GPON SoC does FTTH with Linux

Courtesy LinuxDevices.com  Wed, 08/13/2008 - 13:30

Freescale Semiconductor announced a low-cost system-on-chip (SoC) for gigabit passive optical network (GPON) devices used in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments.

Equipped with an e300 PowerPC core, and supplied with a Linux 2.6 BSP (board support package), the MSC7104 GPON supports data rates of 2.4Gbps downstream and 1.2Gbps upstream, according to Freescale.


 

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