non-service impacting wavelength agility and ultra-low latency with its
NG-PON2 solution. These milestones were reached in April in support of
ADTRAN's (News - Alert) SD-Access strategy for mobile networks, announced
at the 2017 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, making it the first
in the world to achieve these milestones. ADTRAN's NG-PON2 wavelength
agility delivers the reliability required to support Service Level
Agreements (SLA) for the most demanding mission critical applications.
Non-service impacting wavelength agility also provides increased network
resiliency and real-time elastic capacity, and delivers a mechanism to
optimize utilization of available optical wavelengths in the access
network.
According to a report
by CIR, 5G densification promises to be a watershe application for
NG-PON2, representing a nearly $1B market opportunity by 2026. This will
be driven by NG-PON2's ability to accelerate the path to 5G due to the
scale advantages PON-based fiber networks have over P2P and mmWave Xhaul
options.
"We expect NG-PON2 shipments to start ramping up in 2019, then nearly
double every year for the next couple of years after that. This would be
perfect timing to deploy NG-PON2 to backhaul 5G networks as capacity
requirements on some 5G networks will be significantly higher than
today's 4G networks," said Alam Tamboli, Senior Analyst, Dell' (News - Alert)Oro Group,
Inc.
"Network operators are looking for a more cost-effective, scalable and
highly available network architecture to ensure that 5G services can be
delivered anywhere, to anyone, at home, work or play," said Ryan
McCowan, Director of Portfolio Management for Fiber Access & Aggregation
at ADTRAN. "ADTRAN's NG-PON2 solutions deliver the resiliency,
multi-gigabit scale and latency requirements needed to support mission
critical applications. These capabilities demonstrate how NG-PON2 can be
a keystone access technology for the future of service delivery for both
fixed and mobile broadband."
To date, PON technologies, originally developed for fiber-to-the-home
(FTTH) applications, have not been considered robust enough for
SLA-based services, including the upcoming wave of 5G and IoT services
that operators are planning to offer and customers are hopeful to
leverage. Addressing the variety of 5G backhaul, crosshaul, and
fronthaul applications also requires very low latency, a trait not
traditionally associated with PON technologies. ADTRAN's demonstrating
non-service impacting wavelength switching in less than 50 milliseconds
on its NG-PON2 OLTs presents the market an economic, scalable solution
for network operators worldwide. ADTRAN has also demonstrated sub-20
microsecond network latency through NG-PON2, enabling even the most
demanding 5G fronthaul applications to take advantage of the economics
of PON networks while retaining the resiliency and performance
previously attainable only with point-to-point fiber. Combined with
ADTRAN's proven leadership in software-defined access networks, NG-PON2
can deliver the performance, the programmability, and the multi-gigabit
ubiquity required to support small cell 5G densification initiatives and
the high bandwidth and highly responsive mission critical mobile
services they support.
SD-Access based NG-PON2 has the potential to rapidly accelerate the path
to 5G, reducing the time to market for automatous cars, tactile
internet, massive IoT, and enhanced broadband applications such as 8k
video, augmented and virtual reality and artificial intelligence. As the
leader in NG-PON2 technology, ADTRAN is well positioned to provide the
fiber access infrastructure for 5G.
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN's products enable voice, data, video
and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.
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