Fiber to the Home is the only way to gain the ultimate competitive advantage in North America, Latin America and South America. It is the answer to the question, 'What Next?' We hear at Versa Technology must move forward and provide its service providers with the bandwidth they need to give the end user even more features than they could ever want.
Chino, California (PRWEB) March 19, 2009
Versa Technology (http://www.versatek.com), a leading provider of last mile communications including Switches and DSLAM's, is pleased to announce the development and release of a new product line, GEPON. The Versa Technology GEPON solution can support everything providers will need for FTTH (Fiber to the home) and FTTB (Fiber to the Building). GEPON can provide up to one gigabit to the subscriber over passive optical network and also allow for CATV overlay.
Versa Technology's Gigabit Ethernet PON platform for the Single Home and MTU/DMU/MHU is comprised of the Co-side concentrator, VX-EP3120 and customer-side ONT (Optical Network Terminal) or ONU (Optical Network Unit). The VX-EP3120 concentrates traffic from a maximum of 20 PONs and 16 or 32 ONTs/ONUs that provide up to four 10/100Mb Ethernet ports that connect to any gigabit Ethernet switch or router. The Versa Technology GEPON product line can run up to 20Km at the maximum speed up to 1.25Gbps, which adds additional revenue generation gear for developers and service providers.
The Versa Technology GEPON "Shelf" type of CO-side concentrator enables a wide variety of deployment options of FTTP from customer's premises to carrier's office. It guarantees competitive access performance beyond 100Mbps bandwidth per subscriber necessary for multi channel high resolution video delivery as well as high speed data and toll quality voice with RF video to all customers on the PON.
The Versa Technology GEPON product line secures a migration path to the premises for IP-centric services such as VLAN, multicasting, link aggregation, multi-layer filtering, rate limiting, class of service (CoS) and quality of service (QoS). Robust and open web-based management system provides easily the capabilities necessary for operation administration, maintenance and provisioning.
Cost effective optical distribution for single home as well as MDU
The Versa Technology GEPON concentrator for installing at the Central Office or Business Park securing cost effectiveness through lower cost optical distribution and less space in its installed office. Also it can support hotel, office, MDU owners and BLEC (Building Local Exchange Carriers) to deliver converged IP services using the VX-EP246 Optical Network Terminal for Copper Distribution.
Future-proof multi-layer data and RF video features
The Versa Technology GEPON Chassis supports 802.1q Tag VLAN, Mac Address Limitation per Bridgeport, IEEE802.1p, 802.1ad link aggregation and IP multicasting for more value generation. It also provides multi-layer features beyond Layer 2 that future proofs services. The fully mounted platform is capable of RF video along with high-definition video over IP.
Modular and expansible architecture
The Versa Technology GEPON Chassis is designed for modular architecture with 2-PON per slot enabling expansion to 20-PON. This rack mountable chassis can take 640 FTTH subscribers and be stacked and managed easily across thousands of subscribers.
User-friendly management interface
The Versa Technology GEPON product supports robust performance as utilizing OAM for link monitoring, loopback and fault indication with SNMP, and provides Web-based GUI for ease of use.
Joe Taylor, Director of Business Development at Versa Technology has been listening to customers for years try to figure out how to gain an edge on cable operators and incumbents "Fiber to the Home is the only way to gain the ultimate competitive advantage in North America, Latin America and South America. It is the answer to the question, 'What Next?' We hear at Versa Technology must move forward and provide its service providers with the bandwidth they need to give the end user even more features than they could ever want." He also had this to say: "While copper is still viable in a lot of situations, we have to listen to our customers and be able to provide them with a solution that will ensure competitiveness for 20 years to come."
GEPON ONT
The Versa Technology Line up of GEPON ONT is quite impressive, including both indoor and outdoor Optical Line Terminals. This allows providers the ability to provide both single home or MDU environments with FTTH so that they can deploy a single solution across a large region. The Versa Technology GEPON ONT also supports IEEE802.3ah MPCP, 802.1d, IGMP Snooping, and 802.1q VLAN.
About Versa Technology
Versa Technology, located in Chino, California, is a company that provides both fiber and copper for last mile solution. With worldwide offices in Korea, China and the United States, Versa Technology has taken advantage of the global marketplace to grow at an amazing pace. Versa Technology provides a wide range of copper solutions, giving service providers the choice of ADSL2+, VDSL and VDSL2. Versa Technology also provides FTTH Solutions to providers looking to deploy next generation fiber optic networks. Versa Technology is one of the few companies in the world that can provide the complete last mile solution.
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