Vecima Networks Inc. announced that a Tier 1 service provider in North America has completed lab qualifications of Vecima's Entra EXS1610 All-PONTM Shelf and is currently planning field deployments. Other customers around the globe are planning lab trials of the platform for anticipated deployment this year. A key component of Vecima's industry-leading Fiber Access product portfolio, the EXS1610 All-PON Shelf allows customers to cost effectively deploy Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) services in any market or hub deployment, allowing maximum flexibility for customers.

The Entra EXS1610 supports multiple deployment use cases, including greenfield, targeted brownfields, rural edge-outs, hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) overbuilds, footprint extensions, and hub collapses. Its compact shelf footprint can help reduce operating costs and allows operators to deploy anywhere - indoors and out - for maximum flexibility, including data centers, remote cabinets, the headend, and multi-dwelling units. The Entra EXS1610 All-PON Shelf features: 16 x PON ports: 10G-EPON, XGS-PON, and GPON, Temperature-hardened for outside plant deployments Multi-vendor optical network terminal (ONT) interoperability, Uplink optics: 2 x 100/40G & 2 x 25/10G with broad third-party optics support 300mm depth designed for ETSI-rack, 1+1 AC or DC power redundancy.