Broadcom GPON new products for the Chinese market

Broadcom GPON products will help Chinese service provider and FTTH fiber to the node solution, so as to provide more services to the overall system bandwidth at lower cost

June 22nd, global cable and wireless communications semiconductor market leader Broadcom (Bo Tong) Company (Nasdaq:BRCM) today announced that this year will be to the China Telecom service providers and equipment manufacturers to launch a new gigabit passive optical network (GPON) integrated access device (IAD) semiconductor chip series. The Broadcom BCM6800 series GPON gateway processor is used to implement a more economical optical network terminal (ONT) or optical network unit (ONU) used in conjunction with a service provider network. Therefore, using Broadcom BCM6800 series processor gateway service provider can provide a variety of services with high bandwidth and high quality such as triple play services, high-definition (HD) video, games, wireless and VoIP, support FTTH and light to the application node.

Broadcom GPON product has the incomparable high integration and high throughput performance, will provide high performance and rich passive optical network operators for the China Telecom (PON) function, these functions are based on Broadcom in Chinese broadband access market many years of experience accumulated as the foundation for the development of.

The GPON specification based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) G.984 GPON proposal, the proposal provides a deployment of passive optical network as the global standard for China operators, help Chinese operators to achieve interoperability based on economies of scale on the basis of the implementation of real cases and all over the world for reference. In addition, GPON also provides infrastructure operators with the existing time division multiplexing (TDM) voice network compatible network timing, to enable operators to transfer the existing TDM traffic to more affordable network, so as to obtain greater returns over the traditional business to lower operating costs.

The general manager of Broadcom company vice president and business operators of Greg access Fischer said: "Broadcom is pleased to provide reliable and affordable GPON chip for our customers China, and long-term stability to provide these chips. Through the leading position in DSL, Ethernet and wireless LAN products, we have established a strong brand influence in the Chinese market, we have made a solemn commitment to the market. The global GPON standard brings opportunities for China to achieve the next generation of fiber to the home and fiber to the node, and we look forward to expanding the scope of our leading access technologies in this area, and increase investment. "

Broadcom BCM6800 series GPON solution consists of a series of fiber to X (FTTX) products, covering the Gigabit bridge to all the integrated access device features. When the Broadcom leading ADSL2+, VDSL2 and Gigabit Ethernet products when used together with BCM6800 series GPON solutions consist of a complete fiber to the node or fiber to the building (FTTB) product portfolio, applicable to the remote node and multiple dwelling units.

Broadcom will begin production of these GPON devices later this year, and has begun to actively support customer design work.