Zhone Technologies announced a comprehensive suite of products that allow telephone companies to provide voice, data, video and entertainment services to their subscribers over either the existing outside plant or new fiber deployments and over their subscribers existing inside wiring. Zhone's Single Line Multi-Service (SLMS) architecture is a complete, end-to-end solution that allows telephone carriers to deliver the triple-play of voice, data and video services to their subscribers over a single network using entirely existing facilities. SLMS has proven cost effective for carriers worldwide and encompasses any deployment scenario, whether greenfield networks, migration from old copper plant or an overlay.

In the carrier network, Zhone's Single Line Multi-Service product family utilizes the carriers existing copper wiring while providing an elegant migration to new fiber deployments using common hardware and a common management system. This media agnostic approach allows the carrier to use existing copper loops and outside plant facilitates for rapid deployment while progressively evolving to a fiber based build-out. This managed migration to fiber ensures sustained revenue while stemming the erosion of the carriers' customer base to competitors.

The SLMS architecture delivers services to the home or business using the Multiple Access Line Concentrator (MALC). The new MALC PON OLT line cards enable field upgrades to new high bandwidth optical services in addition to a broad range of broadband and narrowband copper based services. Designed for CO, RT, outdoor cabinet or basement deployment, the MALC family of media-and protocol-agnostic packet loop carriers can be configured for traditional and next generation applications including ATM packet loop carrier, optical line termination unit, ATM/IP DSLAM and traditional DLC. Carriers can mix technologies down to the circuit pack to meet their subscribers specific requirements.

The MALC's cost-effective design, with common line cards across a range of different chassis designs, helps manage the cost of ownership and makes for price competitive deployments from POTS to PON. With the introduction of its PON solution, Zhone is delivering on its SLMS architecture's protocol and media agnostic vision with a broad range of either IP or ATM uplinks including T1/E1 IMA, DS3, E3, OC-3, STM-1, OC-12, STM-4, 10bT, 100bT, and GigE. In addition to PON and DSL services, Zhone's SLMS architecture supports the industry's broadest array of narrowband and special services available, and all on common platforms and cabinets.