Hitachi to Demonstrate Multiple Innovative Video Applications

ATLANTA, GA, October 22, 2007 – Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc., today announced the content of the company’s demonstrations at the TelcoTV Conference and Expo, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on October 23-25, 2007. Centered around the Hitachi AMN1220 GPON platform, the company will address several applications that increase the value and reach of GPON FTTP deployments.  Hitachi is in booth 537, at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Hitachi’s Source-to-Subscriber solution assists the service provider with project and technology assessment, financing as needed, adjunct product selection and interoperability, as well as operational issues that frequently are obstacles to operators seeking to provide video, data and voice services. Hitachi will assume the role of integrator and single point of contact to ensure that the network is properly designed and built, and that the necessary operational procedures are set in place to maximize the operator’s revenue opportunities.

Video is the cornerstone of most triple play deployments, and is a very complex service to provide for organizations that are newly entering this market. Decisions are required for type of video technology (RF or IP, or both), headends must be designed and built, and content must be acquired. Hitachi can provide this service as part of the Source-to-Subscriber solution, but for some service providers, a better solution is to deliver video services on a hosted basis. Now, Hitachi offers a hosted video solution which provides a full complement of HD and Standard definition channels, including pay-per-view and video-on-demand – without having to build a complete headend and without the responsibility for negotiating content arrangements. At TelcoTV 2007, a live connection between the Hitachi booth (#537) and the Fidelity Solutions, Inc. booth (#743) will demonstrate this solution.

Hitachi has teamed up with Arris to address the data needs of hotels and other MDU facilities that cater to non-permanent residents. The Arris CXM Broadband Gateway product can deliver an Internet connection of up to 10Mbps to hotel rooms over existing coaxial cable. While GPON can provide between 80Mb and 1 Gbps to an individual user, these applications typically do not require this amount of bandwidth, and in most cases already have a coaxial cable distribution for video services.

 The Arris CXM^TM High Speed Internet Access (HSIA) solution consists of two main elements: the CXM Broadband Gateway (CXM BG30x) which serves as a combination bridge, router, gateway and switch with the ability to connect up to 256 individual subscribers to bundled Internet services; and the end-user access appliance, the CXM SD30x end user appliance connected to the subscriber’s computer.  The Arris CXM BG30x connects to the Hitachi AMN1220 GPON ONT (Optical Network Terminal) via a 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet link.

About Hitachi’s AMN1220 Product Family

The AMN1220 FTTP platform is a family of high-performance GPON products that provide ultra high bandwidth communication services to residential, business and institutional subscribers using a single optical fiber direct to the subscriber’s premises.  Compliant with ITU-T G.984 standards, the AMN1220 provides data rates of 2.488Gbps downstream and 1.244Gbps upstream. Standards compliance provides assurance that service providers will have maximum flexibility in implementing FTTP solutions as applications and services are added in the future. Legacy TDM services such as T1 are seamlessly handled in their native formats using GPON Encapsulation Mode (GEM) framing.

The AMN1220 consists of a centrally located Optical Line Terminal (OLT) connected via single-mode fiber optic cable to Optical Network Terminals (ONT) at the subscribers’ premises. The OLT is equipped with a hybrid Layer 2/3 + TDM switch fabric for flexible traffic management and consolidation.  ONTs include multiple variations of the GST, a single family / small business unit, and the GMT, a configurable multi-dwelling/multi-business ONT.  All ONTs can provide a Gigabit Ethernet line rate interface to the subscriber, enabling a wide range of business applications today and providing future proofing for both residential and business networks.