Optical Line Terminals

October 8, 2012

Broadcom has introduced the BCM5553x family, the dual-, quad- and octal-port single-chip 10G-EPON optical line terminals (OLTs). Designed to address connectivity requirements of residential triple-play services including video-on-demand (VoD), HD-IPTV, VoIP and Internet, the BCM5553x series of OLT SoCs deliver 10 times more bandwidth. When combined with the BCM88350 family of integrated single-chip traffic manager/packet processors and the BCM55030 optical network unit (ONU) SoC, the BCM5553x 10G EPON OLT family delivers a complete chipset platform. The BCM5553x family offers support for 10-Gbps symmetric and asymmetric data rates combined with 1G-EPON co-existence on a single fiber, while enabling 3G/LTE mobile backhaul and enterprise business services on a common fiber access network. With unified management, the BCM5553x family delivers a fiber access service for telecommunications and cable MSOs. www.broadcom.com