Enabling Next-Generation FTTX Deployments

The past decade saw dramatic traffic growth in public and private communications networks, such as those used by long-distance and local exchange service providers, as well as specialized networks, such as those used by Internet service providers. Driving this growth has been the rapid adoption of data-intensive applications such as Internet access, e-commerce, e-mail, Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP), video conferencing, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and the movement of large blocks of stored data across networks. As a result, telecom service providers and Enterprises are facing the need to evolve their networks to support these new services. In addition, the growth of the Internet has created the need to manage, move, and store increasing amounts of mission-critical information. This has resulted in increasing demand for data storage systems and changes in the way companies are interconnecting these systems.

To address these challenges, communications service providers (i.e. Carriers) and Enterprises have started to deploy equipment that is capable of more efficiently handling and transporting the various types of traffic required by these new services. They are also upgrading their infrastructure to serve the variety of unique communications standards and protocols that deliver and process data. Increasingly, these new applications and services are delivered using Ethernet and Internet protocol technologies.

The emergence of new data-intensive applications such as video-on-demand, IPTV and next-generation wireless services including video and data centers is expected to create substantial traffic growth through the communications infrastructure. This is expected to drive the deployment of additional equipment to meet capacity needs, as well as new networks with new capabilities to simplify and reduce costs

The requirements to deploy networks that service these new data intensive applications will spur demand for systems that augment and evolve, rather than replace, existing equipment in the infrastructure. These networks will move from systems based on a variety of protocols to systems based primarily on Ethernet technologies. These will provide high-growth opportunities for silicon solutions that address these new systems based on so-called Carrier Ethernet and Converged Ethernet technologies. Service providers and Enterprises are driven to provide more bandwidth To do this, they must increase the speed at which their networks operate.

Vitesse's FTTX Technology Ecosystem is a network of leading technology companies to collectively address and advance development of next-generation, end-to-end, passive optical networking (PON) systems for Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and Fiber-to-the-Building (FTTB). Together, we're making the transition to higher speeds over existing infrastructure and media today's reality.