As bandwidth requirements increase, the equipment delivering it over existing copper infrastructure is moving out of the Central Office onto the street, closer to subscribers. This places a major strain on the limited capacity of existing street cabinets, not all of which have power feeds. Telecom operators also feel the CAPEX and OPEX strain as more equipment, serving fewer subscribers, is deployed and which must perform like CO-based shelves under severe environmental and regulatory conditions.
Locating equipment near the subscriber to support bandwidth-hungry multimedia services is a clear trend. ECI offers a range of different shelf and pizza-box configurations for these emerging outdoor and remote deployments.
ECI's Outside Plant solutions work in concert with the entire ECI portfolio to provide a complete solution tied together by ECI's 1Net architectural framework