PMC-Sierra and DASAN Networks Announce Major EPON Equipment Deployment Contract with KT (Korea Telecom).Nearly One Million Subscribers in Seoul, Korea, Expected to Gain FTTH (Fiber To The Home) See FTTP. Access in 2007 Using DASAN Equipment Based on PMC-Sierra's EPON See PON. Chip Set; Seoul Becomes Second Capital City in Asia to Deploy FTTH in Volume SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS PMCS PMC Sierra (stock symbol) PMCS Project Management Control System PMCS partial mission-capable, supply (US DoD) PMCS Preventive Maintenance Checks & Services PMCS Professional Military Comptroller School ), a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors, and DASAN Networks, Inc., Korea's leading supplier of broadband access equipment, today announced that KT (Korea Telecom) has selected DASAN Networks for deployment of Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) equipment in the greater metropolitan area of Seoul, Korea. DASAN's gigabit per second EPON solution, based on PMC-Sierra's FTTH chip set using its GigaPASS[TM] architecture, is capable of delivering premium-grade triple-play services - voice, data and video - to Korea's growing FTTH subscriber base. DASAN provides ONUs (Optical Network Units) for FTTH Customer Premises Equipment See CPE. and OLTs (Optical Line Terminal) FTTH equipment for central office equipment (COs). DASAN Networks expects the number of subscribers under this deployment to reach 800,000 in the 2007 calendar year. "Korea has consistently been a leader in deploying broadband access technologies and they now join Japan in selecting PMC-Sierra-based EPON FTTH technology for widespread deployment," said Victor Vaisleib, general manager of the FTTH Business Unit at PMC-Sierra. "To be chosen for deployment in Seoul, the nation's capital, is a significant honor. This accomplishment solidifies our position as the worldwide leader in FTTH silicon." "Korea is committed to high-volume deployment of FTTH technology and we are pleased to win this contract with PMC-Sierra as they are the only silicon supplier with experience in deploying gigabit per second bandwidth FTTH in the millions of units," said Min Woo Nam, chief executive officer, DASAN Networks, Inc. "We continue to be impressed with PMC-Sierra's highly integrated solutions and OAM (Operations Administration Maintenance) Refers to managing and maintaining a network or network device. The P in "OAM&P" adds "provisioning" to the list, which is a telephone company term for setting up a service. (Operations, Administration, Management), which enable easier installation and support. Our partnership will enable us to meet our goal of delivering cost-effective, reliable, and high-performance FTTH network equipment supporting triple-play services of video, voice, and data." A 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. (Passive Optical Network) network delivers gigabit per second bandwidth to the consumer using high-bandwidth optical fiber instead of copper wiring. EPON-based FTTH deployments lower the cost of network maintenance because the PON infrastructure requires no active electronics and delivers an order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. greater bandwidth over traditional copper-based access technologies. This bandwidth enables the low-cost delivery of bandwidth-intensive services such as video services, 10-40 megabit per second A megabit per second (abbreviated as Mbit/s, Mbps, or mbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000,000 bits per second. Because there are 8 bits in a byte, a transfer speed of 8 megabits per second (8 Mbps) is equivalent to 1,000,000 bytes and greater data access and integrated VoIP telephone services. About DASAN Networks DASAN Networks, Inc. is recognized as the market leader in providing broadband access solutions in the pioneering Korean VDSL See DSL. VDSL - Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line and Metro Ethernet equipment market. With key customers in Korea, Japan, China and Europe, it has demonstrated worldwide technology leadership in IP-Ethernet and IP-DSLAM technologies and provides a full range of leading-edge IP products to its global customers. It offers both OLT (Central Office equipment) and ONU ONU Organisation des Nations Unies (French: United Nations) ONU Organização das Nações Unidas (Portuguese: United Nations) ONU Organizacion de Naciones Unidas (Spanish: United Nations) (Customer Premise equipment) GE-PON network access systems. The company was established in 1993, registered sales of over $150 million USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. in the FY06 (10/01/05 to 09/30/06), and had over 480 employees as of September 2006. In 2004, the company became a subsidiary of Siemens, and Siemens owns 7,900,000 million shares representing 52.4% of the voting stocks of DASAN. For more information, please visit http://www.dasannetworks.com. About PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra(TM) is a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless infrastructure, storage, laser printers and customer premises equipment. PMC-Sierra offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a network of offices throughout North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the PMCS symbol and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com. Photo: EPON ONU Reference Design - Available on Request at publicrelations@pmc-sierra.com Photo: PAS6201 EPON ONU Device - Available on Request at publicrelations@pmc-sierra.com Resources to Extend Your Product Knowledge and Understanding PMC-Sierra FTTH Products: www.pmc-sierra.com/ftth-pon PMC-Sierra White Papers: www.pmc-sierra.com/whitepaper PMC-Sierra Webinars: www.pmc-sierra.com/webinars (c) Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2007. All rights reserved. PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. is a registered trademark of PMC-Sierra, Inc. in the United States and other countries. PMC-SIERRA, PMCS, "Enabling connectivity. Empowering people." and GigaPASS are trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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