Business need
Service providers increasingly need to build out broadband infrastructure cost-effectively to add new services, expand coverage areas, create new revenue streams and defend against competitive threats from cable operators. By more efficiently aggregating high-growth broadband services—including DSL, Fiber-to-the-Home and Fiber-to-the Premises offerings—you can generate incremental revenues and more cost-effectively serve new markets and customers. In addition, by converging your legacy ATM DSLAM aggregation onto an Ethernet-optimized aggregation platform you can lower costs, consolidate networks, and provide a migration path to new services.Challenges
Legacy aggregation equipment is expensive to deploy and manage, and not designed for the scalability challenges you face today. New approaches are needed that allow cost-effective scaling of existing Layer 2 networks without compromising QoS or reliability—while simultaneously allowing you to support ATM, Ethernet and IP/MPLS-based aggregation methods.Solution
New broadband aggregation systems let service providers grow to support revenue-generating service demand. Lower-cost and smaller-footprint platforms offering greater scalability can allow you to more efficiently pack subscriber traffic to save on backhaul facility transmissions costs and broaden your geographic coverage. By supporting both ATM and Ethernet/IP DSLAM aggregation on a single converged platform, you can retire legacy equipment and leverage the operational and capital economics of Ethernet without stranding legacy DSL existing customers.Ciena's offerings
Ciena offers multiservice Carrier Ethernet platforms that provide maximum flexibility for helping service providers expand coverage and deliver the ideal service mix for increasing revenues and profits. You can more efficiently use existing trunks and expand to support additional services. Our platforms offer compact sizes and industry-leading scalability and system availability, and Ciena provides concurrent support for ATM, Ethernet and IP/MPLS—all on a single platform so you can achieve converged DSLAM aggregation. You can serve more customers using less rack space at a lower cost with higher levels of reliability—while reducing transport costs over 50 percent. Ciena allows you to deploy right-sized solutions based on customer demand and service area density, enables leveraging of existing provisioning and OSS systems. We offer a flexible family of multiservice edge switching platforms that evolve your network while delivering the scalability and reliability you need to efficiently aggregate broadband services today.Benefits
- Serve more customers at less cost and space and realize dramatic improvements in reliability, performance and scalability
- Converge ATM and Ethernet/IP DSLAM aggregation on a single platform
- Reduce ongoing backhaul transmission costs for broadband aggregation networks
- Generate new revenues based on next-generation DSL services and increase average-revenue-per-user levels
- Scale your broadband services without compromise by offering higher-speed services with QoS commitments
- Enable migration of existing customers to new networks and services
