PMC-Sierra Introduces Industry's First 10G EPON Reference Designs for FTTH Deployments
March 31 2008 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS) today announced the availability of
complete reference designs for 10Gbit/s IEEE 802.3av EPON Optical
Line Terminals (OLT) and Optical Network Units (ONU). The PAS8001
reference design for 10G OLTs and the PAS9001 reference design for
10G ONUs integrate all the functionality required from an OLT and
ONU running at 10Gbit/s, including third party commercial
transceivers, and leverage PMC-Sierra�s market-leading EPON
capabilities to improve system performance and reduce OEMs� time to
market. The availability of 10Gbit/s EPON systems will enable
carriers to further expand their Triple Play services,
Fiber-To-The-Building (FTTB) solutions, and lay the foundation for
future bandwidth-demanding applications. In addition, carriers will
be able to reduce capital and operating expenses by unifying their
FTTH and FTTB infrastructures. �PMC-Sierra�s 10G EPON development
platform enables our customers to be the first to offer carriers
10G solutions that are fully interoperable with legacy PON
equipment, and a cost-effective, standard upgrade path for their
next generation access network infrastructure,� said Victor
Vaisleib, vice president and general manager of PMC-Sierra�s FTTH
business unit. The PAS8001 and PAS9001 deliver 10Gbit/s
performance, pre-standard (draft 1.1) IEEE 802.3av compliance,
1G/10G co-existence with auto-detect, standard encryption,
high-performance backward-compatible Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation
(DBA) and commercially viable transceivers developed by a leading
transceiver vendor partner. PMC-Sierra�s 10G solution can operate
in a split ratio of up to 128 ONUs per OLT. As the next generation
of PMC-Sierra�s market leading 1G EPON devices, these solutions
fully coexist with more than six million EPON ONUs deployed
worldwide that are based on PMC-Sierra�s devices. Availability and
Customer Support The PAS8001 development kit for 10G OLTs and
PAS9001 development kit for 10G ONUs, both FPGA-based, are
available now for purchase orders. For more information, contact
PMC-Sierra at sales@pmc-sierra.com. About PMC-Sierra�s FTTH Family
of Products PMC-Sierra is the only supplier to support both EPON
(IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile) and GPON (ITU-T G.984)
standards. The Company�s gigabit PON products are based on the
robust GigaPASS� FTTH Architecture that achieves sustained gigabit
and greater data rates while providing a powerful 32-bit
programmable processing engine executing the real-time operating
system, middleware, and application-specific firmware required for
high-performance FTTH network access functions. PMC-Sierra
system-on-chip solutions provide end-to-end gigabit per second
bandwidth solutions linking central office equipment and customer
premise equipment. Optical line terminal (OLT) devices connect the
central office to the PON network and optical network unit (ONU) or
optical network terminal (ONT) devices connect customer premises to
the PON network. For more information, visit
www.pmc-sierra.com/ftth-pon. About PMC-Sierra PMC-SierraTM is a
leading provider of broadband communications and storage
semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless
infrastructure, storage, laser printers, and fiber access gateway
equipment. PMC-Sierra offers worldwide technical and sales support,
including a network of offices throughout North America, Europe,
Israel and Asia. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock
Market under the PMCS symbol. For more information, visit
www.pmc-sierra.com. Attachments: Figure 1: Next Generation 10G PON
Technology Co-Exists with Legacy 1G Technology For figures visit:
http://www.pmc-sierra.com/news_room/pdf/10G_figure.pdf For photos
visit: http://www.pmc-sierra.com/news_room/images/OLT.jpg
http://www.pmc-sierra.com/news_room/images/ONU.jpg Resources to
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