The California-based manufacturer of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with manufacturing units in Shenzhen, China and the Silicon Valley, NeoPhotonics has made available the XG PON1 transceiver module, which is in an XFP form factor for 10G PON applications.
Designed for use in 10 G PON applications, the extended reach pluggable transceiver module supports the network overlay of 10 G XG-PON1 over Class B+ GPON networks, which exist today. This feature enables carriers to expand their fiber optic access networks from 1.25 and 2.5 G to 10 G without further investing in the infrastructure.
The Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of NeoPhotonics, Tim Jenks expressed his excitement by stating that the transceiver modules have been designed to support the next-gen10G PON networks and are also compatible with the 1G PON networks that exist today. Samples have been provided to customers who are in the initial stages of 10G PON network deployment.
NeoPhotonics has expanded its range of 10 Gigabit PON transceivers with the ITU-T G987.2 Class N2 XG-PON1 XFP OLT module. The OLT is IEEE 802.3av standard compliant. The range of PON transceivers includes PX20 and PX20+ GEPON OLTs, Class C+ and B+ GPON OLTs, 10G/10G and 10G/1G EPON OLT, multiple ONUs as well as ONU transceivers.
An official statement from the company also states that the capacity of NeoPhotonics’ OLT transceivers has tripled in the last one year in order to support the FTTH (Fiber-to-the-home) deployments in North America and Asia. Jenks also added that the decision of tripling the production capacity of the OLT transceivers stems from the growing FTTH deployment trends globally. This will enable the company to fulfill the growing demand of the customers.