May 23, 2005 Mountain View, CA -- BroadLight has introduced its end-to-end (E2E) GPON platform, featuring the company's BL2000 GPON System-on-Chip (SoC), which is designed for optical network terminal (ONT) applications. The company says the platform can significantly speed time-to-market for ITU-T G.984-compliant GPON equipment.
The company says the platform delivers up to 2.5-Gbit/sec of packet and 155- Mbit/sec of TDM data, using GPON Encapsulated Mode (GEM) for up to 64 users on a single PON. The company says the platform enables carrier class IP-based services such as VoIP and IPTV, as well as legacy CATV for residential and native transport of T1/E1/J1 for businesses.
"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," asserts Andy Vought, CEO of BroadLight. "Our E2E 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."
According to the company, the platform includes the following:
* The company's BL3000 family of OLT MAC FPGAs with interfaces to support GEM- based transport of Gigabit Ethernet and TDM. Features of the devices include: configurable AES, Forward Error Correction (FEC), and Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA).
* The company's PONmaker ITU-T G.984 software stacks for OLT and ONT applications, to provide control and management of the PON system.
* OLT Transceivers, designed with a glueless interface to the company's GPON MAC.
* SFF MSA-compliant ONT transceivers with 2 wavelengths for all IP services, and a 3-wavelength transceiver module with an embedded RF video receiver, based on the company's CATV over PON technology.
* The company's BL2000 family of ONT SoC ASICs for SFU to MxU ONT applications.
* The company's ONT TDM GEM FPGA for T1/E1/J1 services.
According to the company, key features of its BL2000 GPON SoC include:
* GPON ITU-T G.984 MAC using GEM adaptation for packet and TDM services.
* 1.25 and 2.5-Gbit/sec SerDes and CDR circuitry, to enable glueless interfacing with low-cost GPON 2 and 3-wavelength transceivers.
* A high-performance packet processor for wire-speed data path classification and filtering, with the bandwidth and processing power required by IPTV applications.
* 10/100/1000 Ethernet MACs.
* A TDM GEM interface for the companion TDM GEM FPGA.
* An embedded CPU to enable versatile signaling and control plane capabilities.
* Software support including BSP for leading OSs, low level drivers, boot code, and packet bridging.
"The GPON market is heating up worldwide, because carriers are interested in its 2.5- Gbit/sec performance, 1:64 split ratio, and native transport of both Ethernet and TDM," concludes Michael Howard, principal analyst at Infonetics Research. "BroadLight's new E2E GPON is the first chipset family we've seen that can help manufacturers quickly produce low-cost GPON product sets."
The products will be available for sampling by December 2005, and will be on display at Supercomm 2005, in booth #73012.