With the ever increasing changes in technology, broadband system operators providing HFC or business networks find themselves required to support a wide variety of analog and digital networking technologies. At the same time, operators need to provide the optical paths to carry newer technologies. While supporting all of these technologies, operators must also achieve maximum utilization of fiber assets. Through the use of standard 1310 nm, CWDM and DWDM transmitters, a major saving in optical infrastructure is attained and more efficient operations are created

IPITEK's broadband networking family addresses these applications with a broad group of products that may be combined to provide a complete optical platform to address transport of signals for many applications. Caeful attention to product design provides the highest levels of service. A full choice of optical components assures the most efficient design. AST has been designed to provide complete services for transport of all types of analog and digital signals with complete interchangeability and within a common chassis.

The technical and system oriented design of IPITEK's new AST broadband transport system helps broadband providers to meet these objectives is. Created with a wide range of transmitters, the basic optical system supports all types of signals that can be aggregated and transported over a single optical fiber. At the same time, the flexibility of the AST system can provide all types of ring, point-to-point, FTTH or other optical networks to meet the growing requirements supporting today's HFC systems. The AST system offers full redundancy architectures, assuring the highest level of protection. All of the AST system elements can be used to create the most robust systems for virtually any application. The accompanying drawing displays a combination of applications which are easily carried over the AST system.