Ascent’s AX3517 is a chassis GPON platform which support GPON/XG(S)PON and fully compliance with ITU-T G.984/G.987/G.988/G.9807 standards. Coordinate with Ascent's ONT, it completes the end-to-end optical last mile with up to 10 Gbps bandwidth for triple play services to residential and business customers.
• ITU-T G.984/G.987/G.988/G.9807 compliant 10gbps/2.5gbps downstream and 10Gbps/2.5bps/1.25Gbps upstream PON interface
• Hybrid platform for GPON/XG(S)PON technology
• Power/CSM redundance, PON protection
• 272*GPON/208*XG(S)PON/240*XG(S)PON & GPON combo PON ports in 11U chassis
• Hot swap modular design
• Advanced L2/L3 functions
• Abundant QoS functions
• Unified NMS platform
• Remote provision and management
Dimensions (W×D×H)  | 530 mm × 286 mm × 486 mm  | 
Weight  | 46 kg  | 
Power  | DC: ‑48 V (pluggable) Dual DC power redundancy  | 
Power Consumption  | 1600 W (typical)  | 
Uplink  | 4× 25GE/10GE + 4× 25GE/10GE interface on CSM 104× 25GE SFP28/10GE SFP+, 26× 100GE QSFP28  | 
PON  | 272× 16 GPON/208× XG(S)PON/240× GPON&XG(S) combo PON  | 
PON Fiber  | SM, BIDI  | 
PON Interface type  | SC/UPC  | 
Switch/Interface Specifications  | |
Switch Capacity  | 4.8 Tbps  | 
Flash Size  | 64 MB + 8 GB (CSM), 64 MB (PON)  | 
Memory Size  | 4 GB (CSM), 4 GB (PON)  | 
Split Ratio  | 1:64 (GPON), 1:128 (XG(S)PON)  | 
Bandwidth  | GPON: 1.25 Gbps (up), 2.5 Gbps (down) XGPON: 2.5 Gbps (up), 10 Gbps (down) XGSPON: 10 Gbps (up), 10 Gbps (down)  | 
PON Tx Power  | 3 dBm to 7 dBm (C+), 4 dBm to 8 dBm (N2a)  | 
PON Rx Sensitivity  | ‑30 dBm (C+), ‑29.5 dBm (N2a)  | 
PON Rx Overload  | ‑12 dBm (C+), ‑9 dBm (N2a)  | 
Wavelength  | PON: 1310 nm (up), 1490 nm (down) XG(S)PON: 1270 nm (up), 1577 nm (down)  | 
Compliance  | ITU‑T G.984/G.987/G.988/G.9807 IEEE 802.1D, Spanning Tree IEEE 802.1Q, VLAN IEEE 802.1w, RSTP IEEE 802.3ad, LACP Ethernet – II  | 
Environment  | |
Operating Temperature  | 0 °C to 40 °C  | 
Storage Temperature  | ‑40 °C to 70 °C  | 
Relative Humidity  | 10 % to 90 %, non‑condensing  | 
Features
PON  | Splitter Ratio: 1:128(GPON), 1:256(XG(S)PON) Support B+/C+(GPON), N1/N2(XG(S)PON) transceiver SN / Password / SN+Password ONU authentication FEC ONU Digital Diagnostic Monitor Rogue ONU Detection  | 
PTP  | Support IEEE 1588 V2, G.8265.1, G.8275.1, G.8275.2  | 
SyncE  | Support G.8261, G.8262, G.8264  | 
L2 
  | Line‑speed switch/forwarding 710K MAC address table Port‑based VLAN, Protocol‑based VLAN, 802.1q VLAN ONU‑based QinQ, 1:1/N:1 VLAN translate LACP/LAG STP/RSTP/MSTP Port Mirror Flow control / Back pressure Broadcast/DLF/Unknown Multicast storm control  | 
L3  | Switch Virtual Interface (SVI): IPv4/IPv6 Static Route Static/Dynamic ARP ICMP/Traceroute DHCP Server / DHCP Relay: IPv4/IPv6  | 
Multicast 
  | IGMPv1/v2 snooping MLDv1 snooping IGMP snooping with Proxy Fast Leave  | 
QoS (Quality of Service) 
  | IEEE 802.1p, 8 CoS queue SP/WRR/SP+WRR IPv4 TOS/IP Predence Classification/Shaping/Policy/Rate limit/Schedule DBA ONU‑based bandwidth control in downstream  | 
Security 
  | SSH ACL User isolation Encryption in PON downstream DHCP Option82 / PPPoE+  | 
OAM 
  | FTP/TFTP, Ethernet OAM SNMP v1 & v2c, Telnet (IPv4/IPv6), Console (CLI) In‑band/out‑band management Auto provision for ONU configuration PM  | 
