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Occam introduced the BLC 6314 10GigE Transport and OLT blade for the company’s BLC 6000™ Broadband Loop Carrier System
May 15, 2006
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Occam Networks ® Inc. (OTCBB: OCNW), a supplier of innovative Ethernet- and IP-based loop carrier equipment to telecommunications companies, today introduced the BLC 6314 10GigE Transport and Optical Line Termination (OLT) blade for the company’s BLC 6000™ Broadband Loop Carrier System. The BLC 6314 blade adds dual 10 Gigabit Optical Ethernet and multiple 1 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to the BLC 6000 providing symmetrical bandwidth that enables Telcos to create very high capacity access networks with 10 Gigabit Ethernet resilient transport rings at a fraction of the cost of SONET-based OC 192.
There are two primary applications for the BLC 6314:
FTTP OLT: Combined with Occam’s BLC 6312 blade, the BLC 6000 becomes a high-capacity FTTP Optical Line Termination system with integrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet transport. The BLC 6000 can serve more than 250 subscribers with up to one gigabit of full-duplex bandwidth.
Higher capacity access network aggregation: Utilizing Occam’s Ethernet Protection Switching (EPS), the BLC 6314 provides resilient 10 Gigabit Ethernet aggregation rings for BLC 6000-based copper and fiber access networks. This capacity is especially critical for IP TV networks, which face increasing bandwidth demands driven by HDTV and growing subscriber take rates of video on demand (VoD).
“Occam products have always used Ethernet to deliver a wide range of telco services because it delivers a significant cost advantage over competitive OCx technologies, “ said Russ Sharer, vice president of sales and marketing for Occam. “With the addition of the BLC 6314 blade, the BLC 6000 System provides greater scalability and capacity for telcos who are delivering IP TV and other Triple Play services.”
The BLC 6314 OLT blade is a high-performance Ethernet switch with two 10Gbps Ethernet small form factor pluggable optical subscriber ports to provide the BLC 6000 System with direct active fiber subscriber access distribution, and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet Intelligent Blade Interconnect Architecture (IBIA) copper ports whose distributed processing intelligence and unique blade interconnection system provides the flexibility to economically deploy the BLC 6000 System in low, medium or high density applications. The new blade also includes 16 1Gbps Ethernet ports that when populated with small form factor pluggable (SFP) lasers support optical subscriber drops for homes or businesses.
“The BLC 6314 extends Occam’s leadership in the Gigabit Ethernet fiber to the premise (FTTP) market,” Sharer commented. “The BLC 6000 remains the industry’s only product capable of delivering up to one gigabit of active Ethernet bandwidth for residential or business services.”
Occam Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: OCNW)
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