Occam Network's BLC 6314 10GigE Transport and Optical Line Termination (OLT) Blade

Occam’s razor has always been associated with the concept of simplicity. For instance, Occam’s razor postulates that the answers to most scientific phenomenon are usually the simplest rather than the more complex. Well, Occam Networks aims to provide the simplest solution to the complexity of bandwidth hungry applications running on a service provider’s network. Occam’s newest blade for its flagship BLC 6000, the BLC 6314 10GigE Transport and optical Line Termination (OLT) blade,
adds a whopping dual 10 Gigabit Optical Ethernet and multiple 1 Gigabit Ethernet
interfaces to the BLC 6000 in a single,environmentally hardened blade. The Occam BLC 6314 claims to be the first and only product that delivers this level of bandwidth with a sub-50-millisecond failover rate. This enables telcos to create highly resilient access networks that can deliver a TV signal with “five nines”of reliability. The BLC provides an abundance of symmetrical bandwidth that enables telcos to easily create very high capacity access networks with 10 Gigabit
Ethernet redundant transport rings at a fraction of the cost of traditional SONETbased OC 192. The BLC 6314 can be used for fiber to the home (FTTH) optical line termination. When combined with the Occam BLC 6312 blade, the BLC 6314 creates a high-capacity FTTP Optical Line Termination system with integrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet transport that can serve more than 250 subscribers with up to one Gigabit of full duplex bandwidth each. Having this kind of mega-bandwidth makes broadband
cable and DSL look like dial-up!
Also, the BLC 6314 can also be used for higher capacity access network
aggregation using the company’s Ethernet Protection Switching (EPS). It provides resilient 10 Gigabit Ethernet aggregation rings for BLC 6000-based copper and fiber access networks. As bandwidth-intensive applications, such as HDTV, IPTV, VoIP VoD, P2P etc., continue to consume more bandwidth, service providers are looking for solu
tions to their subscribers’ seemingly insatiable bandwidth appetite. Fortunately, Occam Networks’ BLC 6000 Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC) uses IP as a simple, common service delivery protocol for all services and Ethernet transport to provide the economical, highly scalable bandwidth needed for delivering today’s and tomorrow’s new services.