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News Release from: Broadcom Corp | Subject: VDSL2 chipsets
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 October 2007
Telecommunications company makes
Ethernet choice
Broadcom and ZyXEL are providing VDSL2 IP DSLAM and customer premises equipment (CPE) products to Chunghwa Telecom for its next-generation VDSL2 access network.
Broadcom's VDSL2 and StrataXGS Ethernet products have been selected by Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) of Taiwan for mass deployment in its next-generation IP services network Broadcom's VDSL2 chipsets were selected by ZyXEL for incorporation in the ZyXEL VES-1600 and IES-5005 access products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Oct 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Broadcom and ZyXEL are providing VDSL2 IP DSLAM and customer premises equipment (CPE) products to Chunghwa Telecom for its next-generation VDSL2 access network.
Broadcom silicon and software address all aspects of sophisticated digital subscriber line (DSL)-based services with Wi-Fi, VoIP, Ethernet switching, multimedia over co-axial cable (MoCA) and video enabling features including its newly released PhyR impulse noise protection technology.
ZyXEL will supply customer premises equipment including VDSL2 bridges, routers, wireless gateways and VoIP-enabled integrated access devices (IADs) based on Broadcom VDSL2, 10/100 Fast Ethernet switching, 802.11b/g and VoIP chipsets.
Broadcom's integration of key VDSL2, local area network and VoIP technologies provides improved performance and accelerated time to market across a complete CPE product portfolio.
"In the past, we have worked together with Broadcom to win ADSL DSLAM and Gigabit Ethernet switching contracts from worldwide telecom operators", says Dr Yuh-Long Chen, President of ZyXEL.
"It's truly a pleasure for us to work with Broadcom to win the CHT VDSL2 NGN project".
"To date, in terms of deployment scale and product specifications, this is the largest and most complex project of its kind in the world".
"Based on previous successful and extensive overseas VDSL2 deployments, ZyXEL is equipped to duplicate this success in establishing CHT's NGN network and to accelerate MOD and high definition VOD applications in the market".
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