OmniReach™: The Efficient Service Delivery Architecture for OSP Networks

Current outside plant (OSP) networks, particularly those deploying fiber, were designed primarily with transport and backhaul in mind – a means to carry telecommunications traffic on and off a larger transport system and usually over long distances. There was little demand for actual service delivery to multiple end users, although an occasional large business customer might require as much as an OC-3 or OC-48, Megabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or other connection for day-to-day business operations....