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The company will integrate its advanced Gallium Nitride technology inside its SG4000, BTN100, MBN100 and BLN100 optical nodes and BT (News - Alert), MiniBridger and BLE RF amplifiers.

 

Claiming that no other vendor can drive an RF signal as far as Motorola, Joe Cozzolino senior vice president and general manager for Access Networks Solutions at Motorola Home and Networks Mobility, said that this innovation extends Motorola’s leadership in RF technology.

 

Thanks to the latest innovation, Motorola now provides the highest-available RF output levels for cable operators driving fiber deeper into their networks. Company officials said that this results in as much as a 20-percent reduction of active components in N+1 architectures.

 

Also, Motorola allows the operator to lower both capital and operational expenses by reducing the actives in the network, and it also reduces system powering requirements and increases network reliability.

 

This latest innovation offers cable operators improved economics for driving fiber deeper into their networks while providing consumers with the advanced video and broadband services they demand, Cozzolino said.

 

By introducing extended reach RF amplification, Motorola makes it even more affordable to deploy fiber deeper in the network. This is made possible by reducing the number of active components and their associated installation and operational costs.

 

The new technology also minimizes the need for re-spacing amplifiers as operators upgrade to 1 GHz and higher technologies, providing a significant cost benefit over existing technologies.

 

The cable operators can select to serve more homes from a single node or install fewer amplifiers in the network by driving fiber deeper into the HFC network. While for cable operators, this translates into greater throughput for advanced services and more economical network deployment, and for consumers, this offers the potential for both higher quality and a broader range of services from their cable operator, said company officials.

 

Motorola said that its comprehensive fiber deep portfolio offers four key solution sets to help cable operators migrate fiber deeper into their networks. These are RF amplifier to node conversion; migration from segmentable node to optical hub node; multi-wavelength solutions; and extended reach optical nodes and RF amplifiers.