Adtran Expanding NG-PON2's Applicability for Gigabit Broadband

Adtran is expanding NG-PON2’s applicability for gigabit broadband beyond the smaller business and backhaul market to the wider market by removing concerns of future bandwidth exhaustion or quality of service issues, the company said in an email Wednesday. NG-PON2 is a next-generation fiber to the home or fiber to the premises access standard that will enable service providers more scale for their FTTH networks to better support gigabit service as it grows from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps, it said in a blog post. This is the first time both residential FTTH customers and early business adopters of this premium technology can be immediately supported on a single, common access architecture, it said. Adtran is streamlining the high-cost areas of 10 Gbps PON design with flexible optics architecture with multiple “cost vs. capability” options, including fixed wavelength 10 Gbps optics, the company said.