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Passive Optical LAN
Passive Optical LAN speeds IT productivity through simplification. It reduces network vulnerability points. It offers flexible design options to right-size capacity and density. Optical LAN is optimized for modern fiber-based network connectivity inside buildings and across campus.
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The 20th-century LAN was decentralized and hardware-centric. It was designed for “best effort” services and applications with 80% local traffic. CIOs and IT professionals prioritized their IT spend on racks and stacks of switches and cabling that filled their local data center rooms (MDFs) and communication rooms (IDFs). Technicians ran around to far-reaching end-points managing and troubleshooting networks. Security was of little concern behind the enterprise’s locked front door and wireless connectivity did not even exist yet.

Passive Optical LAN is a better architecture for the modern 21st-century LAN that never sleeps. Its fundamental architecture has centralized intelligence and management which perfectly aligns with today’s wireless (both Wi-Fi and cellular DAS), cloud, hosted/managed services, Internet of Things (IoT) and Software Defined Networking (SDN). Tellabs Optical LAN is the best choice for the modern, high-performance 21st-century LAN.

Quick Facts

 

  • Fiber cabling is inherently more secure than copper, and Optical LAN has less points of vulnerability.

 

  • Less human touch is required to manage an Optical LAN, which directly improves operational efficiencies, reliability and security.

 

  • ONTs are simple, unmanaged devices and easy to manage with global policies via centralized intelligence and management.

 

 

  • Greater connectivity density in less footprint and a graceful migration to future technologies.

 

  • Fewer moving parts to break, less potential for human error and carrier-class componentry.

 

  • Centralized management ensures consistent security policies and procedures are adhered to.

 

Optical Line Terminal (OLT)

 

Optical Line Terminal, or OLT, is typically located in a main data center and provides aggregation and distribution of the enterprise network connectivity. It is the OLT that is connected to the Wide Area Network (WAN), High-Speed Internet and all corporate resource servers through the core router.

 

Single Mode Fiber (SMF)

 

Single Mode Fiber, or SMF, is the optical cabling that runs throughout the building’s risers and pathways. It is the SMF that physically connects the OLT, splitters and ONTs.

 

Passive Optical Splitters

 

Passive Optical Splitters provide the point-to-multipoint connectivity between the OLT and the ONTs. The splitters offer flexible mounting in telecom closets, wall enclosures or ceiling enclosures. They are unmanaged and highly reliable.

 

Optical Network Terminals (ONT)

 

Optical Network Terminal, or ONT, enables optical to electrical conversion and Ethernet connectivity for voice, video, data, Wi-Fi and all other digital enterprise services and devices. ONTs are PoE enabled and subtend other powered devices (e.g. phones, cameras, wireless access points). ONT mounting can be located above the desk, below the desk or can be nearly flush-mounted in the wall. They can also be mounted in zone boxes, with optional plenum brackets and in raised floors.

 

Passive Optical Network Manager

 

Passive Optical Network Manager, or PON Manager, is the centralized intelligence and management of the passive optical network and subtended powered devices. The PON Manager provides the one console and one screen control to orchestrate consistent, repeatable, error-free IT policies and procedures.

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FlexSym Singlemode Fiber to Multimode Fiber Modal Adapting Jumper

Optical LAN
  • Supports any length of SMF from the Tellabs OLT through the splitter up to the limit of the 28dB optical budget
  • Allows re-use of multimode fiber cabling from the splitter location to where the ONTs are mounted (all Tellabs ONT models are supported)
  • Economical one-to-one MMF cabling solution without stranding ports on passive optical splitters
  • Eliminates the cost of installing new singlemode fiber in the horizontal pathways and the final access drops
  • Two versions available for SMF SC/APC connector on OLT/splitter side and MMF ST/UPC connector on ONT side in 3-meters length, plus SMF SC/APC connector on OLT/splitter side and MMF LC/UPC connector on ONT side in 3-meters length.
  • Allows full rate PON service over multimode fiber cabling up to 550 meters
  • Qualified for OM1, OM2, and OM3 multimode fiber cable types
  • Completely passive operation, no power or maintenance required

FlexSym Optical Line Terminal One (OLT1)

Optical LAN
  • Up to 512 ONTs (64-way optical split) and up to 4,096 Ethernet port
  • 4-ports gigabit Ethernet and 2-ports 10 gigabit Ethernet network uplink interfaces
  • 1 rack unit, 19” form factor. AC powered with redundant power supplies.
  • 8-port PON service module with XFP selectable 10G XGS-PON or G-PON connectivity
  • Highly secure with bi-directional AES128 encryption with churning keys
  • Leverages centralized intelligence with software defined networking management
  • Environmentally hardened for support of a wide variety of mounting options
  • Small form-factor overlay of existing 3rd-party G-PON installs with Tellabs' 10G XGS-PON

FlexSym Optical Network Terminal 248 (ONT248)

Optical LAN
  • Economical one-to-one closet-based legacy switch replacement
  • Reuse the last 100m CATx cables in the horizontal, walls and drops
  • Achieve lower IT support and maintenance costs
  • Remove points of known network vulnerabilities
  • Reduce fiber cabling building-to-building and floor-to-floor
  • Gain extended temperature range inside IT equipment rooms
  • Support IoT, smart buildings, Wi-Fi, digital ceiling and LED lighting
  • Migrate to deep fiber design or combining with deep fiber

FlexSym XGS-PON Combiner

Optical LAN
  • Optimized interworking with Tellabs Optical LAN equipment inside buildings and across a campus
  • Tellabs FlexSym XGS-PON Combiner mounts in standard LGX enclosure
  • Combines G-PON and 10G XGS-PON wavelengths onto a single fiber enabling G-PON and 10G across same optical infrastructure
  • Provides optimal upstream filtering to eliminate any unwanted wavelengths maximizing efficiency
  • Connected ONTs can be either G-PON, or 10G XGS-PON, and either closet-based, or deep fiber placement
  • Economical overlay of existing 3rd-party G-PON installs with Tellabs FlexSym Series 10G XGS-PON solution

Advanced NAC Software Package

Optical LAN
  • Provides highly secure policy management that controls network access
  • Allows more consistent, repeatable and error-free application of security policy across the network
  • Deployed in the most secure government and military networks in the USA
  • Administer strict security policy based on the user login or device type
  • Dynamic configuration and allocation of resources in real time
  • RADIUS and Change of Authorization extension interface with Port Authentication Entity (PAE)

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