The Ikanos chipsets will be used in CO and CPE platforms and will reportedly offer significantly higher bandwidth than currently deployed ADSLx technologies, thus facilitating future deployment of revenue-enhancing services such as triple play. The new platforms are also backward compatible with deployed VDSL chipsets, thus facilitating a smoother infrastructure upgrade, the company said.
Takenori Kobayashi, director, Access Technology Department, SOFTBANK BB, said, "We needed a feature-rich, end-to-end solution to support our aggressive FTTR roll-out schedule. Having previously worked with Ikanos on our fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) deployments, we recognised that Ikanos' chipsets deliver the industry's best performance, density and power, and can support the evolving high-value broadband services we provide to our customers."
"We are delighted that SOFTBANK BB has selected Ikanos for their next broadband access network deployments," said Michael A. Ricci, president and CEO, Ikanos. "Ikanos is an established leader in the VDSL2 market. Our fifth-generation VDSL2 CO and CPE chipsets strengthen this lead by delivering highly differentiated features to support cutting-edge services, such as IPTV and triple play." |
