JULY 16, 2007 -- Telect Inc.'s (search for Telect) new Telect 96-home optical distribution cabinet is a key piece of the company's new OSP line. The compact enclosure is designed to house patch and splitter capabilities in minimal space. Engineered specifically for applications where providers are delivering FTTH in smaller neighborhoods, the lightweight cabinet is designed to be easily mounted on a pole to deliver fiber optics to up to 96 homes.
"Not every neighborhood needs a large-capacity, bulky optical distribution cabinet," said Mark Hawley, Telect's broadband solutions program manager. "This new enclosure provides ample capacity up front for most applications, and it's scalable to simply allow for growth in the future."
Telect says that with its new outside plant optical distribution cabinet, users gain a fully configured enclosure that can be expanded as network capacity grows, helping to manage overall costs and maximize capex budget dollars. The base cabinet, which serves up to 96 homes, features integrated splitter modules that can be installed as paying customers request services, helping to further manage costs.
The company believes the patent pending system is ideal for applications that deliver FTTH to developments that do not require the large capacity of traditional distribution cabinets. However, individual cabinets can be stacked to enable network growth in 96-home increments, either on top of each other in pad-mount applications or below each other in aerial applications. Capacity expands up to 288 homes.
In addition, the cabinet's high-density design enables the use of passive splitters with ratios as low as 1x4 while still maintaining 96-home output density. This helps ensure that end users continue to receive maximum bandwidth in the home as future applications increase bandwidth demand, Telect says. With the Telect cabinet, providers need only change out the splitter modules to a lower split ratio to deliver more optical bandwidth capacity to each end user.
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