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Teldat (News - Alert), Genexis and Comtrend have joined the Wavelength Division Multiplex-Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON) Ecosystem initiative from LG-Nortel. The companies have pledged interoperability of their CPE solutions that will enable telecommunications operators to implement next generation fiber-to-the-premises infrastructure.

The WDM-PON technology enables delivery of high-speed, point-to-point Ethernet services to businesses and residential customers over ultra broadband fiber access networks.

Creating solutions within the WDM PON ecosystem means tight interoperability between equipment from LG-Nortel (News - Alert), Genexis, Comtrend and Teldat. The resulting simplification of interoperability testing and shorten rollout times means the operators can deploy next-generation fibre-to-the-business/home/basestation (FTTx) and fiber backbone infrastructure more cost-effectively and efficiently.

Service providers aiming to address the burgeoning bandwidth demands of business and residential customers need fiber-optic connectivity, say the officials. Businesses search for cost-effective communications solutions that can boost employee productivity. Their needs are met by applications such as unified communications, high-definition videoconferencing, IPTV (News - Alert), and high-speed mobile communications.

But all these applications present significant challenges for service providers by increasing the amount of data travelling through their last mile networks. Company officials emphasize that the carriers must rapidly modernize the delivery of these high capacity services to meet forecasted demand.

 

By providing a cost-effective, resilient service layer, LG-Nortel's WDM-PON Ecosystem initiative speeds the delivery of high-speed, ultra broadband, standards-based Ethernet services to customer premises.

 

LG-Nortel will partner with leading technology providers to build a standards-based, interoperable WDM-PON Ecosystem, said Peter MacKinnon, chairman, LG-Nortel. This will take the complexity out of FttP rollouts and as a result speed up the delivery of future-proof broadband.

 

Commenting on the announcement Ignacio Loizaga, vice president of Marketing, Teldat said in a release that they want to be a reference in corporate WDM-PON CPE teaming with the world leader LG-Nortel.

 

Dr. Gerlas van den Hoven, chief executive officer of Genexis, said that the company also values participation in the WDM PON Ecosystem with LG-Nortel. They see this as a major stepping stone to significant growth of this new and exciting market space.

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