Wave7 Announces New Capabilities, Customers

Wave7 Optics’ Last Mile Link (LML) now allows service providers to triple the size of their service area via the incorporation of extended reach optics.

The company’s Last Mile Core (LMC) OLT (optical line terminal) unit can now reach subscribers up to 18km away when deployed in a central office location and subscribers up to 88km when deployed remotely – an improvement from the 10 and 70km limits in the previous version of the LMC. The new LMC is backward compatible with the installed base of Wave7 equipment.

Wave7 also today announced two new customers for the LML.

Ringgold Telephone has selected the LML system for new housing developments under construction in its service area. Ringgold is an independent operating company (for local and long-distance telephone and video services) and Internet service provider with 14,000 access lines serving most of Catoosa County in northwest Georgia.

And Izumo Cablevision is deploying Wave7’s LML optical broadband system in a new network serving the city of Taki-Cho (Shimane Prefecture).

In other news today, Wave7 Optics is introducing a new version of its Last Mile Gateway customer premises product that features compatibility to the IEEE 802.3 ah standard and layer 2 capabilities for commercial applications, such as VLAN.

“The Last Mile Link can provide up to 500mbps of capacity per subscriber in a layer 3 point-to-multipoint implementation using Ethernet and IP – which is ideal for large-scale residential deployments, but many businesses these days prefer to have at least a gigabit of bandwidth and their comparatively small numbers are not conducive to multipoint implementations,” says Emmanuel Vella, chief marketing officer of Wave7 Optics. “Therefore, in order for our customers to meet the needs of this customer segment, we are leveraging our expertise in IP- and Ethernet-based networks to create a new class of CPE that offers a cost-effective point-to-point layer 2 implementation and gigabit bandwidth capability.”

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