Broadcom has announced a family of Gigabit passive optical network (GPON) integrated access devices for the telecoms market in China.
The BCM6800 range of gateway processors are intended to support high definition (HD) video, gaming, wireless and voice over IP (VoIP) supporting fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) and fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) applications.
The GPON specification is based on the ITU G.984 GPON recommendation andf is tailored for the Chinese passive optical networks market.
"GPON further offers network timing that is compatible with existing time division multiplexing (TDM) voice networks in carrier infrastructures that allows carriers to transition existing TDM traffic to a more cost effective network, resulting in a greater revenue return on legacy services with corresponding declines in operating costs," said Broadcom.
According to Greg Fischer, v-p and general manager of Broadcom's Carrier Access line of business: "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."
Production of these GPON devices will start later this year.