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PODCAST Published this week at the Ethernet Academy:  DOCSIS® Management of Ethernet PONs by Author, Mannix O'Connor, Director of Marketing at Hitachi. 

This podcast is based on the Peer Reviewed paper "DOCSIS Management for Ethernet PON Networks"  By Mannix O'Connor and Vladimir Bronstein available in the "Papers" section of the Ethernet Academy.

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Published this week at the Ethernet Academy:  DOCSIS® Network Management Architecture for Ethernet PON Networks

Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) is a cost effective technology for achieving fiber-to-the-premises connectivity. However, deploying EPON with vendor-specific management and provisioning systems also requires significant investments to replace the corresponding DOCSIS systems that exist today. The cost of replicating DOCSIS provisioning, operations, maintenance, and data collections systems can be cost prohibitive.

A new class of EPON systems has evolved to resolve this dilemma. DOCSIS over EPON (DePON) architectures enable EPON fiber access networks to be managed by existing DOCSIS infrastructure and operations support systems.