Alcatel-Lucent is using this year’s Broadband World Forum in London to introduce new products to its Vplus and TWDM-PON (Time and Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical) portfolios.
The vendor says it’s the first company to make Vplus products commercially available. It intends the technology to serve as a stopgap of sorts between VDSL2 and G.fast technologies.
Vplus is being standardized as the VDSL2 35b profile and can be added to existing VDSL2 vectoring networks. Vplus can give operators aggregate speeds of 200 Mbps and more over traditional copper telephone lines at distances up to 500 meters, and 300 Mbps on loops shorter than 250 meters.
Vplus offers higher bitrates than VDSL2 and longer distances than G.fast.
Alcatel-Lucent’s new Vplus portfolio for operators includes line cards (NDLT-J/K) for 7302 ISAM FD-16 and 7330 ISAM FD-8 shelves with Vplus (35b) and VDSL2 (17a) support as well as the new 7367 ISAM SX-48U micro-node, supporting 48 vectored VDSL2 (17a) or Vplus (35b) ports with a sealed and passively cooled enclosure.
The 7368 ISAM CPE F-010G-P completes the solution and eases migration with support for vectored Vplus (35b), G.fast and VDSL2 (17a) uplinks.
Existing System Level Vectoring processor cards (NDPS-B) can be reused for Vplus 7302 ISAM FD-16 and 7330 ISAM FD-8 shelves and existing 7363 ISAM MX-6 micro-nodes with VDSL2 vectoring line cards (RDLT-B/C and RDLS-A) support Vplus with a software upgrade.
In addition to technology upgrades for DSL deployments, Alcatel-Lucent is addressing fiber deployments with additions to its TWDM-PON portfolio.
The company announced a new Optical Network Unit (ONU) for home deployments delivering ultra-broadband to residential users. The new ONU supports 1Gbps and 10Gbps services on a fixed or tunable wavelength.
Alcatel-Lucent is also enhancing its fiber-to-the-home platform to enable up to 2.4 Terabits per second (Tbps) of switching capacity and 360Gbps of uplink capacity and adding new features to its Network Management system to help simplify management and provisioning of GPON and TWDM technologies running over the same fiber network.
