LG-Nortel, a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel, announced the WDM-PON Ecosystem initiative to help telecom operators implement next-generation FTTP infrastructure by providing a framework for the deployment of next-generation fiber-based access networks, including core network solutions and CPE solutions.
LG-Nortel's WDM-PON Ecosystem will bring together industry hardware and software vendors as well as component and tool suppliers to participate in creating interoperable WDM-PON solutions. So far, Teldat, Genexis and Comtrend have pledged interoperability of their CPE solutions by joining ecosystem.
Designing solutions within the WDM PON ecosystem will ensure tight interoperability between equipment from LG-Nortel and CPE providers like Genexis, Comtrend and Teldat. This will simplify interoperability testing and shorten rollout times so operators can deploy next-generation FTTx and fiber backbone infrastructure more cost-effectively and efficiently.
"End users' insatiable appetite for bandwidth, driven by a growing range of network-intensive new applications, is pushing service providers to find new ways to deliver enough bandwidth," said Peter MacKinnon, chairman, LG-Nortel. "By partnering with leading technology providers to build a standards-based, interoperable WDM-PON Ecosystem, we will take the complexity out of FTTP rollouts – and, in so doing, speed up the delivery of future-proof broadband that lets customers realize the benefits of a new generation of services."
The WDM-PON Ecosystem builds on the expertise LG-Nortel gained when it acquired Novera Optics, a provider of WDM-PON solutions, in 2008. In May 2009, LG-Nortel and ETRI, a government-backed Korean IT research and development institute, announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote global standardization of WDM-PON technology. The agreement focuses on the development of green broadcasting and communications technology, including shared research and development and joint actions for global marketing.
