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Features

• Universal Access for Triple Play
• IP Video / RF Video Overlay
• VOIP: SIP / MGCP / H.248
• TDM/ATM to Packet Migration
• POTS to Pure Packet
• ADSL2+ / VDSL2 / EFM
• PON / Active Ethernet
• Narrowband, Specials, T1 / E1
• Integrated Voice Gateway: GR-303 / V5.2
• Integrated Emergency Stand-Alone (ESA)
• Integrated Access + Transport
• Resilient Packet Ring (RPR)
• TDM, ATM, or IP / Gigabit-Ethernet
• Proven Management System (ZMS)
• Scalable Deployment Options
• Environmentally Hardened

Related Products

• MALC XP
• Outside Plant Cabinets
• MALC-OLT
• MALC Active Ethernet
• MALC-EFM
• Ethernet Access
• CPE

Related Information

• Zhone EFM Product Guide (PDF)
• Zhone Solutions

MALC Broadband Loop Carrier

Copper and Fiber Access + Transport Platform Delivering Optimized Voice, Video and Data

Overview

The MALC is a full-featured Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC) optimized for delivering voice, data, and video services over a pure packet access network. MALC gives carriers the flexibility to cost-effectively deliver triple play services over existing facilities today and to migrate these services to a pure packet network. This migration is accomplished without disrupting subscriber service or revenue streams, giving carriers the ultimate flexibility for optimizing their networks and serving their subscribers.

Deployed in the Central Office, Remote Terminal, outdoor cabinets or basements, the MALC is offered in a range of compact, hardened chassis supporting densities from 24 to 960 ports per shelf with integrated packet ring transport. With line cards, cabling, provisioning and management common to all chassis, the MALC minimizes training, stocking, and operating expenses.

The MALC enables service providers to deploy a wide variety of business and residential services in a single platform. These services are deployed over the MALC large list of access technologies which include fiber (both PON and Active Ethernet), ADSL2+, ReachDSL, SHDSL, POTS, ISDN and T1/E1.

Enabling Residential & Business Services

The MALC product line enables service providers the ability to offer high-end residential and business services on the same platform. HSIA, VOIP, POTS, IPTV, Business broadband, Ethernet and High Cap services can be offered over copper and/or fiber.

Flexibility

Service providers can use MALC's flexible architecture to deploy different technologies such as POTS, xDSL, xPON, EFM and Active Ethernet on the same platform in their Central offices or Remote Terminals as a fiber to the home (FTTP) or Fiber to the node (FTTH) network element. The MALC product line also includes multiple form factors, 1U, 3U and the high density 7U providing a solution for all deployment sizes.

Redundancy

The MALC chassis with its fault tolerant control software and redundant uplink hardware design increases the resiliency and the scalability of the product. It also offers Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) over Gigabit Ethernet to increase the reliability of the network.

Migration from TDM/ATM to IP

Software-selectable line and trunk interfaces provide elegant circuit-to-packet migration. A range of uplinks - including T1/E1 ATM (UNI and IMA), T1/E1 TDM (GR.303 and V5.2), SONET and Gigabit Ethernet - allow carriers to maintain existing TDM services while simultaneously retooling for VoIP services using SIP, MGCP or H.248 signaling. Moreover, Zhone's integrated ADSL+POTS technology eliminates cutovers and truck rolls by allowing carriers to provision broadband or narrowband services remotely.

Management

The MALC product line integrates into Zhone's Management system (ZMS) giving the service provider total control over their entire network. Using ZMS multiple MALC nodes can be managed from remote locations, customer provisioning, fault isolation, Auto discovery, alarm aggregation and maintenance can easily preformed without any service interruption.

Cost Savings/Operating Costs

Zhone's MALC provides the functions of a Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC), FTTN, DSLAM, PON OLT, VoIP Line Access Gateway and a GR-303/V5.2-compliant voice gateway. The MALC allows access network operators to deliver Triple Play services concurrently over copper or fiber access lines. This flexibility provides Operators with reduced sparing, training, management and installation expenses, hence reducing overall operating cost

Cabinets

The Zhone access portfolio is completed with a full line of outside plant cabinets completely engineered to support Zhone's MALC product line. Zhone's cabinet line has configurations that are designed to support small density to large scale deployments, with a full range of options designed to meet Service Providers needs.

More Information

• Download MALC Datasheet (PDF)

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