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Lockheed Martin received $337 million in
orders to supply Apache Modernized Target
Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night
Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) systems
and services to the United States, United
Kingdom and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The awards are part of an initial task order
under a new indefinite-delivery/indefinite-
Lockheed Martin Delivering Next-Generation Apache Sensor
Systems Under New U.S. Army Contract
quantity (ID/IQ) contract signed with
the U.S. Army. The ID/IQ, with at least
$2 billion in potential orders and a five-
year period of performance, serves
as the contracting vehicle to provide
M-TADS/PNVS systems and services to
U.S. and international customers.
“Lockheed Martin is committed
Gainspeed cable access node from R-PHY to R-MACHPHY,
or vice versa, on the fly. This capability lets operators
choose the best approach to a node for a given use case. It
also enables an operator to seamlessly evolve from an R-PHY to
R-MACPHY deployment.
Unified Control – The Gainspeed access controller can
simultaneously support both R-PHY and R-MACPHY nodes,
expanding its current cable and fiber unified control capabilities.
This helps operators reduce costs and simplify network design
by using the same controller to manage all types of Nokia access
nodes deployed across HFC and fiber networks
Interoperability – Nokia is committed to full solution
interoperability and will support any R-PHY or R-MACPHY node
as part of its solution.
Liliane Offredo-Zreik, principal analyst at ACG, said: “The industry
has been consumed with the R-PHY vs R-MACPHY debate.
However, operators’ networks are far from homogeneous.
Operators need the flexibility to deploy the right solution in
each market. Nokia’s virtualized Distributed Access Architecture
offers operators this flexibility by virtualizing the CMTS function,
enabling them to place it in the most optimal location – data
center, headend, hub, OSP cabinet, or access node. This will
enable operators to deploy R-PHY, R-MACPHY, or a combination
of both. With the CCAP market projected to exceed $2B in 2021
– largely driven by DAA implementations starting in 2018 –
Nokia’s innovative solution will help position the company as a
key player in this fast-growing market.”
Cash Hagen, chief operations officer of WOW! Internet, Cable &
Phone, said: “Nokia is revolutionizing the cable industry with an
innovative new cable solution that gives operators the flexibility
to implement a distributed access architecture without being
handcuffed to a specific approach. Virtualizing the DAA not only
simplifies the network and drives cost savings, it also allows us
to accelerate the delivery of new services that ultimately provide
a better customer experience.”
Federico Guillén, president of Nokia’s Fixed Networks Business
Group, said: “Nokia is changing the game in the cable industry
with a vDAA solution that gives operators the flexibility to
support both Remote-PHY and Remote-MACPHY approaches.
While running the vCMTS on the node as part of a Remote-
MACPHY deployment will garner the most significant savings in
cost, space and power, there is no such thing as one size fits all.
Nokia’s enhanced cable solution gives operators the flexibility to
choose from a full range of options across both fiber and cable
to meet their unique network needs.”
Nokia’s Gainspeed product family offers cable operators a
Unified Cable Access solution that provides industry-leading
fiber, HFC and cable technology products and innovations. The
Nokia Gainspeed portfolio of cable access products includes:
Gainspeed Access Controller
Gainspeed Video Engine
Gainspeed Access Node SC-2D supporting both R-MACPHY
and R-PHY approaches along with DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1
Gainspeed Access Node SF-4X supporting 10G EPON and
DPoE
The new enhancements to Nokia’s Unified Cable Access solution
leverage the company’s expertise in virtualization , and are part
of its Intelligent Access approach to fixed access, helping make
broadband operations faster, better and smarter.
Join Nokia at SCTE 2017, booth 387, to see a demo of the
new enhanced solution and discover how we can help you
navigate the possibilities of the connected world to enable new
experiences in people’s lives each day.
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