ADTRAN announced that operators have increasingly selected its XGS-PON/10G-EPON portfolio to take their network capabilities to 10G.

The ADTRAN Combo PON technology and software-defined access (SD-Access) approach are assisting the largest incumbent operators, regional service providers and community broadband providers in North America and Europe.

Recent research reports from Dell’Oro and Omdia highlight ADTRAN’s market impact and growth. Both research firms show ADTRAN as ranking #2 and #3 for XGS-PON OLT shipments in North America and in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) respectively on a four-quarter rolling basis.

Further, ADTRAN XGS-PON and 10G EPON shipments have reached an inflection point where 50 percent of its OLT ports deployed in this period were based on its open and disaggregated SD-Access platforms across a mix of large metro central offices, hardened street cabinets and strand-mounted remote OLTs.

“Omdia’s forecast predicts XGS-PON ONTs will increase dramatically compared to the total PON ONT market,” said Julie Kunstler, Chief Analyst for Broadband Access at Omdia. “ADTRAN’s 2021 XGS-PON ONT shipments reflect the adoption of XGS-PON ONTs.”

In 2021 alone, ADTRAN saw its 10G fiber access platforms broadly selected and deployed in nearly 100 U.S. regional and municipal networks, like Sonic, PAC Fiber and the City of Monroe, Ga.; three pan-European and national incumbent operators, like BT/Openreach; within EMEA’s ramping altnet market, almost 50 challengers like Netomnia; as well as Tier 1 cable MSOs and national incumbents in North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.

“ADTRAN is rapidly becoming the 10G fiber access supplier of choice to an industry that is realizing that 10G PON FTTH technology paired with AI-driven optimization is the best path to realizing its broadband goals,” said Robert Conger, Senior Vice President, Technology and Strategy at ADTRAN.