ZTE announced the launch of its simple distribution point unit (DPU) solution that helps carriers scale network capability through software defined networking (SDN).
Launched ahead of Broadband World Forum 2016, the DPU solution addresses the unified management and service provisioning complications brought about by hybrid fibre to the home (FTTH) and fibre to the distribution point (FTTdp) scenarios, ZTE said.
The solution is extremely viable for Europe’s long-term coexistence of copper and fibre networks, the company claims.
The development of bandwidth-hungry services, as a result of big video, is bringing fibre closer to end users; while the development of G.Fast prolongs the life of copper infrastructure under certain conditions.
Despite copper networks still being in use, carriers are looking for simple and transparent ways to maintain FTTdp networks and, most importantly, a smooth and easy migration to software defined networks similar to that of FTTH.
ZTE ‘s DPU solution first simplifies the distribution point, then specifies the optical line termination (OLT) to be the control point for the access domain; lastly it specifies the OLT to be the interface for SDN deployment as well as the gateway for open network and data traffic control.
Cai Jingzhe, VP of ZTE, said, “Our FTTdp solutions have been adopted commercially in Japan as well as other international markets. With decades of enriched research and development experience in fibre and copper technologies, ZTE is committed to driving the development of access networks in order to provide ultra-fast, safe, open and simplified access networks to carriers.”
Rajani Baburajan
