Carrier Ethernet is a fundamental element of the Cisco® Evolved Programmable Network (EPN). This proven end-to-end network solution for video, mobile, and cloud can help customers increase revenue opportunities while reducing costs. It helps service providers develop a truly integrated, multidirectional network infrastructure in which all elements, from the core to the edge, access, aggregation, and data center, are intelligently linked and orchestrated to work together.

Over the years, fiber-based access has proven to be a cost-effective way to reach customer premises to deliver managed business and residential services. The Cisco ME 4600 Series Optical Network Terminal (ONT) portfolio offers an exceptionally broad and scalable solution. The Cisco ME 4600 series offers network service providers a flexible and cost-effective approach for optical fiber access solutions over active or passive optical network architectures.

The Cisco ME 4600 Multiservice Optical Access Platform includes reliable ONT devices designed for optical fiber network infrastructures in either point-to-point (P2P) or point-to-multipoint (P2MP) topologies. Ethernet or passive optical network (PON) technologies like Gigabit PON (GPON) are supported by the Cisco ME 4600 Series. Cisco ME 4600 Series products (Figure 1) support any fiber-based (FTTx) access scenarios, including fiber to the home (FTTH), fiber to the building (FTTB), fiber to the curb (FTTC), fiber to the cell (FTTc), and fiber to the business (FTTb).

Cisco ME 4600 Series customer premises equipment solutions are the right choice for service providers implementing a GPON or Gigabit Ethernet optical access network termination. The access network architecture (Figure 2) supports multiplay service, allowing High Speed Internet (HSI), voice and video services through Ethernet, Wi-Fi, POTS (FXS), and RF overlay standard interfaces. Mobile backhaul and dedicated time-division multiplexing (TDM) based business services are also supported.

Cisco ME 4600 Series ONT equipment solutions are BBF.247 certified (multivendor optical line terminal [OLT] interoperability) and can be easily configured to differentiate an operator's business model, whether retail, wholesale, or mobile. FTTH, FTTB, FTTb, FTTC, and FTTc are typically the target FTTP deployment scenarios to be considered within our offer.