WDM-PON ECOSYSTEM
OVERVIEW
WDM-PON is gaining industry recognition as the technology-of-choice for next generation access solutions. Service providers are recognizing that next generation Business and Residential services and Access Infrastructure for Mobile backhaul are essential markets to obtain new revenue and be competitive in maintaining existing and attracting customers. With a rich set of features including higher bandwidth, security and scalability to FTTH/FTTB/FTTP applications, the WDM-PON solution enables construction of a converged access network architecture enabling operators to offer residential, business and wireless backhaul services based on one common technology.
The WDM-PON Ecosystem consists of key equipment and component vendors offering a single point of access to the latest information on WDM-PON user experience, best practice and real-life business case examples. This informal group of industry leaders are committed as to the promotion of WDM-PON in fiber based network applications, advancing activity in a number of Standards bodies, and work towards practical interoperability of their members solutions.
Interoperability of hardware and software solutions is often the most significant barrier to wide-scale adoption of a new technology in a Ethernet fiber environment. The commitment of our members to interoperability testing is intended to ease the burden of pre-testing and shorten the evaluation cycle for our solutions. We also engage in frequent public interoperability demonstrations to show the viability of WDM-PON in real networks, running real applications.
BENEFITS OF JOINING
- • Participation in Ecosystem interoperability testing activities provides proof to the industry of the ease of multi-vendor WDM-PON
- solution deployments.
- • Interaction with other members produces to a body of knowledge and a set of best practices, useful in establishing development
- priorities, common specifications, and encouraging Standards development.
- • Membership enables access to the WDM-PON Innovation Centre where participants can test their solutions in an advanced lab that
- simulates an actual network environment and reduce the risks associated with deploying individual solutions.
- • Members can leverage our common marketing outreach initiatives and thus achieve a superior ROI for their marketing spend.
- The Ecosystem ensures a coordinated message to the stakeholders in our industry along with efficient coverage of WDM-PON
- technologies in the industry's leading events.
- • Consistent and powerful messaging is provided to the industry via a variety of published collateral (whitepapers, journal articles),
- as well as live presentations (webinars, panels).