News | January 10, 2006

BroadLight Delivers Industry's First GPON Samples

Mountain View, CA - Demonstrating superior product execution, BroadLight announced that it has successfully sampled the BL2000 GPON system-on-chip solution. The BL2000 system-on-chip completes BroadLight's End-to-End GPON product offering which also includes PONmaker software and the BL3000 OLT MAC. The company will be demonstrating working GPON systems at the Fiber Optics Expo in Japan on January 18-20 in booth #55-7 and also in a private suite (TIME24 bldg). BroadLight executives will also be participating on two GPON speaking panels at the show (details below.)

"As the first company to successfully sample a GPON controller, BroadLight is taking the lead in a rapidly growing market that is predicted to be the largest PON growth segment in the next few years," said Andy Vought, CEO of BroadLight. "Based on this flawless product execution, customers can be confident that BroadLight will deliver quality-tested GPON products on-time to meet the needs of their demanding service provider customers."

"Infonetics Research predicts that in 2008 GPON revenues will exceed those of competing BPON and EPON solutions in North America and worldwide," said Michael Howard, Principal Analyst and Co-Founder of Infonetics Research. "BroadLight is the first vendor we've seen to sample a GPON solution and this should help put them in a position to be a significant competitor for the GPON contracts that are currently under development."

"This is a major milestone in the GPON industry and we are pleased that we chose BroadLight as our supplier," said Arthur Lie, Senior Marketing Manager of Askey Computer. "All indicators point to GPON being very successful in the market and we look forward to bringing our product to market very quickly."

BroadLight to Speak on Two FOE Panels

As a recognized leader in the GPON market, BroadLight will be speaking on two panels during the FOE Show in Japan.

  • Moshe Levy, Vice President of Engineering, will speak on a panel titled "Optical Devices and Interface Modules Technology for Optical Metro and Access Networks." The panel is scheduled for January 20th at 2:30 p.m.
  • Didi Ivancovsky, Founder and Vice President Products, will speak on a panel titled "E2E GPON Now." This is scheduled for January 18th at 3pm.

SOURCE: BroadLight, Inc.