PMC-Sierra Makes 10G EPON White Paper Available

PMC-Sierra has released "10G EPON Brings Advantages to the Fiber Access Network," a white paper that details how 10 Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (10G EPON) technology will spur deployment of IPTV and other high-bandwidth applications. PMC-Sierra said an attractive new option is 10G EPON technology, which offers a ten-fold leap in bandwidth to 10 Gbit/s in the broadband access network over fiber while providing core protocol compatibility with current 1G EPON solutions. The paper, written by Lior Khermosh, chief system architect for PMC-Sierra's FTTH business and Gilad Aloni, PMC-Sierra EPON product manager, provides an overview of 10G EPON technology. PMC-Sierra said that it introduced the complete reference designs for 10Gbit/s IEEE 802.3av EPON Optical Line Terminals (OLT) and Optical Network Units (ONU) in... [read full story]