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Social networking and new media have created unprecedented expectations for personalization and interactivity in entertainment and business communications. As applications bloom to address the market opportunities, they are putting pressure on limited bandwidth and driving user demand for higher bandwidth access technologies. Fiber solutions offer carriers a means to deliver orders of magnitude more bandwidth while reducing their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Zhone equipment provides carriers FTTx solution options for strategically introducing Active Ethernet and GPON while ensuring a migration path to emerging 10G access technologies.

Multi-Service packages are critical to carriers’ success today. Service differentiation and time-to-market advantages accrue to carriers who can present their customers with new solutions that combine familiar voice, data and video services for compelling applications in a competitive market. Multi-service implementations require an architecture that anticipates multiple data types and protocols while ensuring interoperable standards-based network elements. Zhone’s pioneering work in multi-service solutions with its SLMS architecture has provided its customers with tremendous CAPEX and OPEX savings along with time-to-market advantage with new, revenue-generating applications and services.

Zhone offers leading Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) solutions based on IEEE 802.3ah industry standards. Zhone has offered industry-leading Ethernet over Copper (EoC) solutions for many years. Ethernet in essence has significant benefits including relative ubiquity, loop bonding and high capacity symmetrical capabilities, seamless LAN-to-WAN connectivity, and ease of deployment. Zhone has worked on products providing integrated EoC across the entire family of MSAN and DSLAM systems. In addition, Zhone supports standards based EFM (802.3ah) as well as legacy EoC solutions across CPE products.

America’s 2020 Broadband Vision is aimed at improving US global competitiveness, generating new jobs, harnessing innovation and, above all, strengthening America’s position as a global leader in the 21st century. At the heart of the 2020 Broadband Vision is the goal of providing 100 million households with affordable 100 Mbps service and ensuring affordable 1 Gbps service in every American community by the year 2020. As the leading US manufacturer of high performance access equipment, Zhone solutions deliver compelling 100 Mbps and 1 Gbps solutions today. Zhone stands ready to work with US carriers to leverage stimulus funding to bring the promise of the 2020 Broadband Vision to their local communities.

Zhone FiberCell, an extension of Zhone’s market-leading FTTx solutions, is a carrier-class mobile backhaul solution designed to address increased bandwidth needs in today’s data-centric service environment. Service Providers currently utilize T1/E1 lines for backhaul which results in extremely high monthly re-occurring T1/E1 fees and service charges for mobile backhaul besides not being adequate for the bandwidth requirements. With Zhone FiberCell solution, Zhone customers are benefited with the option of copper and/or fiber based Mobile Backhaul options providing cost-effective backhaul bandwidth upgrades.

ZHONE EZ TOUCH PROVISIONING – an extension of the Zhone Management System (ZMS) – is the next-generation carrier-class network management and provisioning solution for SHDSL EFM CPEs (ETHX) and non-OMCI GPON and Active Ethernet zNID ONTs. As networks are getting more complex and expensive to manage, service providers are looking at ways and means to reduce their recurring operational expenditure (OPEX) by minimizing truck rolls and manual subscriber-specific features and, effectively, automating the service provisioning functionality.