AUGUST 2, 2010 By Stephen Hardy -- GPON chip vendor BroadLight has unveiled the BL23500, its third-generation GPON processor family.
The BL23500 devices, made via a 40-nm process, will combine a MIPS controller, the in-house developed RunnerGrid Network Processor, and a VoIP DSP, says Didi Ivancovsky, BroadLight founder and vice president of marketing. BroadLight will target the device family at both GPON ONTs and residential gateways. The first members of the chip family will become available during the fourth quarter of this year.
The SoCs will feature the new “Lilac” version of the RunnerGrid Network Processor, which boasts 2000 DMIPS and 15 Mpps, Ivancovsky says.
The BL23500 family will include:
- The 16x16-mm BL23570 for GPON VoIP SFU/gateway applications
- The 24x24-mm BL23530 for GPON VoIP SFUs designs
- The 16x16-mm BL23550 for GPON MDU applications
- The 16x16-mm BL23580, a GPON VoIP SFU/gateway application processor
- The 10x10-mm BL23510, for GPON SFU and SFP transceiver designs.
The first two devices on this list should be available by the end of this year, with the rest following in 2011, according to Ivancovsky.
The GPON processor family will be compatible with all OLTs on the market, support Active Ethernet applications, and feature a variety of power-saving features (including Energy Efficient Ethernet and power-saving modes) that make it the lowest-power family available, Ivancovsky asserts.
“Lower power consumption is a big selling point for operators looking for high-performance, low-cost, mass-market solutions,” said Jeff Heynen, directing analyst for broadband and video at Infonetics Research. “BroadLight’s third-generation 40-nm GPON processor family is an optimized solution taking operators’ needs into consideration and applying them to innovative new fiber access processors that deliver service processing capabilities, field proven interoperability, and low power consumption at very low costs.”
BroadLight also will leverage a consolidated software platform designed to enable a single software development environment for rapid development of SFU/gateway/MDU designs. The platform includes a highly interoperable OMCI provisioning stack as well as a residential gateway stack.
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