Broadcom has announced that it will introduce a new family of Gigabit passive optical network (GPON) integrated access device (IAD) semiconductors to telecommunication providers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in China this year.
According to the company, its BCM6800 family of GPON gateway processors is designed to enable cost effective optical network terminals (ONTs) or optical network units (ONUs) used in conjunction with service provider networks. As a result, service providers that deploy these gateway processors are expected to have increased bandwidth for offerings, such as, triple play services, high definition (HD) video, gaming, wireless and voice over IP (VoIP) supporting Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN) applications.
The company said that its GPON products will offer Chinese telecommunications carriers passive optical network (PON) capabilities.
Greg Fischer, vice president and general manager of carrier access line business at Broadcom, said: Broadcom is pleased to provide our Chinese customers with a reliable and cost effective, stable, long term source of GPON silicon. The global GPON standard provides next generation FTTH and FTTN opportunities for China and we look forward to extending our leading access technologies and investments in this area.
Broadcom said that it will begin production of these GPON devices later this year.
