The 1 GHz Starline® BLN100 is backward compatible with the substantial installation of the Motorola Broadband Line Extender (BLE) amplifier housing base.

The benefit of the BLN100 is that it can easily convert existing amplifier locations to optical nodes by extending fiber outward from the main node or splice enclosure. This type of node segmentation, using satellite or fiber deep nodes, is an incremental step toward extending fiber closer to the premises and leveraging the existing HFC infrastructure to deliver higher bandwidth per subscriber.