GFAST™ Gigabit Ethernet Applications

 

GFAST Fractional Gigabit Ethernet

The GFAST Fractional Gigabit Ethernet products give service providers a cost-effective way to increase Ethernet service delivery capacity and service bandwidth. By replacing point-to-point Ethernet solutions with the GFAST point-to-multipoint system, service providers can increase bandwidth per fiber to 1 gigabit Ethernet, and can choose to offer new, higher-capacity Ethernet services, add additional customers without deploying additional fiber, or simply increase the utilization of fiber, CO space and power. In addition to increasing capacity, service providers gain signficant operational benefits—the GFAST system opens the door to remote provisioning of new services, therefore reducing truck rolls.

Increasing Service Bandwidth

An existing 100 Mbps service is upgraded to support up to 1 gigabit Ethernet using GFAST Fractional GigE solution.

Adding Customers

An existing solution provided 100 Mbps service to one customer over a fiber pair, With the GFAST Fractional GigE solution the service provider can now serve up to 10 customers on one fiber, or 20 on the original pair.

Increasing Fiber Utilization

An existing 100 Mbps Ethernet bridge is replaced by the GFAST OLT at the CO and GFAST ONUs and a GFAST Splitter at the customer premise, increasing capacity per fiber to 1 gigabit.

Increasing Service Delivery Density

An existing 100 Mbps Ethernet bridge is replaced by a GFAST OLT and GFAST Splitter at the CO and a low-cost GFAST ONU at the customer premise, increasing per-shelf capacity to 160 customers.

GFAST Gigabit Ethernet/PON

Broadband Residential Service

The GFAST GigE/PON products provide a cost-effective way to deliver and grow broadband services for residential customers. VLAN-based traffic classification and shaping provides effective and efficient bandwidth allocation and management for a broad array of services.

Broadband Business Service

Integrated encryption makes GFAST GigE/PON a secure and robust solution for business services. Extensive service definition capability allows service providers to offer not only voice, data and video services, but also a full suite of information, communication and entertainment services with service quality levels matched to individual service requirements. Multidrop flexiblity easily supports both individual and multitenant offices on a single fiber run.

Broadband Services Integration

For service providers considering new business models and innovative integrated services, the GFAST PON ONU’s flexible architecture provides a unique opportunity. For example, service providers combining power meter data collection and broadband service delivery can deploy the GFAST ONU/P, which combines automated meter reading (AMR) communications with channelized IP services. The GFAST meter extension ring provides an externally accessible optical end-point for direct plug-and-play to the existing meters and new automated meters with Ethernet interfaces.