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CHICAGO--Motorola moved out of the wireless pavilion and onto the main show floor at Supercomm, demonstrating wireline products, including its newest wireline IPTV solution and a new class of communications servers optimized for converged wireless and wireline communications.

At the show, Motorola demonstrated its new AXS2200 optical line terminal which combines fiber and copper access into a single platform. The AXS220 gives service providers the flexibility to provide triple-play services from one broadband access platform via BPON, GPON, DSL and Ethernet.

“Motorola isn’t known as a wireline supplier,” said Bruce Swail, vice president and general manager of telecom access solutions at Motorola. However, the company decided that carriers would want to converge wireless and wireline networks, something Motorola CEO Ed Zander calls “seamless mobility.”

With the Next Level acquisition in 2003, Motorola gained a strategy for video over copper wires. In fact, Motorola is the largest deployer of video over copper solutions. In fact, Verizon chose Motorola as an alternative supplier for network equipment as it rolls out its FTTP network. “We’ve gone from being a new entrant to becoming a major supplier to Verizon, almost overnight,” said Swail.

Motorola already has experience in video, ever since it acquired General Instrument in January 2000. Today Motorola makes digital set-top boxes, which can be found in 30 million to 40 million homes. The knowledge Motorola has gained developing set-top boxes for cable will help the company deliver video solutions to telcos, says Eduardo Conrado, senior director of global marketing at Motorola. “Expect to see more and more of Motorola in this space.”