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Gigabit Passive Optical
Network Solution from Freescale Enables Triple Play at the Speed of
Light
Other topics: Voice-Enabled SoC
Integrating, Triple-Play Billing,
VoIP Service Subscribers
BUSINESS WIRE
April 02, 2007
Freescale First to Market with Voice-Enabled SoC Integrating CPU, DSP
and Data Path Engine Technology for the Convergence of IP Packet and
Optical Networks
Embedded Systems Conference
San Jose, California - The delivery of rich digital content to the
home and small office via fiber takes a major step toward reality
today with the introduction of the MSC7120 from Freescale
Semiconductor – the industry’s first voice-enabled Gigabit Passive
Optical Networking (GPON) SoC. |
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The multi-core MSC7120
integrates a Power Architecture™ CPU, a StarCore™ DSP and a data path
engine to deliver a complete PON sub-system in a single device. It
addresses the high data forwarding throughput requirements of several
applications including the delivery of “triple play” (voice, video and
data) broadband services to the home or small business.
“Featuring industry-leading integration, ultra-high performance and
production-ready enablement options, the MSC7120 takes broadband data
delivery over optical fiber technology to a new level,” said Ritu
Favre, director and general manager of Freescale’s Digital Home
Division. “This new part, together with our strong industry
relationships and established history in the PON space positions
Freescale for early leadership in the GPON market.”
Freescale and Alcatel-Lucent, the dominant supplier of GPON equipment
worldwide, initiated joint development of the MSC7120 after the
companies agreed in 2005 to collaborate on delivering compatible,
interoperable and cost-effective GPON technology to the market.
“As a market leader in GPON, we see this announcement as an
illustration of how GPON technology is evolving and maturing,” said
Mike Dobbs, senior vice president for Alcatel-Lucent’s Access
Division. “Freescale has a proven technology and this important step
now enables the network appliance community to provide
industry-compatible GPON devices at an affordable cost.”
GPON technology supports the convergence of IP over optical networks,
offering connection speeds much higher than today’s DSL- or DOCSIS-based
networks. It is a key enabler for bandwidth-hungry “triple play”
applications such as HDTV and Video on Demand.
Analyst firm IDC forecasts that worldwide consumer and small business
broadband subscriptions will grow to approximately 400M subscriptions
by 2010.
As the number of broadband subscribers worldwide expands, GPON is
recognized as an emerging solution to challenges that threaten to
constrict delivery of rich content to end consumers over “last mile”
infrastructure.
“Over the next few years, GPON technology will become a viable
solution for increasing bandwidth in today's access networks,
especially as carriers address the increasing demand for video as a
key element of their ‘triple play’ services,” said Aileen Arcilla,
senior research analyst at IDC.
About the MSC7120
The MSC7120 combines the high channel voice density of Freescale’s
MSC711x DSP device with the high-speed networking capabilities of the
PowerQUICC™ II Pro platform featuring Power Architecture™ technology,
a GPON media access controller (MAC) and Freescale’s packet engine,
which achieves Gigabit wire rate packet forwarding. The device
supports the G.984 GPON GEM protocol and is designed to be compliant
with the ITU-T standards.
Development Tools and Software
Development tools, hardware platforms, software building blocks and
application specific software solutions for the MSC7120 are available.
The software includes real-time operating system support for the
StarCore DSP and Power Architecture cores and a variety of
applications software including DSP voice framework, signaling stacks
and GPON software stacks.
Through an agreement between Alcatel-Lucent and Freescale, terminal
vendors can license critical technologies, including a reference
design and support for GPON that is compliant with Alcatel-Lucent’s
7342 ISAM fiber-to-the-user (FTTU) product family. Announced in
February 2007, this agreement facilitates adoption of
fiber-to-the-home technologies with jointly-developed GPON technology
and interoperability specifications. The expected result is faster
time-to-market by providing a production-ready, standards-compliant
reference design for GPON ONTs.
Freescale also is engaged with other alpha customers to help ensure
interoperability with a variety of specifications. In addition, the
company plans to participate in a Full Service Access Network (FSAN)
group interoperability event scheduled for May 2007.
Availability
Freescale is now sampling the MSC7120 to alpha customers. It is
offered in a 456-pin thermally enhanced PBGA package. Please contact
Freescale Sales for pricing.
About StarCore® DSP Technology from Freescale
StarCore DSP technology from Freescale is the driving force behind
some of the most sophisticated, flexible and powerful digital signal
processing devices in the industry. It enables the creation of highly
advanced DSP products uniquely suited to address current and emerging
market requirements. StarCore technology runs more applications with
less – less power, fewer components and lower cost. Freescale
Semiconductor is actively charting the course for future generations
of StarCore architectures.
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and
manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer,
industrial, networking and wireless markets. The privately held
company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and
development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30
countries. Freescale is one of the world's largest semiconductor
companies with 2006 sales of $6.4 billion (USD). www.freescale.com
Freescale Technology Forum
The Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) has become the developer event of
the year for the embedded semiconductor industry. The Forum, which
debuted in 2005, has been enthusiastically received by the global
developer community, drawing more than 12,000 attendees at FTF events
worldwide since its inception. For more information about FTF events,
please go to www.freescale.com/ftf.
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Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. 2007. |
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