Revolutionizing Cable Networks
With growing demands from residential and enterprise customers and aggressive competition, cable operators must remain on the cutting edge of technology. To ensure their customers’ needs are being met, they must strategically invest in faster, more scalable networks to deliver high reliability and lower operating expenses.
Nokia’s fiber broadband solutions emerge as the leaders in this space, offering three generations of Passive Optical Network (PON) technology – GPON, XGS-PON, and 25G PON – all on the same hardware while also introducing a suite of fiber solutions that address the needs of evolving broadband networks.
Future-Proof Connectivity with Nokia
Nokia’s fiber broadband solutions pave the way for a network that meets current needs and scales seamlessly to 50G, 100G, and beyond. The key advantage lies in the ability to deploy these technologies today with the assurance of future scalability without the need for active electronics or periodic maintenance in the outside plant. Whether evolving a DOCSIS-based Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) network or expanding into new areas, Nokia provides cable operators with a future-proof platform capable of connecting everyone and everything.
Nokia’s dominance in the global XGS-PON Optical Line Terminal (OLT) market highlights the efficiency and effectiveness of its solutions.
Fiber, when compared to other access network options, delivers superior results across various metrics:
Faster Speeds
Offering multi-gigabit speeds ranging from GPON at 2.5 Gb/s to XGS-PON at 10 Gb/s and even 25 Gb/s.
Symmetrical Bandwidth
Inherently suited to symmetric downstream and upstream performance, enhancing the overall user experience.
Higher Reliability
Fiber networks with minimal active outside plant components and little to no regular maintenance required, lasting 50-75 years.
Lower OPEX
Fiber offers around 50% OPEX savings compared to HFC, which can be attributed to lower power consumption, greater durability, and reduced maintenance.
Greener Technology
Fiber’s eco-friendly nature uses 7-12 times less energy and has a significantly lower environmental impact than mining copper.
Superior Performance
Lower noise levels and signal attenuation lead to lower latency and less jitter.
Greater Scalability
Leveraging the physics of fiber with 10,000 GHz of bandwidth, enabling essentially limitless capacity.
Fiber for Everything, Beyond the Home
Fiber isn’t just for residential use – it extends to businesses, smart cities, mobile transport, and Industry 4.0. The ability to deliver multiple services on the same infrastructure translates to more revenues, quicker service introductions, lower operating expenses, and increased customer satisfaction. Fiber emerges as the fastest, greenest, and most widely deployed broadband technology, continuously evolving to meet the demands of the Fiber for Everything era.
Challenges in MDUs and Nokia’s Gigabit Connect Solution
While fiber is unparalleled in performance, scalability, and reliability, challenges arise in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) like apartments, condominiums, and hotels. Installing fiber in these buildings can be costly, time-consuming, or even impossible.
Nokia addresses this challenge with the Gigabit Connect solution, utilizing MoCA Access™ to deliver multi-gigabit services over existing coaxial cables. This alternative ensures a fiber-like experience for tenant subscribers while allowing cable operators to manage the network efficiently as part of their FTTH network.
The Nokia Lightspan Portfolio
The Nokia Lightspan suite of products includes a range of fiber access solutions designed to address various needs in the evolving landscape of broadband networks.
Lightspan SF 8-M Fiber Access Nodes
Introducing the Lightspan SF-8M, a high-performance, sealed fiber access node designed for outdoor deployments. This passively cooled fiber access node supports various PON technologies, including GPON, XGS-PON, Multi-PON, and 25G PON. Its deployment flexibility allows mounting on a strand, inside or outside a cabinet, or on a pole or wall.
With pluggable powering options, including redundant coax or triple power, the Lightspan SF-8M is powered by the Nokia Quillion chipset, offering high-throughput, power-efficient, and low-latency fiber connectivity for residential, business, and mobile transport services.
Lightspan DF Fiber Access Nodes
The Lightspan DF family of optical line terminals (OLT) provides flexibility in fiber deployments. The Lightspan DF OLTs support GPON, XGS-PON, and 25G PON in a distributed or disaggregated access network architecture, enabling cost-efficient network evolution. These mini-OLTs improve cable operators’ business cases by offering features such as increased capacity, flexible deployment options, energy efficiency, and support for software-defined access networking (SDAN).
Lightspan MF Fiber Platform
The Lightspan MF are software-defined fiber access nodes designed to deliver massive-scale, high-speed broadband services with 25G PON, 50G PON, and beyond. This platform supports the shift from fiber-to-the-home to Fiber for Everything, connecting consumers, businesses, Industry 4.0, mobile sites, wholesale, and smart cities on a single access infrastructure. With benefits such as future capabilities, increased revenues, network operation efficiency, and environmental sustainability, the Lightspan MF paves the way for a new era of fiber broadband.
Lightspan FX Fiber Access Nodes
The Lightspan FX series of high-capacity access nodes addresses the challenges of massive-scale fiber deployments. Supporting multiple PON technologies simultaneously, these nodes provide uncompromised performance and SDN programmability for residential, mobile, and business users. With variants suitable for various fiber networks, the Lightspan FX series offers unmatched flexibility, ensuring cable operators can evolve their networks to meet today’s and tomorrow’s demands.
About Infinity Technology Solutions
Infinity Technology Solutions specializes in broadband and critical communications infrastructure development. We help our channel partners create and deploy private wireless, microwave backhaul, IP/MPLS, and optical networking technologies.
For more information, give us a call or fill out the contact form below.
