WEB EXTRA: Fast forward: Randy Eisenach, market development manager, Fujitsu Network Communications

Fujitsu Network Communications threw its hat into the Gigabit passive optical networking ring in early February, pledging more than 100 employees to the market in the hope of winning a coveted Bell contract and more. Randy Eisenach, market development manager for Fujitsu’s access products, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins recently about all things GPON.

On Fujitsu’s “hybrid” GPON platform: Today, a typical PON network splits a single wavelength up to 32 times as it goes downstream to customers. With our hybrid approach, you can push multiple wavelengths using [coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (CWDM)] down into that passive splitter. And that splitter gets upgraded to [become] a combination passive splitter/CWDM coupler. You can define which homes and how many homes you want to divide on a per-wavelength basis. Early on, it may be initially focused just on businesses. You decide how many you want to put on a wavelength: 2, 4 or 8 residential homes or businesses. In total, you’re going to push eight times the amount of downstream bandwidth into that service area.