ALLO Communications and Calix have conducted a 50G PON trial on the service provider’s production network in Lincoln, Nebraska, according to the vendor.
The press release offers no specifics about the trial, which used the Calix Broadband Platform, but does suggest that the 50G PON will become a regular ALLO offering.
The goal is to offer bandwidth-intensive applications on a single PON platform to all market segments, which include consumer, small and medium business, enterprise, community roaming and offload, Calix president and chief executive officer Michael Weening said in the announcement.
Weening added that ALLO customers can seamlessly automate their 50G PON network alongside their other networks in the company’s operations cloud.
ALLO and Calix have a 15-year partnership. ALLO operates in Colorado, Missouri, and Arizona in addition to Nebraska.
Calix positions the 50G service as capable of supporting non-residential constituencies such as first responders, academic institutions, the industrial Internet of Things, agriculture, and medical facilities. Services, it says, could include telehealth, virtual reality, and live streaming.
“With the ability to quickly integrate new broadband innovation like 50G PON into our all-fiber network, our Calix partnership enables us to deliver the managed services needed in our communities today and in the future,” said ALLO president and CEO Brad Moline. “That is how we keep exceeding the expectations of our subscribers and investors.”
Nokia is the vendor most closely associated with 50G PON. For instance, in early July, Google Fiber said its GFiber Labs had successfully conducted a live test using the vendor’s equipment in its Kansas City Fiber huts.
Later that month, Frontier conducted a trial in which 100 Gbps, 50 Gbps, 25 Gbps, and 10 Gbps speeds were simultaneously transmitted on the same network. The trial used Nokia’s Lightspan MF Fiber PON platform and Frontier’s quad band coexistence technology.
