ColorChip unveils triplexer PON transceiver platform

MARCH 22, 2007 -- ColorChip (search for ColorChip) has introduced the Meteor III Triplexer Transceiver Platform for FTTH ONT applications. This platform supports BPON and GPON optical transceiver modules for the PON market. The Meteor III platform is configurable to support FSAN compliance and meets the requirements in ITU G983.1 and G.983.3 for BPON applications or FSAN compliance, and G.894.2 and G.893.3 for GPON applications, the company says.

"Our triplexer transceiver platform was designed to meet the market needs for highly flexible ONU modules and low-cost solutions based on PLC technology. The Meteor III platform is based on ColorChip's proprietary SOG (SystemOnGlass), which enables reduced packaging costs, fully automated production, and high yielding modules, therefore reducing costs," says Moshe Price, CEO of ColorChip. The technology leverages similar automated systems used for surface mount technology.

ColorChip's triplexer transceiver platform is a single fiber, tri-channel full-duplex module combining WDM optics for the 1,310- and 1,490-nm wavelengths used for voice and data for upstream and downstream data communications, along with a 1,550-nm wavelength for RF CATV, on the PLC chip. The burst mode data transmitter, characterized by a very high optical efficiency according to the company, allows for high CW optical output power levels and low drive current, resulting in high reliability and end of life characteristics. Control circuitry is used to stabilize both the average optical power output and transmitter extinction ratio to insure stable performance of the module. The GPON module is fully MSA-8472 compliant.

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