Mr. Vijay Raman reports

VECIMA'S ENTRA EXS1610 ALL-PON SHELF COMPLETES LAB TRIAL WITH TIER 1 NORTH AMERICAN OPERATOR

A Tier 1 service provider in North America has completed lab qualifications of Vecima Networks Inc.'s Entra EXS1610 All-PON Shelf and is currently planning field deployments. Other customers around the globe are planning lab trials of the platform for anticipated deployment this year.

A key component of Vecima's industry-leading fibre access product portfolio, the EXS1610 All-PON Shelf, allows customers to cost-effectively deploy fibre to the premises (FTTP) services in any market or hub deployment, allowing maximum flexibility for customers.

The Entra EXS1610 supports multiple deployment use cases, including greenfields, targeted brownfields, rural edgeouts, hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) overbuilds, footprint extensions and hub collapses. Its compact shelf footprint can help reduce operating costs and allows operators to deploy anywhere -- indoors and outdoors -- for maximum flexibility, including data centres, remote cabinets, the head-end and multidwelling units.

The Entra EXS1610 All-PON Shelf features:

• 16 PON ports -- 10G-EPON, XGS-PON and GPON;
• Temperature hardened for outside plant deployments;
• Multivendor optical network terminal (ONT) interoperability;
• Uplink optics-- two 100/40G and two 25/10G with broad third party optics support;
• 300-millimetre depth designed for ETSI rack;
• 1+1 AC (alternating current) or DC (direct current) power redundancy.

"Vecima is unique in offering a purpose-built, 16-port, one-rack unit 10G-EPON shelf that shares the same software as the worldwide market-share-leading Entra SF-4X remote optical line terminal (R-OLT) platform," said Vijay Raman, vice-president of fibre access product line management at Vecima. "Operators can be confident that the EXS1610 is ready to deploy at scale on day one."

The Vecima distributed access architecture portfolio, recognized by the Dell'Oro Group as the North America market share leader in remote MACPHY and 10G-EPON remote optical line terminal (R-OLT) solutions, is deployed by operators around the world. With full support for all next-generation cable access technologies, high-value legacy services and proven interoperability, the networks of tomorrow are deployable today.

About Vecima Networks Inc.

Vecima Networks is leading the global evolution to the multigigabit, content-rich networks of the future. The company's talented people deliver future-ready software, services and integrated platforms that power broadband and video streaming networks, monitor and manage transportation, and transform experiences in homes, businesses and everywhere people connect. Vecima helps its customers evolve their networks with cloud-based solutions that deliver groundbreaking speed, superior video quality and exciting new services to their subscribers. There is power in connectivity -- it enables people, businesses and communities to grow and thrive.