Motorola beefs up IPTV play

LAS VEGAS--Motorola today unveiled a series of enhancements to its access product line in a move that further blurs the line between its legacy solutions and the IPTV world.

The company, which has been chosen by Verizon to supply elements of its video network, is at Telecom 05 here with the beginnings of its GPON access platform. Relying on its existing AXS2000 optical line terminal as the base, Motorola is showing a new line card that can serve as many as 24 customers in a GPON configuration. At the same time, the company is bulking up the overall capacity of the OLT from 60 Gb/s to 120 Gb/s next year, said Steve Hersey, senior director of marketing for FTTP at Motorola.

“We’ve introduced a migration path that’s logical,” he said.

Additionally, Motorola is launching a new optical network terminal designed to support multi-dwelling unit deployments. The vendor is laying out some of its plans to migrate its existing FTTP line to gigabit PON.

The new ONT, which fits in with the ONT-1000 line, will support as many as 16 units in a hardened cabinet that typically would be placed on an outside wall. Like its other ONT-1000 units, the new MDU version comes with a variety of interfaces into the customer home. Initial interfaces will include Ethernet for those carriers wanting to use Category 5 cabling, or VDSL for those using category 3 wiring. Later iterations will integrate VDSL2, Hersey said.

The new product is a natural fit for the company’s FTTP lineup, he added.

“As you’re pulling fiber, you’re going to typically be passing a lot of MDUs,” Hersey said.