Introduction

Cable Operators have traditionally treated non-residential services as opportunistic revenue streams that service mostly small businesses with cable modems. However, many Cable Operators are delivering services to business customers via fiber-based networks today. These networks often vary in architecture and capabilities from region-to-region and opportunity-to-opportunity, but exist due to the demand from the market for services above and beyond what the incumbent provider can deliver. As Cable Operators seek to grow revenue more aggressively, increasing the availability of Commercial Services delivered via fiber optic networks becomes very attractive.

World Wide Packets’ Fiber To The Subscriber™ solution addresses the Cable Operator’s desire for a managed end-to-end Commercial Services network. The LightningEdge solution is capable of delivering multiple managed services optically, each with their own unique Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee. This paper will review how the LightningEdge solution compliments Cable Operators’ existing fiber architecture and enables the delivery of Commercial Services to various types of customer locations.

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• Part 1:
  Introduction
• Part 2:
  Leveraging the Fiber Plant
• Part 3:
  LightningEdge CWDM Solution
• Part 4:
  LightningEdge Ethernet
• Part 5:
  LightningEdge Network Supervisor (LE-NS)
• Part 6:
  LightningEdge Commercial Services Solution