Mr. Vijay Raman reports

ELISA EXPANDS PON DEPLOYMENT WITH VECIMA'S ALL-PON SHELF, DELIVERING 10G FIBER SERVICES IN ESTONIA

Leading telecommunications operator Elisa has deployed Vecima Networks Inc.'s Entra EXS1610 All-PON Shelf for 10G fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services for its subscribers in Estonia.

In Estonia's competitive broadband market, Elisa brings highly innovative solutions to its subscribers. Vecima's EXS1610 supports multiple deployment use cases, including greenfield, targeted brownfields, rural edge-outs, hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) overbuilds, footprint extensions and hub collapses.

Its compact shelf footprint can help reduce operating costs and allow operators to deploy anywhere -- for maximum flexibility, including data centres, remote cabinets, the head-end and multidwelling units.

The Entra EXS1610 All-PON Shelf features:

• 16 by PON ports: 10G-EPON, XGS-PON, and Combo XGS-PON and GPON;
• Temperature-hardened for outside plant deployments;
• Multivendor optical network terminal (ONT) interoperability;
• Uplink optics: two by 100/40G and two by 25/10G with broad third party optics support;
• 300-millimetre depth designed for ETSI-rack;
• One plus one AC or DC 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 1."

According to Dell'Oro Group, Vecima is the global revenue leader in remote OLT devices, which enable broadband service providers to deliver 10G FTTH services, including the EXS1610 All-PON Shelf. In addition, the Entra SF-4X -- the world's most widely deployed remote OLT -- can support 50G ITU PON and 10G-EPON or XGS-PON simultaneously on the same port for maximum investment protection and simplified next-generation PON migration.

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. The company 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.

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