Catena Networks Tunes its Broadband Loop Carrier for Fiber Deployments
[from converge digest]
Catena Networks, a start-up based in Kanata, Ontario, introduced a hybrid copper/fiber local access solution for carriers planning to augment their existing networks with new Fiber-to-the-Neighborhood (FTTN) deployments. The solution consists of new Optical Line Cards (OLCs) and Optical Network Units (ONUs) for Catena’s CN1000 Broadband Loop Carrier Remote Terminal.
Each Optical Line Card supports four ONUs via fiber connections. Catena’s Optical Network Unit extends the POTS+ADSL loop electronics from the CN1000 Broadband Loop Carrier Remote Terminal closer to end-users. This enables carriers to deliver high bandwidth services in greenfield neighborhoods, broadband overbuild applications and remote, low-density rural locations. Each ONU supports 24 ports of integrated POTS+ADSL, narrowband special services and G.SHDSL, and is engineered to support VDSL.
Catena’s Fiber-to-the-X solutions are compliant with the International Telecommunication Union’s G.983 series standards for Broadband Passive Optical Networks (BPONs), and Telcordia’s GR-909 requirements for Fiber-in-the-Loop (FITL) access systems.
catena.com
02-Jun-03
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Catena Networks Announces Video-over-DSL Solution
Catena Networks announced a video-over-DSL solution that enables carriers to offer "Triple Play" bundled voice, data and video services. The solution is based on Catena’s CN1000 Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC) platform, which integrates the functions of a Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier (NGDLC), a video-enabled DSLAM, a Fiber Multiplexer and a packet-ready Media Gateway.
Catena's CN1000 BLC provides integrated IGMP and multicasting capabilities, unlike other older DSLAMs and DLCs that need a co-located IGMP router in order to multicast video streams. Catena provides the ability to software-provision video services to any line its BLC serves. A set-top box is used at the subscriber end.
At SuperComm, Catena is showing is DSL video network that uses video headend equipment from Entone and VideTele; video middleware from Myrio; and set-top boxes from Entone, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and i3 Micro.
catena.com
02-Jun-03
Catena Networks has raised US$192 million in venture financing since its founding in 1998. The company is headquartered in Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
Catena Networks is headed by Jim Hjartarson, a co-founder of the company. Prior to forming Catena, Hjartarson was vice president and general manager at Cadence Design Systems, where he co-founded the Cadence Design Center in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. |
