Alcatel-Lucent Intros FTTB Product Line

Alcatel-Lucent announced an important extension to its market-leading Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) portfolio of digital subscriber line (DSL) and fiber access products. The ISAM’s new fiber to the building (FTTB) capabilities complement this product family’s existing central office (CO) and cabinet solutions.

The ISAM FTTB portfolio allows operators to deliver up to 100 Mbps over copper in multi-dwelling unit (MDU) environments, in which it can be difficult to introduce fiber. DSL service providers in markets that use the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standards can thus complement their CO & cabinet deployments, and bring fiber closer to the subscriber whenever the installation of street cabinets is not an option.

Alcatel-Lucent’s ISAM FTTB portfolio encompasses four new products, all delivering very high-speed DSL (VDSL) services over the copper twisted pair in MDUs. All products share the ISAM family’s state-of-the art DSL technology and are managed by the 5520 Access Management System (AMS), covering all ISAM copper and fiber access products.

The ISAM FTTB portfolio not only includes products with standard Gigabit Ethernet and GPON network aggregation links, but also supports Alcatel-Lucent’s unique “distributed DSLAM” model - an innovative network architecture whereby the remote DSLAMs are managed as remote line cards, connected to a central host. With this model, service providers have up to 24 times fewer nodes to manage, resulting in lower aggregation capital expenditures as well as more cost-effective operations - due to fewer software upgrades, re-use of line cards and fewer systems to configure and maintain.

Additionally, Alcatel-Lucent announced the 7352 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) Fiber to the Building (FTTB) Optical Network Terminal (ONT).

The Alcatel-Lucent 7352 ISAM FTTB ONT is an ultra-compact VDSL2 access node optimized for FTTB deployments. The product complies with the Full Service Access Network (FSAN) gigabit passive optical network (GPON) standards, and supports the delivery of very high-speed broadband services (up to 100 Mbps) over existing copper pairs.

The Alcatel-Lucent 7352 ISAM FTTB ONT allows service providers to deploy high-capacity broadband services with a reduced time to market by re-using in-building copper. In addition, Alcatel-Lucent’s unique ‘virtual ONT’ model supports the same quality of service (QoS) across copper and fiber.


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