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November 26, 2008

BroadLight and Percello Tie Up to Offer Femtocell Enabled GPON Residential Gateway

BroadLight and Percello have announced a partnership to deliver a comprehensive reference platform that combines BroadLight's Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) technology with Percello's Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) / Long Term Evolution (LTE (News - Alert)) Femtocell SoC technology.
 
Percello, a fabless semiconductor company, was founded to provide digital baseband solutions to the challenges of the 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA+/LTE femtocells market: cost, power, level of integration, development time and flexibility. BroadLight delivers end-to-end (E2E) solution (from the customer premises to the central office) for equipment vendors designing ITU-T compliant passive optical network (PON) systems.
 
"BroadLight has been aggressively partnering with technology leaders in the broadband space to enable customers to deliver BL2348 GPON residential gateways that meet and exceed service provider requirements," said Doron Tal, vice president of business development and product management for BroadLight while commenting on this partnership. "Femtocell (News - Alert) is considered a revolution in the mobile network market and thus, we partnered with Percello to bring the best femtocell technology to our GPON platform."
 
The newly proposed reference design by both the companies would make use of BL2348 system-on-chip (SoC) GPON ONT/Gateways and Percello's femtocell baseband chips to empower wireless notebooks, 3G/4G handsets, wireless IP phones, cameras, smartphones, and UMPCs.
 
According to BroadLight, The highly integrated BL2348 ONT/RG System on Chip (SoC) is designed to meet the performance, QoS, security, management and service requirements of high-performance GPON connected Optical Network Terminations and Residential Gateways and customers around the globe are incorporating the BL2348 RG SoC to deliver high-performance GPON-enabled residential gateways that connect the home network directly to the access network.
 
Percello says their femtocell baseband chips are designed to serve as a standalone femtocell processor and as a subsystem element for a residential gateway. They are all fabbed on a 65 nm process and are highly integrated SoC for baseband processing.
 
Percello officials maintain that GPON has already proven to be an excellent backhauling solution for femtocells with their performance. Their features and built in capacities will allow customers to enjoy the highest data rates of femtocells. Their partnership with BroadLight will help customers keep in pace with the rapidly expanding market opportunities.
 

Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Tim Gray
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