Wave7 Adds Compact OLT

ORLANDO -- Wave7 Optics, a leading supplier of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) equipment for residential and business services, today announced here at the Fiber-to-the-Home Council’s Conference and Expo the addition of the Compact Optical Line Terminal (COLT) to its industry leading Trident7™ product line.

The Trident7 COLT is the industry’s only temperature hardened OLT requiring only 2 RU (“rack units”) of space for deployment. These unique design features allow network operators to deploy the COLT in inexpensive, non-climatically controlled field cabinets to serve small pockets of up to 256 subscribers, assuming typical 32-way PON splits. The COLT can be deployed up to 70 km away from either a Trident7 Universal OLT or third-party multilayer switch in a central office or head-end, and the COLT can also extend network reach and push resiliency closer to the network edge.

As such, the COLT is ideally suited to support deployments with smaller independent telephone companies who have a smaller base of potential subscribers and still want to deploy PON, or in the Asian market where the COLT can be installed in high rise MDUs to serve apartment dwellers.

“It’s not always economically practical to deploy a full OLT that can support thousands of customer premises,” said Emmanuel Vella, Chief Marketing Officer for Wave7 Optics. “If a network operator needs to serve a small or remote area of subscribers, then the Trident7 COLT provides a cost-effective means to do so without any compromise to the services provided.”

Wave7 Optics Inc.