PMC-Sierra announces “industry’s first” demonstration of 10G EPON
(Technology News, 03 Jul 2008 )
PMC-Sierra has announced the industry’s first demonstration of 10Gbit/s IEEE 802.3av EPON. The demonstration, based on PMC-Sierra’s complete reference designs for 10Gbit/s EPON, the PAS8001 for 10G Optical Line Terminals (OLT) and the PAS9001 for 10G Optical Network Units (ONU), was conducted at Optinet China, May 28-29, in Beijing, China. The reference designs 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 PAS8001 and PAS9001 deliver 10Gbit/s performance, pre-standard 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 EPON devices, these new solutions coexist with more than six million EPON ONUs deployed worldwide that are based on PMC-Sierra’s devices.
