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Telco Systems Launches Live Active Ethernet Portal for Growing Demand for Broadband Internet Access

• Dedicated Bandwidth- Active Ethernet offers subscribers up to 1000Mbps based on their individual requirements and differential services for residential and business customers in the same area. With PON, no service levels are allocated and bandwidth is shared between users.
  
• Pay-As-You Grow- In PON architectures, network change is complicated and limiting making it difficult to scale or redesign an existing PON network. Active Ethernet, on the other hand is scalable - components can be added as the network and subscriber penetration increases without changing the network design. New subscribers can be easily added within the 100km geographic area at minimal cost.
  
• Interoperability and Standards-based: Unlike PON, Active Ethernet supports the IEEE Ethernet standard allowing for interoperability between different vendors’ equipment without the need for adjustments or interoperability tests. Equipment can be added and ‘mixed-and- matched’ from various manufacturers. With PON technologies, though they are based on standards, deployments with equipment from multiple manufacturers’ are sometimes not possible. As a result, generally only one vendor's equipment can be used in a passive FTTx deployment.
  
• Shrinking Cost Differentials – While once one of PON’s strongest arguments against Active Ethernet, the cost comparison between the two technologies continues to tighten. Because Ethernet is standards-based and is used universally, the cost of Ethernet-based products and components continues to decrease rapidly, with current installation costs for passive FTTx components on par with those of Active Ethernet.
  
• All IP Network - Unlike a passive approach, traffic running over an Active Ethernet FTTx solution is pure IP, which greatly simplifies design, deployment, management and maintenance issues. No protocol conversion is required, and network management of all network elements as well as billing and authentication is simplified with the ability to use off-the-shelf products that are based on the same technology.
  
• Triple-Play Ready - Active Ethernet networks have standards-based mechanisms to support voice, video and data services that assure the service characteristics and quality of service. While providing triple play with PON networks is possible, it is not as integral a part of PON technology as it is in an Active Ethernet solution. Nor is the control and management of a PON network as straight forward as in active Ethernet.