Huawei selects BroadLight's PON technology for global fiber deployments

April 11, 2005 Mountain View, CA -- Huawei Technologies has selected BroadLight's PON platform for both central office optical line terminal (OLT) and customer premise optical network terminal (ONT) equipment, including ITU-T PON controllers, transceivers, and software. According to a press release, Huawei is expected to deploy the PON products in volume throughout the world.

"This is not only a major win for BroadLight, but also for the ITU-T standard, which is expected to become mainstream in Asia," contends Andy Vought, CEO of BroadLight.

"We view PON fiber as the next great broadband technology that is capable of leading us into the future with required bandwidth," affirms Ai Wei, senior vice president at Huawei. "We chose BroadLight because it was the only company that could provide technology on both ends of the line, which helped us drive down costs and get to market faster."

BroadLight's ITU-T PON controllers XN230 (ONT) and XL230 (OLT) support both nominal and enhanced BPON standard rates (G.983, 1.25 Gbit/sec downstream; 155 Mbit/sec upstream), and provide framing, media access, SERDES, CDR, cell and packet transmission, queue management, DBA, traffic protection, and out-of-band management functions.

The company's PON transceiver product line addresses OLT and ONT applications for two or three wavelength services with industrial temperature range capability. The company's three wavelength ONT transceiver is equipped with an embedded CATV receiver supporting both optical and RF performance.

The company's software packages enable a variety of PON functions, with features ranging from low-level drivers and communications and management protocols to dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) algorithms and traffic protection.