BroadLight Announces a Breakthrough in Reducing the Cost of Fiber-To-The-Home Equipment; Three Part PON Solution Available for Less Than $70.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers RAMAT GAN, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2003 BroadLight(TM), Inc., a leading supplier of communication semiconductors and optical transceivers, today announced a major milestone for reducing the cost of Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH (Fiber To The Home) See FTTP. ) Customer Premises Equipment See CPE. (CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment ). By establishing of a joint venture with a big fiber-optic vendor which will produce PON (Passive Optical Network) An optical point-to-multipoint access network. There are no optical repeaters or other active devices in a PON, hence the name "passive. ONU/ONT transceiver according to BroadLight superior design and using its burst mode technology, BroadLight succeeded to cut the transceiver prices dramatically. BroadLight offers a three-part PON solution that includes burst mode transceivers, PON controllers and software stacks for both Central Office (CO) and Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). "There is consensus in the market that PON is the best technology for FTTH. With BroadLight's new prices, it is now not only affordable but will also be an enabler for the technology," said Didi DIDI Digital Image Design Incorporated (New York) Ivancovsky, VP Products of BroadLight. "We are now offering a package deal of a burst mode transceiver and PON controller for less than $70 in large quantities. This enables a BOM (Bill Of Materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. ) cost for a CPE to be as low as $100." BroadLight offering includes an evaluation boards that integrates the three part solution and schematics for a complete CPE. This offering assist system vendors in cutting the cost of development and reducing time to market to about 6-9 months from the initiation of an FTTH project. About BroadLight, Inc. BroadLight is a fabless company Fabless Company The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) defines fabless as follows: Fabless (without fab) refers to the business methodology of outsourcing the manufacturing of silicon wafers, which hundreds of semiconductor companies have adopted. of digital, analog and optical communication semiconductors for the existing legacy networks as well as for the next generation networks. BroadLight line of products is comprised from multi-service / multi-protocol semiconductors and optical Transceivers as well as software and algorithms to facilitate cost-effective communication systems with traffic aggregation for different network environments. BroadLight's technology enables System Vendors to construct high-functionality and competitive low-cost systems so that Operators (Service-Providers) will be able to rapidly and economically deploy true, transmission-traffic convergence over communication infrastructures. BroadLight and XN23x are trademarks of BroadLight, Inc. |
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