Petaluma, CA-based Calix (News - Alert), Inc., a global network access solutions provider, has expanded E-Series VDSL2 portfolio with three new solutions.

The company has added the:

• E5-48 Ethernet Service Access Node (ESAN)
• E5-48C ESAN
• New VDSL2-48D line card for the E7-2 modular Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) to the Calix Unified Access portfolio.

The new additions to the E-Series enhances both the portfolio's vectoring and bonding capabilities and small form factor deployment options.

"Communications service providers globally continue to engage in fiber forward strategies to shorten loop lengths, drive faster broadband speeds over the remainder of their copper infrastructure, and remain competitive," said Teresa Mastrangelo, principal analyst at Broadbandtrends.

However, Mastrangelo said, implementation of these strategies presents new challenges as service providers address issues related to product placement, rights-of-way, powering, and scalability.

Despite these challenges, Mastrangelo also noted that, “These small form factor, highly flexible, E-Series solutions provide a variety of new options for pushing more advanced broadband services out to subscribers served by copper infrastructure, as well as key service enhancement features like vectoring and bonding that can significantly increase service performance."  

Officials with Calix said that the E7-2 VDSL2-48D line card adds another complementary deployment option to the modular E7-2, the industry's densest small form factor VDSL2 solution. With two 48 port data-only cards deployed in a single E7-2 chassis, Calix customers will be able to support up to 96 ports of VDSL2 in 1 rack unit (RU).

"As service providers extend the life of their copper networks through new technologies such as VDSL2 bonding and vectoring, Calix continues to deliver a wide variety of options to meet any deployment scenario," said John Colvin, senior vice president of North American sales and marketing, Calix.

Colvin said that with the addition of these three new VDSL2 solutions to the E-Series portfolio, service providers can now match the right product to virtually any network challenge.

Calix revealed that its E7-2 modular Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) has been selected by infrastructure provider and Calix Channel Partner (News - Alert) Covage for its fibre access deployments as part of the French government initiative for ultra high speed broadband (THD - Très Haut Débit).

Covage will leverage GPON technology across the E7-2 and both Calix P-Series and T-Series service gateways at the premises to provide advanced broadband services capable of speeds up to one gigabit per second (Gbps) at regional projects throughout France.