Broadcom is a pioneer in offering semiconductor solutions for both wired and wireless communications. The company has an extensive product line for use in office, home, and mobile environments.
With the introduction of BCM5553x family, Broadcom is able to meet the challenges posed by the ever-increasing demand in the residential communication requirements like voice over IP (VoIP), high-speed Internet (HIS), video on demand (VoD), and high-definition internet protocol based television (HD-IPTV) services.
BCM5553x is a state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip designed to offer expandable and flexible fiber access solutions in multi service operator markets (MSOs) such as telecom and cable markets. It is a platform featuring high-density dual, quad, and octal port single-chip 10G-EPON optical line terminals (OLTs) designed to deliver a bandwidth that is ten times greater than any other communication terminal.
It supports both 10 Gbps (10 G) symmetric and asymmetric data rate in combination with 1 G-EPON that lies on a single fiber. This helps 3G/LTE mobile backhaul and enterprise business services to have the same communication network.
The BCM5553x combined with the BCM88350 integrated chip processors and BCM55030 optical network unit (ONU) SoC remains as the chipset platform that can render great performance.
The 10 G-EPON optical line terminal comes with a simple OLT line card that allows for 1G/10G co-existence for the benefit of subscribers who have 1G-EPON optical line. This allows subscribers to upgrade to 10 G bandwidth on the same fiber merely with the addition of an OLT line card. This helps customers save money while upgrading to fiber-to-the building (FTTB) multi-dwelling unit (MDU) applications.
The high-density 10G OLT SoCs are used in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) installations that are used to support high-speed applications such as interactive internet gaming experience and in 3D TVs. By 2014, the high definition communication platform is estimated to increase the business IP traffic to 21% CAGR. Featuring low cost and less power per port, Broadcom’s BCM5553x stands unsurpassed in offering carrier-grade quality of service (QoS) for next-generation FTTX access networks.
Source: http://www.broadcom.com