May 31, 2006 Livermore, CA -- EPON systems vendor Alloptic, Inc. has announced its support for the recently formed IEEE 10G EPON study group. A 10G EPON study group was formed within the IEEE 802.3 working group at the March 2006 Denver plenary meeting.
"Alloptic was a founding member of the original IEEE EFM working group and our support for the 10G EPON standard is building on that legacy," said Tom Warner, CTO of Alloptic. "The study group will be building on the rapid success Ethernet-based PON systems have had around the globe. 10-Gbit/sec components are starting to exhibit the same compelling economic curve that its 1-Gbit/sec predecessors experienced."
"10G EPON is applicable in multiple environments to support bandwidth-intensive applications that will require fast, reliable, scalable, first-mile connections," said Shane Eleniak, vice president of marketing and business development for Alloptic. "Immediate applications include high-density MDU [multiple-dwelling unit] applications, business Ethernet services, the delivery of VDSL2 service, and wireless backhaul. Additionally, the rapid growth in the number HDTV sets being purchased and the desire by service providers to support multiple streams of HDTV per household in the future raises the obvious need for a seamless EPON evolution to meet these foreseen requirements."
10-Gigabit Ethernet has received a rapid uptake in corporate data centers and it provides a logical step for the last mile to meet the growing bandwidth needs of businesses and consumer demands for bandwidth-intensive content, the company believes.