Bright House Taps Fujitsu

Bright House Networks has deployed Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.’s FLASHWAVE 7500 DWDM platform for cable television systems in and around Tampa Bay and Central Florida.

With more than 2 million subscribers, Bright House will use the system to transport video on demand, high-definition TV, broadcast video, digital telephony and high-speed data over a single core network.

A centralized VOD architecture requires a huge number of gigabit Ethernet signals to be transported from the core to the edge of a cable operators network. The eight-to-one (8:1) multiplexed gigabit Ethernet optical line cards of the FLASHWAVE 7500 platform, which are being deployed today, accommodate this requirement.

Bright House will also be using a new tool for local management of FLASHWAVE 7500 nodes that expedites initial turn-up and remote provisioning. Step-by-step graphical interfaces on the system guide network operators through service provisioning, software download and fiber cabling, to allow a single technician to perform the same tasks that ordinarily require an entire team.

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