IPTV & RFTV

The Most IPTV-Capable Access in the Market Today

“We were looking for a solution that could provide voice, video, and data over copper. The MALC was a very good and affordable way to eliminate legacy equipment and to upgrade to all-in-one service offerings. With the MALC, we can offer the whole triple play bundle to any customer.”

—Lonnie Pederson, CEO, TSC

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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: MALC

MALC is the most IPTV-capable access platform on the market today. MALC has high bandwidth copper and fiber choices for the delivery of IPTV bundled services to subscribers based on service providers’ needs and their network topology.

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. MALC caters to these various scenarios by simultaneously supporting RF video over PON along with high-performance multicast IP video over copper or fiber.

Features

• Routed or Bridged Multicast: MALC 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: MALC can conserve bandwidth by only forwarding channels watched or leverage it's multicast back plane and terminate all multicast at each node.
• Content Security: MALC can conserve bandwidth by only forwarding channels watched or leverage MALC’s multicast back plane and forward all multicast.
• 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 MALC.
• Copper or Fiber for IPTV:MALC has ADSL2+ and VDSL2 (copper) and GPON, BPON and Active Ethernet (fiber) as IPTV bandwidth options.
• Gigabit Ethernet (dual or RPR) Uplinks: Each MALC has dual or Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) uplinks to the core network. RPR is ideal for distributing VOD on a multiple-node ring.
• Scalable Platforms: From 48 ports to 960 per node, with MALC models ideal for CO, remote cabinet and the far ends of the subscriber network.
• 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.

MALC Value Proposition and Benefits

MALC lowers the overall cost of ownership through a single platform approach to provisioning any mix of FTTx and copper options 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. MALC 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 HSIA and VoIP/voice services (triple play) enables true service bundling from a single access platform for greater efficiency. The choice of models and sizes of MALC most suitable for location and population assures optimum utilization and less chance of stranded investment.