Korea Telecom inks EPON contract with DASAN
Posted : 10 Jan 2007
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PMC-Sierra Inc. and DASAN Networks Inc., Korea's leading supplier of
broadband access equipment, announced that Korea Telecom (KT) has
selected DASAN Networks for deployment of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)
equipment in the greater metropolitan area of Seoul, South Korea.
According to the press release, DASAN's Gbps EPON solution, based on
PMC-Sierra's FTTH chip set using its GigaPASS architecture, is capable
of delivering premium-grade triple-play services—voice, data and
video—to Korea's growing FTTH subscriber base. DASAN Networks expects
the number of subscribers under this deployment to reach 800,000 in the
2007 calendar year.
"Korea has consistently been a leader in deploying broadband access
technologies and they now join Japan in selecting PMC-Sierra-based EPON
FTTH technology for widespread deployment," said Victor Vaisleib,
general manager of the FTTH business unit at PMC-Sierra.
"Korea is committed to high-volume deployment of FTTH technology and we
are pleased to win this contract with PMC-Sierra as they are the only
silicon supplier with experience in deploying gigabit per second
bandwidth FTTH in the millions of units," said Min Woo Nam, CEO, DASAN.
"Our partnership will enable us to meet our goal of delivering
cost-effective, reliable, and high-performance FTTH network equipment
supporting triple-play services of video, voice, and data."
A passive optical network (PON) delivers gigabit-per-second bandwidth to
the consumer using high-bandwidth optical fiber instead of copper
wiring. EPON-based FTTH deployments lower the cost of network
maintenance because the PON infrastructure requires no active
electronics and delivers an order of magnitude greater bandwidth over
traditional copper-based access technologies. This bandwidth enables the
low-cost delivery of bandwidth-intensive services such as video
services, 10-40Mbps and greater data access and integrated VoIP
telephone services.
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