“Interoperability of VDSL-DMT is an important requirement for ensuring the overall growth of the worldwide DSL market and the deployment of very high-bandwidth media services such as digital TV or video services,” said Markku Hynninen, Vice President of Broadband Access at Nokia’s Broadband Systems division. “Working on interoperability with other VDSL–DMT equipment and chip vendors will ensure our leadership position of the Nokia D500 DSLAM in the emerging VDSL-DMT market.”
“The focus of earlier interoperability initiatives was to demonstrate interoperability between DMT-based chipsets that could meet the evolving international standards for VDSL. However, system-level interoperability is of greater importance in enabling VDSL-DMT based service deployment,” said Richard Sekar, vice president of marketing at Ikanos. “The system-level interoperability initiative will ensure the DSLAM and CPE components are fully interoperable and through our partnership with Nokia, Hyundai, and ZyXEL it will enable the mass deployment of very high speed broadband services.”
Carrier Interest in VDSL-DMT Is Heating Up
Carriers worldwide are seeking to deploy interoperable VDSL-DMT as a way to offer high value, high-bandwidth media & data services to their customers. In addition, DMT is the VDSL transmission technology of choice worldwide, as products that employ DMT line coding fit seamlessly into carriers’ existing DMT infrastructure, and have robust performance in challenging local loop conditions.
“The broadband market is growing rapidly in Asia and especially in Korea, which leads the world with more than 10 million broadband subscribers,” said Su Bong Lee, director of Hyundai Networks. “Our carrier customers are now moving to deploy VDSL-DMT, and they want the kind of interoperable end-to-end solutions that our partnership with Nokia, Zyxel and Ikanos will provide.”
“As a worldwide leader in CPE, we understand the importance of interoperability with DSLAMs from multiple vendors,” said Munira Brooks, vice president of sales and marketing and Strategic Business Development, North America, for ZyXEL. “By working with Nokia, Ikanos, and Hyundai, we can ensure that our customers will have interoperability with market-leading DSLAMs.”
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience, innovation, user-friendliness and secure solutions, the company has become the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed broadband and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet Nokia creates new opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on six major exchanges.
About Ikanos Communications
Founded in 1999 and based in Silicon Valley, Ikanos Communications has created a new class of silicon that serves the entire range of worldwide broadband markets and applications with a single programmable chipset. Ikanos’ industry-leading solution includes the SmartLeap™ 8100, SmartLeap™ 8800 A/VDSL for broadband access concentrators and the CleverConnect™ 150 for Customer Premise Equipment. These chipsets form an end-to-end broadband solution that enables access equipment vendors to serve many different customers while slashing time to market and lowering development, manufacturing, and inventory costs. Ikanos also offers the Ikanos Programmable Operating System™ (iPOS), which consists of firmware and APIs. iPOS enables equipment vendors to dynamically configure LRFE, EFM, VDSL-DMT 998, VDSL-DMT 997, VDSL-DMT Flex, and ADSL-DMT on Ikanos chipsets.
Ikanos Communications provides comprehensive offerings that encompass silicon, embedded software, reference designs, high-level APIs, and extensive documentation. Ikanos is a member of, and contributes to, ANSI, the IEEE 802.3 EFM Study Group, DSL Forum, and ITU-T. For additional information about Ikanos Communications, please visit the company’s Web site at www.ikanos.com or contact Connie Henry at 1.510.438.6276 or chenry@ikanos.com.
Founded in 1999 and based in Silicon Valley, Ikanos Communications has created a new class of silicon that serves the entire range of worldwide broadband markets and applications with a single programmable chipset. Ikanos’ industry-leading solution includes the SmartLeap™ 8100, SmartLeap™ 8800 A/VDSL for broadband access concentrators and the CleverConnect™ 150 for Customer Premise Equipment. These chipsets form an end-to-end broadband solution that enables access equipment vendors to serve many different customers while slashing time to market and lowering development, manufacturing, and inventory costs. Ikanos also offers the Ikanos Programmable Operating System™ (iPOS), which consists of firmware and APIs. iPOS enables equipment vendors to dynamically configure LRFE, EFM, VDSL-DMT 998, VDSL-DMT 997, VDSL-DMT Flex, and ADSL-DMT on Ikanos chipsets.
Ikanos Communications provides comprehensive offerings that encompass silicon, embedded software, reference designs, high-level APIs, and extensive documentation. Ikanos is a member of, and contributes to, ANSI, the IEEE 802.3 EFM Study Group, DSL Forum, and ITU-T. For additional information about Ikanos Communications, please visit the company’s Web site at www.ikanos.com or contact Connie Henry at 1.510.438.6276 or chenry@ikanos.com.
About ZyXEL Communications
ZyXEL Communications Co. (TAI:2391.TW), located in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is world's third largest DSL CPE provider. Products developed by ZyXEL over the years are not only industry leaders, but consistently win acclaim and are selected by worldwide telecommunications companies, ISPs, and other major businesses. ZyXEL now serves Chunghwa Telecom (TAI:2412.TW), Deutsche Telekom, EarthLink (NASDAQ: ELNK), France Telecom (NYSE:FTE), Sprint, Telefonica Brazil, Telenor, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and many others. For more information on ZyXEL Communications, visit company's Website at http://www.zyxel.com.
About Hyundai Networks
Hyundai Networks, formerly the Network Business Unit of Hynix Semiconductor and Hyundai Electronics, re-launched the company May 1, 2001. The equipment vendor is the leading ADSL-equipment provider in Korea and has the proven technical supremacy, the ability to develop high-quality products, and has strong customer presence in Thailand, Taiwan, China, Japan, and Korea.
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