May 23, 2005 Portsmouth, NH -- Pannaway Technologies today announced the general availability of its Fiber Broadband Access Switch (BAS) and Fiber Residential Gateway NID (RGN) for FTTH deployments. The company says its end-to-end FTTH platform has been in customer field trials since Q1 of 2005, and is among the industry's first optical line termination (OLT) systems to feature 10-Gbit/sec Ethernet uplink capabilities.
According to the company, with its FTTH platform, telecommunications service providers can offer services including carrier-class VoIP, high-speed Internet, and video-based services such as video-on-demand and HDTV, over a single broadband connection. The company says the platform's active Ethernet technology provides a higher bandwidth alternative to PON while increasing network resiliency, reducing deployment time, and simplifying management and troubleshooting.
"Telecom carriers are finding themselves in an increasingly competitive market for broadband adoption, where the importance of transport flexibility has become paramount," asserts Mike Skubisz, CTO of Pannaway. "Our new FTTH products enable our customers to future-proof their network infrastructure investments by ensuring that future bandwidth requirements for emerging subscriber applications can be met without the need to rip-and-replace existing equipment."
The company calls its Fiber BAS an 802.3ah Ethernet in the first mile (EFM)-compliant network access and internetworking switch that manages the converged traffic of up to 24 of the company's Fiber RGNs in a single, rack-mounted package.
According to the company, features of the Fiber BAS include: (24) 100Base-BX single strand bi-directional ports; (4) 10/1000 ports and (4) SFP ports; an xpansion slot for dual, redundant 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplinks; wire-speed performance on all ports; an industrial-hardened 1 RU design (-40°C to +65°C), and a Web-based management interface for automated provisioning and maintenance.
The company says its Fiber RGN is an all-in-one-box device that sits outside a customer's premises , o provide a single point of access for any existing telephone device. The company says the weather-resistant RGN replaces the telephone NID, FTTH Internet modem, and premise switch/router.
According to the company, features of the RGN include: (6) 10/100 Ethernet ports; two independent digitized voice lines featuring a full suite of call features; primary line VoIP support for Lifeline E 911 and CALEA; digitized "Lifeline" support for Emergency Stand Alone (ESA) capability; a flexible design for scaleable deployment options; an industrial-hardened casing for protection against all weather conditions; an integrated switch/router providing NAT and firewall support; a secure Web interface, and support for 802.3ah EFM standards.