Mindspeed launches PMD product to streamline design and testing of PON equipment
MARCH 25, 2010 -- Mindspeed Technologies Inc., a supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, extended its family of physical media devices (PMDs).
The company’s PMDs are designed to reduce component count, while streamlining the development and testing of ONTs used to deliver FTTx multi-play services via fiber-access networks using Gigabit Ethernet passive optical network (GEPON) and Gigabit PON (GPON) technology.
Mindspeed’s M02098 programmable burst-mode laser driver includes an integrated limiting amplifier, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and digital-to-analog converter (DAC).
Mindspeed is showcasing the M02098 driver along with its optical PMD family at OFC/NFOEC 2010, in the company’s private suite #2648 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.
The M02098 driver incorporates the company’s dual closed-loop Eye-Minder technology for real-time monitoring and compensation for laser aging and temperature effects to reduce production testing requirements and lower overall ONT system costs. The M02098 driver can be implemented in a small form factor (SFF) or small form factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver or with a bi-directional optical sub-assembly (BOSA) that can be mounted directly onto the ONT board.
The M02098 laser driver is available now in production quantities.