Some ISP’s already have a wide range of access-technologies in their product portfolio, but even more are looking into deploying emerging technologies such as VDSL2, WiMAX and different fiber-solutions (FTTx, active or passive). One of the challenges with delivering many different access-technologies is the CPE. You typically end up with several different CPE-models in the network, increasing not only the technical complexity but also the challenges for customer support, logistics and inventory management. In the end all of these things increase the operational costs for an ISP.

ZyXEL’s new Dual-WAN product (called P2602HW-Fx) is equipped with 2 WAN interfaces: ADSL2+ and Ethernet. With this unit you can use the same hardware for ADSL2+ and all other access technologies, which support Ethernet WAN (xPON, WiMAX, Fibre, VDSL2, Ethernet etc. with a simple media converter, i.e. a bridged modem) – you simply change the WAN interface by using the physical switch on the backside of the Home Gateway (still only using one firmware – no software change is needed). P2602HW-Fx has a very high performance of up to 200 Mbps throughput, supports many different kinds of QoS and also TR-069/104/64.

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