Broadcom, a provider of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, has launched BCM6800, a new family of Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) gateway processors. The company said that family of GPON gateway processors are designed to facilitate the realisation of optical network terminals (ONTs) or optical network units (ONUs) used in conjunction with service provider passive optical networks (PONs).
According to Broadcom, the new product family provides integration utilising its 400 MHz dual core processor architecture, hardware-assisted gigabit bridging and routing, hardware-assisted IPsec security for virtual private network (VPN) termination, gigabit switch and PHYs, VoIP, and support for USB 2.0 host and devices.
The new family also offers support for Broadcom’s latest wireless LAN (WLAN) devices utilising PCI Express. The BCM6800 family includes TR-069 and OMCI management software.
Broadcom claimed that its new GPON devices enable high definition (HD) video, VoIP, high-speed internet (HSI), gaming, and higher bandwidth provisional services such as video-on-demand (VoD) and download of IP video content.
The BCM6800 product family is designed in a 65 nanometer (nm) CMOS process that provides high integration, low power consumption, and small footprint size, the company added.
Greg Fischer, vice president and general manager of Carrier Access line of business at Broadcom, said: Our entry into the GPON market complements our carrier access portfolio of highly integrated, versatile single-chip solutions for next generation broadband services by enabling gigabit networks and extending performance, cost and manageability of subscriber equipment.
“The global GPON standard provides next generation FTTH and FTTN opportunities and we look forward to extending our leading access technologies and investments in this area.
The Broadcom BCM6800 family of GPON devices are reportedly being shipped to early access customers.
