{"id":37948,"date":"2021-03-05T13:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=37948"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T14:27:12","slug":"att-and-other-comms-firms-join-the-25gs-pon-msa-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2021\/03\/05\/att-and-other-comms-firms-join-the-25gs-pon-msa-group\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T and other comms firms join the 25GS-PON MSA Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 25GS-PON MSA Group has announced the addition of seven new member companies including AT&amp;T, CommScope, Cortina Access, Feneck, HiLight Semiconductor, Hisense Broadband and Semtech. These companies, along with the ten founding 25GS-PON MSA members, are enabling a move beyond the limitations of 10Gb\/s next-generation PON, the current state-of-the-art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 25GS-PON MSA was first announced on October 8, 2020 with the goal of promoting and accelerating the development of 25GS-PON technology. Since its formation, the 25GS-PON MSA Group has published version 1.0 of the 25 Gigabit Symmetrical Passive Optical Network specification, providing the basis for how 25GS-PON should be implemented to ensure basic functionality and interoperability across different vendors. The founding members of the 25GS-PON MSA Group include AOI, Chorus, Chunghwa Telecom, Ciena, MACOM, MaxLinear, NBN Co., Nokia, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd, and Tibit Communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe addition of such a wide range of network operators, equipment vendors and component suppliers to the 25GS-PON MSA is evidence of the technology\u2019s importance for 5G xHaul and enterprise services,\u201d said Jeff Heynen, Vice President, Broadband Access and Home Networking for Dell\u2019Oro Group<strong>.<\/strong> \u201c25G PON\u2019s ability to co-exist with XGS-PON and reuse existing fibre plant makes it extremely attractive to operators around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 25GS-PON MSA Group has announced the addition of seven new member companies including AT&amp;T, CommScope, Cortina Access, Feneck, HiLight Semiconductor, Hisense Broadband and Semtech. These companies, along with the ten founding 25GS-PON MSA members, are enabling a move beyond the limitations of 10Gb\/s next-generation PON, the current state-of-the-art. The 25GS-PON MSA was first announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,19,382,13],"tags":[14013,14014,10895,14018,14019,227,14017,14020,14016,1003,14015],"class_list":["post-37948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-networking","category-regional-news","category-telecom","category-top-stories","tag-25gs-pon-msa-group","tag-aoi","tag-att","tag-chorus","tag-chunghwa-telecom","tag-ciena","tag-macom","tag-maxlinear","tag-nbn-co","tag-nokia","tag-sumitomo-electric-industries"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37949,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37948\/revisions\/37949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}