IPTV & RFTV

The Most IPTV-Capable Access in the Market Today

“The cost effectiveness of Zhone’s new platform is key to our success with this project. We’re seeing a hockey-stick curve on our take rates for high-speed broadband and digital TV.”

—Randy Baker, GM, Stratford Mutual Telephone Co

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Application

IPTV services rely heavily on content, ease of use and picture quality as benchmarks for consumer satisfaction – all of which can pose a challenge for service providers.

Service providers need an access platform that interoperates with a variety of third party products and applications. IPTV requires multicast forwarding for fast channel change performance in addition to HDTV and VOD services that require high bandwidth. Access design and functionality play a key role in enabling and supporting these IPTV requirements. Many service providers continue to offer traditional non-IPTV RF cable television services that require an integrated access solution for their voice and data services.

Solution: MXK

MXK is the most IPTV-capable access platform on the market today. MXK has high bandwidth fiber choices for the delivery of IPTV and services to subscribers based on service providers’ needs and their network topology. As a part of the Zhone MSAP family, MXK can seamlessly integrate with the other Zhone platforms to offer the delivery of IPTV and VOD services over copper as well.

Legacy DLC or NGDLC devices can provide voice and broadband data, but they are not suitable for video distribution. In order to offer video services, service providers must either provide multicast IP video over DSL with the existing copper network or deploy PON and then provide multicast IP video and/or RF video over it. MXK platforms support both RF and IP video over fiber, working seamlessly with the MALC for PON or point-to-point IP video over copper.

Features

• Routed or Bridged Multicast:MXK can be used as a distributed multicast router for video using IGMP Proxy or for bridged mode multicast using IGMP snooping.
• Sparse or Dense Mode Multicast: MXK can conserve bandwidth by only forwarding channels watched or leverage its multicast back plane and terminate all multicast at each node.
• Bandwidth Optimization: MXK can conserve bandwidth by only forwarding channels watched. It also only forwards a channel once o via the backplane when multiple subscribers are viewing the same channel, replicating the channel at the line card level.
• ZMS Management: Zhone's ZMS enables element and service level management, including such features as Access Control List and MAC Filtering for IPTV delivery along with all other services supported from MXK.
• Copper or Fiber for IPTV:MXK has GPON and Active Ethernet as IPTV bandwidth options. By integrating with MALC, it also extends ADSL2+ as an IPTV bandwidth option.
• Scalable Platforms: With non-blocking capacity of up to 3600 100 Mbps GPON subs or 360 1G Active Ethernet subs per chassis, the MXK is ideal for CO, or remote cabinets to extend services to a large numbers of subscribers.
• Outdoor (OPX) Cabinets: outside plant cabinet solutions in small footprint 4300 series OPX cabinets or larger 5200 series OPX cabinets in designs specifically for IPTV and triple play service within the neighborhood.

MXK Value Proposition and Benefits

MXK lowers the overall cost of ownership through a single platform approach to provisioning any mix of FTTx for IPTV based on location and bandwdith needs. Service providers realize improved CapEx with integrated IPTV functionality such as IGMP Proxy for delivering fast and consistent channel changes. MXK is interoperable and tested with most major IPTV head end, middleware, conditional cccess and IP set top vendors for rapid test and turn up. Support of either IPTV or RF video using FTTx along with broadband and VoIP/voice services (triple play) enables true service bundling from a single access platform for greater efficiency.