Sep 6 2009
At The 11th China International OPTO ELECTRONIC Expo (CIOE 2009), OneChip Photonics today announced its new family of high-performance, low-cost Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)-based Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) transceivers. OneChip's fully integrated transceivers are designed for Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) and Optical Network Units (ONUs), which are deployed at service provider central offices and at customer premises, respectively. These transceivers will help system providers and carriers deploy Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) more cost-effectively than ever before – and meet consumer and business demand for high-bandwidth voice, data and video services.
OneChip Photonics develops and manufactures low-cost, high-performance optical transceivers – based on monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) in Indium Phosphide (InP) – for access networks and other mass-market broadband applications. OneChip's breakthrough approach and technology will remove the cost and performance barriers that have been impeding the ubiquitous deployment of Fiber-to-the-Home and enable new business and consumer broadband applications.
"OneChip's new EPON transceivers are the first fully integrated optical access transceivers on the market," said Jim Hjartarson, CEO of OneChip Photonics. "They will give system providers and carriers the ability to significantly lower the cost and boost the performance of their FTTP networks, while meeting business and consumer demand for high-bandwidth voice, data and video services."
OneChip's new optical modules include OLT transceivers that provide a 1.25 Gb/s or 2.5 Gb/s downstream and a 1.25 Gb/s or 2.5 Gb/s upstream data link in a single fiber, using a 1490 nm optical wavelength continuous-mode transmitter and a 1310 nm optical wavelength burst-mode receiver. The offering also includes ONU transceivers that provide a 1.25 Gb/s or 2.5 Gb/s downstream and a 1.25 Gb/s or 2.5 Gb/s upstream data link in a single fiber, using a 1490 nm optical wavelength continuous-mode receiver and a 1310 nm optical wavelength burst-mode transmitter. OneChip's new EPON ONU transceivers are compliant with IEEE Standard 802.3ah™-2004 1000BASE-PX20-U and its extensions, SFF MSA2000 and FCC 47 CFR Part 15, Class B standards.
"In recent years, PICs have transformed long-haul optical networks, but Heavy Reading has long felt that PICs also have a tremendous role to play in the future of fiber access networks, where per-subscriber costs are so crucial to operator success," said Sterling Perrin, senior analyst at Heavy Reading, an independent market research organization. "With the announcement of these fully integrated EPON transceivers, OneChip is bringing the powerful value proposition of Indium Phosphide-based PICs to the FTTH market."