Ikanos Communications (News - Alert) Inc., developer of Fiber Fast broadband solutions, and Atheros Communications, Inc., developer of advanced wireless solutions, have joined forces to develop a Fusiv-based reference platform that combines VDSL2 technology with the 802.11n draft 2.0 technology.
This reference platform integrates Ikanos' Fusiv Vx180, an integrated VDSL2 gateway processor with Atheros' XSPAN 802.11n draft 2.0 solutions to offer a high-performance, wireless-enabled, xDSL residential gateway reference platform for triple play
applications.
The Fusiv Vx180 supports 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN), using less than one-half the processing power of comparable DSL platforms. This has been possible by optimizing and running 802.11n drivers on Fusiv's distributed architecture, which includes a host CPU and multiple high-performance Accelerator Processors.
Ikanos' Fusiv Vx180 is a single chip, multi-mode VDSL2 gateway processor that provides up to 2.7 GHz of processing power, on-chip voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), virtual private network (VPN) security, routing and bridging.
"Ikanos' Fusiv product line offers the power and performance necessary to take full advantage of the high throughput delivered by Atheros' 802.11n draft 2.0 technology," said Michael Stauffer, director of marketing for the carrier business at Atheros, in a statement.
Ikanos has selected Atheros' XSPAN dual-band concurrent and dual-band configurable draft 802.11n solutions for the new joint reference platform, because it offers complete home coverage with considerably increased bandwidth capacity - up to 200 Mbps of real user throughput per band with Atheros' XSPAN with Signal-Sustain Technology (SST).
"The collaboration between Atheros and Ikanos is designed to allow our customers to quickly and cost-effectively deliver industry-leading, high-performance, wireless-enabled, triple-play residential gateways," said Dean Westman, vice president and general manager for Ikanos' Gateway (News - Alert) Products Group, in a statement.
Ikanos and Atheros have plans to jointly market the fully integrated residential gateway reference designs to DSL service providers and their gateway equipment suppliers.
Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
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