Harmonic announced that the company will demonstrate its latest fiber broadband innovations for high-speed broadband service delivery at Fiber Connect 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. Harmonic’s market-leading cOS™ virtualized broadband platform and versatile portfolio of network edge devices enable service providers to simplify and save on multigigabit fiber deployments and upgrades.
“Growth and profitability for fiber broadband service operators hinges on time to market and optimizing costs,” said Dan Gledhill, senior vice president, broadband fiber at Harmonic. “At Fiber Connect we’ll showcase our unique fiber broadband solutions that provide unparalleled flexibility for operators to reduce capex today and ensure expanded capacity for the future in any density, over any distance and to any location.”
Harmonic will highlight several fiber broadband innovations at Fiber Connect that enable service providers to:
- Streamline fiber deployments: Harmonic will demonstrate the power of its market-leading cOS platform to ease control and management of network edge devices, ensuring high performance on the network, enhancing the quality of experience for subscribers. With easy to install, versatile R-OLT and shelf modules, Harmonic’s fiber solutions enable fast time to market of services and unlock savings on operations, construction and real estate.
- Optimize equipment capital and interoperability: Harmonic’s fiber solutions offer an open approach to ONU/ONT selection, allowing operators to adopt the customer premise equipment of their choice. This unique approach enables operators to break free from vendor lock-in, benefit from competitive ONU/ONT pricing and simplify network evolution.
- Enable future-readiness and simplify upgrades: Harmonic’s cOS platform enables upgrades at the speed of software with a single solution for GPON, XGS-PON, Combo PON, 25G and beyond. Harmonic will showcase how operators can cost-effectively address rural, suburban, urban and MDU deployments with a single solution.
- Simplify QoE end-to-end: Harmonic will demonstrate multivendor fiber interoperability with Incognito, Kaon Broadband, Sercomm and Bitdefender. The demonstration will showcase Harmonic’s cOS platform and Pier OLT shelf, Incognito’s Fiber Service Orchestration solution and ONU/ONTs from multiple vendors, illustrating how to achieve best-in-class fiber service from the headend to the home.
Showcasing Expertise at the Fiber Connect Conference
Harmonic’s Dan Gledhill will share his insights during the panel “Access Backhaul: Ensuring FTTH Networks Can Back It Up, Up, Up” on Tuesday, July 30, at 1:30 p.m.
Todd Lattanzi, regional vice president, fiber broadband business development at Harmonic will present “Unlocking Your Network” on Tuesday, July 30, at 4:40 p.m. in the Fiber Theater.
SOURCE: PRNewswire