Broadcom and BroadLight Team to Develop Highly Integrated Solutions for Residential Fiber-to-the-Premises Broadband Services
Broadcom has added the following News Release to its web site.
Date: 6/1/2004 9:01:00 AM
Broadcom Corporation, (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor solutions enabling broadband communications, and BroadLight
Inc., a leading supplier of semiconductors, software and transceivers for
fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) deployments, today announced joint solutions that
will enable the rapid production of cost-effective FTTP optical network units
(ONUs) for delivering voice, video and data services to residential users.
FTTP optical network units enable end-users to benefit from the advantages
of a fiber access network by converting the light signal from a fiber strand
into an electrical signal for carrying voice, video and data to and throughout
the home. The deployment of FTTP provides much higher bandwidth and lower
latency for the delivery of superior quality, consolidated multimedia
services, including broadcast video, video-on-demand, traditional telephony
and Internet access. Compared to ADSL and cable modem broadband services,
FTTP solutions deliver more than ten times the bandwidth with longer reach at
similar cost points.
According to a recent IDC market report by Sterling Perrin, the worldwide
revenue forecast for fiber access equipment, which IDC refers to as the last
mile technology for bringing optical fiber to the customer, will increase at a
37% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from $503 million in 2003 to
$2.4 billion by the end of 2008.
The Broadcom-BroadLight collaboration leverages both companies' expertise
in offering cost-optimized solutions for FTTP customer premises equipment
(CPE) and central office optical line terminators (OLT). The system design is
based on BroadLight's advanced broadband passive optical network (BPON)
transceivers and media access controllers (MACs) and Broadcom(R) high-speed
broadband access technologies for carrying voice, video and data to and
throughout the home. Broadcom and BroadLight are co-marketing the solutions
to telecommunications system vendors and service providers worldwide.
"FTTP deployments represent a strong movement by telecommunications
providers to address consumer demand for high-speed data, television and
telephony services," said Daniel Marotta, Group Vice President of Broadcom's
Broadband Communications Group. "Through our partnership with BroadLight, a
leader in the BPON component market, we can offer the most complete
semiconductor solutions for voice, video and data services to equipment
vendors of FTTP systems."
"We believe this partnership offers an unprecedented solution and
represents a significant milestone in the FTTP market's development," said
Andrew Vought, BroadLight's CEO. "As a leader in communications semiconductor
technology, Broadcom further strengthens BroadLight's leadership position in
the emerging PON market and, together, we are delivering the low-cost, high-
speed solutions that customers require."
BroadLight and Broadcom plan to showcase their integrated FTTP solutions at
Supercomm 2004 in Chicago, June 22 - 24, 2004, in Booth 22405.
About BroadLight
BroadLight delivers cost effective PON components that enable high
performance, end-to-end, easy-to-integrate FTTP solutions. BroadLight develops
standards-based digital, analog and optical communication components, software
stacks and algorithms for equipment vendors who are looking to integrate high-
performance passive optical network solutions for carriers and service
providers. With the best price/performance in the industry, BroadLight is a
world leading PON components vendor, providing the solution that is driving
the deployment of FTTP today. The company is committed to work closely with
equipment vendors and carriers to support them throughout the project planning
and integration process. BroadLight is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.
and has an R&D facility in Israel. More information about the company can be
found at http://www.broadlight.com .
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of
voice, video and data services. We design, develop and supply complete system-
on-a-chip (SoC) solutions incorporating digital, analog, radio frequency (RF),
microprocessor and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies, as well as
related hardware and software system-level applications. Our diverse product
portfolio addresses every major broadband communications market and includes
solutions for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes; high definition
television (HDTV); cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) modems and
residential gateways; high-speed transmission and switching for local,
metropolitan, wide area and storage networking; home and wireless networking;
cellular and terrestrial wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband network and security
processors; and SystemI/O(TM) server solutions. These technologies and
products support our core mission: Connecting everything(R).
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at
1-949-450-8700 or at http://www.broadcom.com.
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Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Laura Brandlin
Director of Marketing Communications
949-926-5108
lbrandlin@broadcom.com
BroadLight Press Contact
Diane Orr
Public Relations
408-377-0308
diane@taniscomm.com
Broadcom Technical Contact
John O'Neill
Director of Marketing, Broadband Communications Group
949-926-5959
joneill@broadcom.com
Broadcom Investor Relations Contact
T. Peter Andrew
Sr. Director, Investor Relations
949-926-5663
andrewtp@broadcom.com
BroadLight Technical Contact
Didi Ivancovsky
Founder, VP Products
didi@broadlight.com
SOURCE Broadcom Corporation and BroadLight Inc.
Trade Press, Laura Brandlin, Director of Marketing
Communications, +1-949-926-5108, or lbrandlin@broadcom.com , or Technical,
John O'Neill, Director of Marketing, Communications Group, +1-949-926-5959, or
joneill@broadcom.com , or Investor Relations, T. Peter Andrew, Sr. Director,
+1-949-926-5663, or andrewtp@broadcom.com , all of Broadcom Corporation; or
Press, Diane Orr, Public Relations, +1-408-377-0308, or diane@taniscomm.com ,
or Technical, Didi Ivancovsky, Founder, VP Products, didi@broadlight.com ,
both of BroadLight Inc.
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