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BroadLight Showcases GPON
Online staff -- Electronic News, 5/23/2005
Keeping it money on the promise of that last mile of fiber to the home, BroadLight is unveiling an end-to-end GPON system (Gigabit passive optical network).
Last year the Mountain View, Calif.-based company rolled out a BPON optical network controller for the central office during the big communications trade show Supercomm.
This year at the show BroadLight will showcase this new GPON system that offers higher speeds and more components, including PONmaker software, OLT (optical network terminal) MAC, OLT (optical line terminal) and ONT tranceivers and the BL2000 family of ONT SoCs. ONTs are the devices that sit in the home or office and OLTs are the devices in the carriers’ central offices.
“Just as BroadLight enabled the ITU-T compliant and interoperable BPON market in North America, we intend to emerge as the world leader in GPON,” said Andy Vought, CEO, in a statement. “Our end-to-end GPON is the culmination of extensive dialog with customers and carriers and we are currently engaged with all the major players to win GPON designs. As a result, we are confident that our SoC development is the right solution for the low-cost ONT.”
BroadLight’s GPON system offers up to 2.5 gigabits per second of packet and 155 megabits per second of TDM data using GPON Encapsulated Mode (GEM) for up to 64 users on a single PON, the company said, enabling carrier class IP-based services such as VoIP and IPTV as well as legacy cable TV for residential and native transport of T1/E1/J1 for businesses.
The higher speeds available and services that they enable will encourage carriers to seriously look at GPON technology, according to one analyst.
“The GPON market is heating up worldwide, because carriers are interested in its 2.5 gigabit per second performance, 1:64 split ratio, and native transport of both Ethernet and TDM,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst and co-founder of Infonetics Research, in a statement. “The first vendor that can deliver a GPON SoC is in a good position to capture design wins. BroadLight’s new end-to-end GPON is the first chipset family we’ve seen that can help manufacturers quickly produce low-cost GPON product sets.”
