Hitachi's Salira HeadEnd equipment is designed to integrate seamlessly with the equipment in your existing network.
On the network side, the Salira IEEE 802.3ah compliant Optical Line Terminal (OLT) products connect to Layer 2/Layer 3 switch/routers at the edge network. Each Passive Optical Network (PON) emanating from the head-end equipment is connected to multiple Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) devices using a single fiber strand.
This fiber is fed through a passive optical splitter and divided into multiple distribution fibers that connect to Salira CPE devices. This configuration forms a Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GEPON). On the head-end side, Hitachi's Salira OLTs come in high-density and low-density versions for use either at the headend or at intermediate nodes.