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Why Service Providers Choose OpenPON
- Vendor Independence
- Protect your deployments from long lead times, supply shortages, and unpredictable availability.
- Network Customization
- Mix and match best-in-class components—so you’re never held back if one vendor falls behind.
- Competitive Pricing
- Tap an open-market approach for the most aggressive hardware rates and no hidden fees.
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FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
OpenPON is an excellent alternative to closed PON architectures. It provides vendor-neutral solutions that allow service providers to mix and match equipment from multiple manufacturers, avoiding vendor lock-in and enabling cost-effective, scalable deployments.
OpenPON is a new advanced architecture for PON. It was designed to improve on the original older PON designs and change the way service providers can deliver PON. More modular, flexible, lower cost, and it’s overall interoperability, OpenPON is the next generation PON architecture, implemented by AT&T, Charter Communications, and Comcast, that has being offered by leading service providers such as Cisco, Harmonic, Juniper, and Ciena.
OpenPON’s vendor-neutral architecture allows you to source key components of a PON solution such as distribution (access) switches, Optical Network Terminals (ONTs), and Customer Premise Equipment (CPEs) from a wide range of manufacturers, ensuring greater availability and reducing reliance on a single supplier. This flexibility mitigates delays caused by supply chain challenges.
OpenPON offers a pay-as-you-grow model, enabling operators to scale their networks incrementally without large upfront costs. Also, OpenPON leverages newer more efficient architecture that use less expensive equipment and delivers high performance to cost ratios. Even more importantly, OpenPON’s delivers lower operational costs as its management software, analytics, and support costs are much less than comparable closed end solutions.
With OpenPON, service providers can deploy the lastest XGS-PON technology using compact, cost-effective solutions like pluggable OLTs, which simplify infrastructure and lower deployment costs while delivering high-speed fiber connectivity. Implementing XGS-PON today enables service providers to future-proof their Fiber infrastructures to meet the ever growing need for bandwidth.
OpenPON simplifies the migration from GPON to XGS-PON by supporting interoperability with existing network equipment. The use of a co-existence module (also called a Combiner) enables the parallel operation differing PON architectures of GPON and XGS-PON. This ensures a seamless transition with minimal disruption, enabling faster adoption of next-generation technologies.