VIDEO & FSAN

The rapid deployment of Full Service Access Networks (FSAN) is critical to the future of wireline service providers. With ATM and Ethernet access mechanisms prevalent within FTTx implementations, and both commonly used to deliver television, telephone, and Internet services, robust internetworking functionality (IWF) is essential.

With its comprehensive BRAS, IP edge routing, and ATM switching capabilities, net.com's SCREAM^® is perfectly suited to these complex and demanding architectures. Triple-play services using VDSL and ADSL2+ are aided by SCREAM's ATM switching and complex traffic management techniques – grooming and cross-connecting broadcast and VOD channels while eliminating jitter through complex token bucket shaping mechanisms.

The very same platform provides complete IP edge routing functions for interfacing with Internet service providers and features a comprehensive BRAS implementation for intelligent subscriber management when offering retail Internet services. Extensive IP/ATM interworking affords further advantages when operating within triple play environments: Converting an IP/Ethernet video feed for transport across an ATM-based VDSL access infrastructure and conversely ATM video feeds to Ethernet-based NGDLCs. Finally, full interdomain IP and ATM multicast support, enables duplication of video content for onward distribution to either wholesale service providers or retail subscribers.