First FTTH Enabled Residential Community In Egypt Empowered By Zhone Technologies And Palm Hills Developments
Industry-leading MXK(TM) solution providing state-of-the-art entertainment services to more than 7,000 residences in new real estate development
Oakland, CA - Zhone Technologies, Inc., a global leader in FTTx network access solutions, today announced a new MXK deployment with Palm Hills Developments (PHD), a leading real estate company in the Egyptian market, to provide the first fiber-to-the-home community in the region. The new real estate complex, consisting of more than 1,000 residences, will provide access to state-of-the-art entertainment services such as high-speed broadband connectivity to every home within the development.
As of October 2011, PHD developed the first residential real estate complex in Egypt to provide IPTV services over GPON, enabled by Zhone`s MXK solution. The Zhone MXK Optical Line Termination (OLT) high-density platform was used as the main FTTx concentrator with GPON technology for the initial deployment phase. The flexibility to add on other access solutions that may be required as the deployment process expands was an essential value to PHD.
"When designing our brand-new luxury real estate complex with the latest entertainment services, we were determined to provide residents with the newest applications and superior experience, requiring best-in-class FTTH technology," stated Hisham Salah, vice president of technology for Palm Hills Developments. "We chose Zhone GPON technology as the right offering for the deployment because their solutions are flexible, reliable and cost-effective. The products are stable, and easy to operate and deploy."
With end-to-end management and end-user services interfaces based on Zhone solutions, PHD benefits from the flexibility of simple one-time configuration, a common service portfolio and unique end-user-specific service identification. Zhone carrier class access solutions, including its zNID Optical Network Terminal ONT, are integrated with PHD back office servers and network components to enable triple-play services.
"Zhone is proud to coordinate the first Egyptian GPON deployment for IPTV; our offerings seamlessly address the growing traffic and demand for high quality of service from its customers," stated Brian Caskey, chief marketing officer for Zhone. "Our extensive experience managing the complexity of multi-service access is demonstrated by our comprehensive portfolio of scalable FTTx solutions."
To-date, Zhone has deployed more than 3,000 of its fully redundant, carrier-grade all-IP MXK platforms with more than 150 service providers globally, signaling an FTTx customer growth rate of more than 450 percent in the 3-year period from January 2009 to January 2012. Total subscriber capacity supported by these deployments now exceeds 20 million. Featuring industry-leading density, scalability and switching capacity, the MXK is the industry`s first terabit access concentrator and provides non-blocking capacity of up to 3,600 100 Mbps GPON subscribers or 360 1G Active Ethernet subscribers. Zhone has also driven more than 8500 percent ONT growth and more than 9,800 percent OLT growth since solution inception.
For more information about Zhone`s MXK solution, please visit http://www.zhone.com/products/MXK/.
SOURCE: Zhone Technologies, Inc.