Broadcom Drives G.fast into the Mainstream with New DSL Infrastructure Device Family
13 October 2016 - 3:51AM
Broadcom Limited (NASDAQ:AVGO) today announced the availability of
the industry’s most scalable platform for G.fast DSL service
provider infrastructure. With a 4X reduction in device count and
improvement in power dissipation of up to 40%, the Broadcom®
BCM65400 family of devices enables the creation of a complete
portfolio of G.fast systems with simultaneous VDSL and G.vector
capability, from reverse-powered DPUs to high-capacity DSLAMs.
Improving on Broadcom’s production-deployed
previous architectures, the BCM65400 incorporates eighth-generation
FirePath® DSPs, a new vectoring core, and a complete set of
1G-to-10G datapath interfaces. These new resources allow the
family to offer the industry’s lowest power dissipation, scale to
the highest line densities, and provide the benefits promised by
recent G.fast amendments, including support for the new 212MHz
profile, with aggregate speeds of up to 2Gbps, and dynamic time
allocation (DTA).
Broadcom’s G.fast solutions offer the unique
ability to fall back to VDSL2/ADSL standards, in addition to
G.fast, with simultaneous, independent vectoring domains, enabling
the operator to update central office equipment independently from
the customer premise. Building upon this, the 65400 expands the
addressable market for G.fast to point-to-point coaxial cable,
often installed in multi-dwelling units (MDUs), apartment buildings
and other high-density housing.
“With our second generation G.fast
infrastructure chipset, we set out to deliver a scalable platform
that system vendors could use for the full range of G.fast system
densities,” said Greg Fischer, senior vice president and general
manager of Broadband Carrier Access, Broadcom. “Aligning this new
configuration with our ongoing commitment to build comprehensive,
industry-leading support for the new capabilities of the G.fast
standard, we believe the BCM65400 offers a uniquely competitive
solution for our DSL system vendor partners and the operators they
serve.”
“As we move from G.fast field trials to an
expanded pilot, Openreach requires a flexible silicon platform that
covers the full range of line densities in our diverse
infrastructure and maximizes rate and reach performance,” said
Peter Bell, director network portfolio, Openreach, British
Telecom’s local network business. “We are encouraged that Broadcom
has developed a scalable G.fast solution that is aligned with our
roadmap.”
“Gigabit services for consumer households have
become the gold standard for connectivity, and service providers
have focused investment on deploying PON further into
their networks,” said John Kendall, principal analyst, Connected
Home at IHS Markit Technology. “Even as providers provision
their networks for next generation bandwidth speeds, DSL is still a
very important market segment. G.fast provides a powerful tool for
providers seeking to deploy fiber to the most financially sensible
point, in order to maximize return on capital investment.”
The Broadcom BCM65400 family of devices is
sampling today and available through distributors worldwide.
About Broadcom Limited Broadcom Limited
(NASDAQ:AVGO) is a leading designer, developer and global supplier
of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity
solutions. Broadcom Limited’s extensive product portfolio
serves four primary end markets: wired infrastructure,
wireless communications, enterprise storage and industrial &
other. Applications for our products in these end markets include:
data center networking, home connectivity, broadband access,
telecommunications equipment, smartphones and base stations, data
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