| Alcatel, France, has enhanced its portfolio of multimedia services to both residential and business customers with its Fibre-to-the-User (FTTU) solution. The Alcatel 7340 FTTU was the first Broadband Passive Optical Network (BPON) standards compliant solution to reach the market, and with a growing number of proven deployments, the company has introduced the second generation BPON hardware with significant operational enhancements.
The complete, end-to-end, standards compliant FTTU portfolio enables service providers to offer their customers advanced video, voice and data services through a cost-optimised, future-proof fibre network. The 7340 FTTU is optimised for growth in broadband/Internet Protocol (IP) services and can aggregate and groom communications traffic for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), IP, and voice networks. Release 2.0 of the Alcatel FTTU solution includes a higher capacity switch fabric, and higher capacity network interfaces and access interfaces. The enhanced capacity enables 100Mbit/s of throughput per subscriber, and the new interfaces provide flexibility for network interconnection with both IP and ATM core networks. Release 2.0 also includes a hardened Business ONT (B-ONT) for outdoor installation. Alcatel is currently working with third-party vendors to enhance interoperability and reduce network installation and operations costs. In North America, the Alcatel 5526 AMS management system supports Alcatel�s access network product family, including the 7300 ASAM, Litespan-2000 and 7340 FTTU.
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