August 10th, 2009 – Santa Clara, Calif. – BroadLight, the leading supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, today announced that Accton has selected BroadLight’s 2nd generation of GPON System on Chip, BL2345 and BL2348, for its wide portfolio of GPON Customer Premises Equipment. Representing a major win for BroadLight, Accton leadership in the access market strengthens BroadLight position in the GPON market.
“Accton is world leading broadband CPE vendor serving key OEMs and Tier 1 TEMs.” said Raanan Gewirtzman, CEO BroadLight. “A key vendor such as Accton selecting our GPON solution is a resounding statement to our products and company.”
“We are pleased to establish our relationship with BroadLight,” said David Tsai, GM of Carrier Access BU at Accton. “When we looked at the available product offerings, it was clear that BroadLight’s GPON SoC integrated network processor is the best solution for quickly getting to market with a rich set of features and it also provided a clear path forward for the long term product offering.”
About Accton
Accton Technology Corporation develops networking and communications solutions for networking, computer, and telecommunications vendors. The company leverages its advanced software applications and state-of-the-art ASIC to join forces with its strategic partners to design, develop and manufacture innovative, innovative technologies in Zero Time. Accton Technology develops and markets, lines of Carrier-Class CO devices and CPE gears which are used in all kinds of FTTx services and enable integrated voice, video and high-speed internet access. The company’s constantly evolving core technology, highly qualified employees and aggressive cost engineering make it possible for Accton to deliver superior products that are as affordable as they are robust.
About BroadLight
BroadLight is a fabless semiconductor company supplying semiconductor devices and solutions to equipment vendors for FTTH applications around the globe. Its technology spans from optical access to home networking which enables the delivery of highly integrated, low-cost, end-to-end (E2E) solutions from the central office to the customer premise. As a result, BroadLight is the leader in GPON semiconductor devices and software and is currently powering some of the world’s largest PON deployments.
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