SEOUL, KOREA – A new partnership between LG-Nortel and Telamon will allow North American carriers to easily and cost-effectively deliver end-user Internet services at up to 1 Gbps.
LG-Nortel, the joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel, signed a seller agreement with solutions provider Telamon to distribute its Wavelength Division Multiplexing – Passive Optical Networking (WDM-PON) Ethernet Access to help meet demand for fiber-optic access solutions as carriers increasingly roll out fibre-to-the-business/home/basestation (FTTx) services to residential and business customers.
"Demand for FTTx services in North America is skyrocketing as customers expect more from their on-line lifestyles," said Telamon president Gary Bloehs, in the press release. "LG-Nortel’s powerful range of WDM-PON solutions will help our carrier customers meet those expectations with a fully-featured, cost-effective, end-to-end solution that enables high-volume delivery of ultra-fast Ethernet-class Internet services over fibre-optic networks."
The LG-Nortel portfolio uses the WDM-PON architecture to extend the cost and performance advantages of carrier-grade Ethernet to the ‘first mile’, and overcome traffic jams caused by bandwidth-hungry applications such as HD video-on-demand.
WDM-PON makes it possible to divide a single optical fibre into multiple wavelengths, each capable of carrying the same bandwidth that previously required an entire fibre. This reduces the cost of new FTTx rollouts, speeds deployment time and shortens the return on investment period for carriers deploying FTTx, the release detailed.
