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Over the years cabinets tend to get crammed with many additional network components as technology evolves for the delivery of new services. But extra equipment can often push a cabinet beyond its thermal limits, raising the internal temperature and reducing the reliability and working lifespan of the equipment inside. Not to mention the many expensive truck rolls to fix issues with equipment that is working outside or at the edge of its specified operational limits.
Cabinet parts also break or wear down; power systems become overloaded, and sometimes upgrade or replacement parts are no longer available from the original vendor. Yet a full system upgrade or cabinet replacement may not be necessary or even warranted at a given location.
What’s the solution?
Choose one of TXCO’s many off-the-shelf upgrade solutions for existing outside plant cabinets. And if you need something that does not yet exist, they can custom tailor a solution for your specific needs.
Their upgrade solutions for existing cabinets include:
- Cabinet specific fan trays for additional air flow and cooling
- Generic or cabinet specific door mounted heat exchanger units
- Cabinet ceiling damper actuator upgrade (from 12V to 48V design with alarms)
- Cabinet specific rectifier upgrades including remotely manageable and redundant system designs
- Generic of cabinet specific Hubbell upgrade kits for generator hookup
- Cabinet specific battery trays for installation of additional battery capacity
But what if you want to install the kit yourself? They can help there too. They can train your team on site during the first install. Once they learn all the details of the process, they will certify your installers, allowing them to continue to install that kit model in your network while maintaining your TXCO guarantee.
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As a designer of independent solutions, they will work with any systems vendor’s equipment – both old and new. This same independence ensures that their solutions are unbiased towards any given system. You choose the products that best provide your network upgrade path, and they make it work with your existing outside plant cabinets. The benefits to using TXCO’s retrofits kits are many:
- Choose any system vendor’s solution and not be tied to a specific provider
- Mix and match network components as required
- Design out discontinued or unsupported equipment without a wholesale replacement
- Receive a tested and certified mixed vendor solution, almost impossible to source from a single systems vendor
- Upgrade power or increase space in existing cabinets to support new equipment
- Complete documentation for the entire kit in one package
- Installation training and support including detailed MOPs
- Rest assured in a 3-year warranty covering the entire installation
Their fully integrated solutions include all cabling, power, circuit protection, alarms and circuit schematics …and most important, save tens of thousands of dollars per location when compared to complete cabinet replacement.
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As a designer of independent solutions, they will work with any systems vendor’s equipment – both old and new. This same independence ensures that their solutions are unbiased towards any given system. You choose the products that best provide your network upgrade path, and they make it work with your existing outside plant cabinets. The benefits to using TXCO’s retrofits kits are many:
- Choose any system vendor’s solution and not be tied to a specific provider
- Mix and match network components as required
- Design out discontinued or unsupported equipment without a wholesale replacement
- Receive a tested and certified mixed vendor solution, almost impossible to source from a single systems vendor
- Upgrade power or increase space in existing cabinets to support new equipment
- Complete documentation for the entire kit in one package
- Installation training and support including detailed MOPs
- Rest assured in a 3-year warranty covering the entire installation
Their fully integrated solutions include all cabling, power, circuit protection, alarms and circuit schematics …and most important, save tens of thousands of dollars per location when compared to complete cabinet replacement.
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TXCO Launches New MBU/MDU Mounting Kits for 7200 Series ONTs
New Kits Yield Major Improvement for FTTH Service Delivery to MDUs
RICHARDSON, TX–(MARKET WIRE)–Aug 22, 2007 — TXCO (OTC BB:TXPO.OB – News), a leading provider of GPON Optical Network Terminal (ONT) solutions for service providers worldwide, announced a new set of Multi-Business Unit/Multi-Dwelling Unit (MBU/MDU) mounting kits designed to significantly lower installation costs and improve service in multi-tenant FTTP-based service delivery applications.
Building off the flexibility of TXCO’s industry-leading Power Over Ethernet (PoE) powered 7200 series mini ONTs, the new kits enable the easy installation of multiple ONTs in higher density MBU/MDU applications. By converging ordinary Single-Family Unit (SFU) ONTs into an MBU/MDU bundle, service providers benefit from lower start up costs compared to expensive shelf-based units, and are provided with a wide range of ONTs with which to deliver the specific set of services required for each customer.
Each MBU/MDU kit includes all the necessary components to mount a number of 7200 series mini ONTs, including mounting and cable management hardware, enclosure and optional optical splitter. Various enclosures are available for both indoor and outdoor applications.
Powering a shelf-based MDU is often problematic for service providers, with landlords often not wanting to accept responsibility for the provision of bulk power. By using the data service cable, TXCO’s PoE powering capability allows each individual ONT to be back-powered from an FTTP PowerHubTM UPS installed inside the subscriber’s home, relieving the service provider from installing additional power cabling while making each subscriber responsible for powering the ONT serving their home.
The demarcation point where the 7200-based MDU kit is located is optimally selected based on fiber location and inside wiring configurations. Wiring closets, where power is usually limited, now become a convenient location for TXCO’s MDU to be installed.
