Calix announced this week the availability of the Calix E5-312 Active Ethernet (AE) platform and extended GPON reach on Calix C7 Multiservice Access Platform.
The Calix E5-312 delivers last-mile active Ethernet service to residential subscribers at distances of up to 60km while preserving service providers’ current investment in Calix’ ONTs. The flexibility of the Calix 700GX ONTs, which auto-detects and supports both AE and GPON from a common ONT, enables service providers to use the E5-312, or other Calix C- and E-Series platforms, to select the appropriate form factor and technology to match the service requirements of subscribers without the capital or operational expense of replacing the ONT.
Active Ethernet enables up to 1gbps dedicated symmetrical bandwidth, allowing service providers to serve high capacity residential customers. The E5-312 is an environmentally hardened, small-form-factor 1RU platform that enables deployment from the CO to the edge of the access network.
The platform has 12 GE SFP ports for symmetric 1GE AE services that support copper or bi-directional (single fiber) optical modules; the AE optics modules are Calix screened to ensure carrier-grade performance. Two standards-based 10GE SFP+ ports support ring and point-to-point topologies. The platform supports several access network topologies, including GE/AE aggregation, GE uplink aggregation, 10GE/GE network uplink, and link aggregation. Link aggregation provides logical NxGE link bonding for bandwidth expansion.
In addition, the E5-312 is fully managed by the Calix Management System (CMS), which provides a single network view and a common user experience independent of media type, protocol, or service.
The latest C7 software Release 6.1 enhances the Calix Extended Reach GPON solution, which when deployed with a pluggable OIM, doubles a service provider’s GPON service radius from 20km to 40km. For many service providers in rural, low-density areas, this capability can save $50,000 or more in each instance that this extra reach allows avoiding the installation and turn-up costs associated with reaching remote users beyond the traditional 20km limit.