“MDUs have proven to be the most problematic FTTP installations for services providers worldwide. The design and installation of FTTP in MDUs is still an expensive and complex undertaking because of different architectures, building materials, wiring configurations, powering issues, and the agendas of landlords, tenants, and carriers. ONT powering, battery backup, and battery maintenance add even further complexity,” says Michael C. Shores, TXCO’s President and CEO. “Our new MDU kits enable any mix of our standard 7200 series SFU ONTs to be deployed as an MDU bundle, bypassing the traditional bottlenecks and expense for such deployments when using shelf-based MDUs. Each customer becomes responsible for providing their own power, it requires no additional power cabling and can be flexibly served with the specific services they require,” adds Shores.
Conventional MDU service delivery platforms also represent a traffic constriction point not present in typical FTTP delivery to single family homes. Shelf-based MDU platforms use complex traffic aggregation methods to enable a single PON feed to serve MDU dwellers, with the resultant service often being of lower grade because of traffic over-subscription. In contrast TXCO’s ‘passive MDU’ configuration enables the carrier to deliver the same grade of service it delivers to the single family residence to the MDU dweller, and in the same manner.
TXP’s new MDU kits will be available starting Q4 this year.
About TXCO
TXCO Corporation is an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) for the telecommunications industry. Based in Richardson, Texas, TXCO has three primary business units: TXCO-Texas Prototypes, TXCO-Retrofit Solutions, and TXCO-ONT Solutions. TXCO-Texas Prototypes provides pre-manufacturing services for the electronics industry that help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) bring products to market both faster and more cost effectively. TXCO-Retrofit Solutions provides custom engineering kits to enable ILEC’s (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) to upgrade their local access service delivery infrastructure at minimum cost and time. TXCO’s retrofit kits enable a wide range of next generation telecom platforms to easily fit into the variety of remote cabinets that have been broadly deployed by ILEC’s over the last 30 years. TXCO-ONT Solutions comprises the former Siemens’ Optical Network Terminal (ONT) development team hired in late 2006. This group develops and markets via an ODM model the iPhotonics family of ONT products to both OEMs and ILECs to be private-label branded. The ONT technology terminates the passive optical network at the home or business location, and enables integrated voice, video and high-speed internet access.
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New All-Inclusive Cabinet Solution Lowers Costs for Low Line Count Deployments
RICHARDSON, TX–(MARKET WIRE)–Aug 23, 2007 — TXCO (OTC BB:TXPO.OB – News), a leading provider of OSP cabinet retrofit solutions, announced today the launch of its new Armadillo RE-100 cabinet. The Armadillo, optimized for applications of 100 lines or less, offers a fully self-contained solution for low cost access deployments and significantly lowering installation costs when compared to pad mounted cabinet solutions.
The Armadillo represents a new generation of cabinet for applications at the periphery of the network, providing mounting space for any 19″ rack mount system with a height of 2 RU or less. Within its fully sealed GR-487 compliant enclosure, the Armadillo provides:
Integrated cooling consisting of fan, heatsink and solar shield
Termination and protection for 100 copper lines
Termination, spooling and routing for transport fibers
AC or DC (Express) power supply depending on model selected
Complete environmental and power alarms
Designed for installation in close proximity to end-user customers, the Armadillo was designed with visual appeal in mind, offering a low profile, aesthetically pleasing beige powder coat finish, and mounting arrangements for installation to building studs that are concealed by the cabinet body. A mounting kit is also available for pole mount applications.
“The deployment cost of a pad mounted cabinets is increasingly becoming prohibitively expensive for service delivery applications of 100 lines or less,” says Paul Forzisi, TXCO’s Vice President of Marketing. “The Armadillo represents the first fully integrated cabinet solution that includes everything a successful remote deployment requires, most importantly the cooling features that are so critical for the latest generation of access systems. Thanks to the intrinsic cooling features developed as part of the enclosure, its thermal capacity is equal to pad mounted cabinets several times its size,” adds Forzisi.
As service providers’ networks continue to extend further from their central offices, solutions like TXCO’s Armadillo are expected to represent an increasing portion of the OSP access infrastructure for last-mile service delivery. To serve this market segment, TXCO also offers a degree of customization to the RE-100 to meet the specific needs of each access vendor’s system, including small FTTH Optical Line Terminals and Gigabit Ethernet products. TXCO’s standard RE-100 is available immediately.
About TXCO
TXCO Corporation is an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) for the telecommunications industry. Based in Richardson, Texas, TXCO has three primary business units: TXCO-Texas Prototypes, TXCO-Retrofit Solutions, and TXCO-ONT Solutions. TXCO-Texas Prototypes provides pre-manufacturing services for the electronics industry that help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) bring products to market both faster and more cost effectively. TXCO-Retrofit Solutions provides custom engineering kits to enable ILEC’s (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) to upgrade their local access service delivery infrastructure at minimum cost and time. TXCO’s retrofit kits enable a wide range of next generation telecom platforms to easily fit into the variety of remote cabinets that have been broadly deployed by ILEC’s over the last 30 years. TXCO-ONT Solutions comprises the former Siemens’ Optical Network Terminal (ONT) development team hired in late 2006. This group develops and markets via an ODM model the iPhotonics family of ONT products to both OEMs and ILECs to be private-label branded. The ONT technology terminates the passive optical network at the home or business location, and enables integrated voice, video and high-speed internet access.
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