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Cortina Unveils New Universal PON Platform Enabling ODM/OEMs Faster Time to Market
June 2013 by Marc Jacob
Cortina Systems, Inc., which delivers innovative technologies linking people and networks worldwide, today announced the availability of a universal turnkey platform for real world EPON/GPON ONU deployments. This solution consists of an optimized reference board design using Cortina Systems(R) CS8232 Dual-mode EPON/GPON ONU System-on-a-Chip (SoC), a royalty-free source code for turnkey OAM/OMCI and TR069 stack, and an open CPU platform for ODM/OEM customizations. ODM/OEMs can quickly bring a field-proven solution to market, while having the flexibility to extend and customize their product to meet specific carrier requirements.
CS8232: Dual Mode EPON/GPON ONU Turnkey Solution
The Cortina CS8232 Dual Mode EPON/GPON ONU flexible architecture allows it to be configured as a full feature Home Gateway Unit (HGU) or a cost effective data ONU, enabling system vendors to maximize their resources by designing one solution for the entire market. With turnkey software from Cortina, customers can bring a field-proven solution to market with little R&D investment and technical risk. Customers also now have source code access to the Cortina OMCI and TR-069 stack, giving them the option to make any modifications and upgrades when carrier requirements change.
To support rapid market adoption, the Cortina turnkey solution has gone through stringent carrier testing and interoperability testing against commercially available OLT equipment from all major vendors. Specifically, the stack is well qualified for various GPON Specifications from China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile. Popular ONU configurations are supported, including single-port ONU for Single Family Units (SFU), single-port SFU with single-channel Voice over IP (VoIP), and dual-port Home Gateway Unit (HGU) with VoIP. These configurations can be in either EPON or GPON mode.
The turnkey software package includes ITU-T G.988- and ITU-T G.984-compliant OMCI stack, IEEE 802.3ah- and IEEE 802.3av-compliant OAM stack, and OMCI/OAM extensions for various carriers. It also features support for PON and UNI interfaces configurations, forwarding engine and dual VLAN tags operations, deep packet classification and subscriber Quality-of-Service (QoS) management, multicast (IGMP/MLD) snooping, Command Line Interface (CLI), remote image upgrade, and a ready-to-go web management interface.
– Availability
The Cortina CS8232 devices are in production and complete turnkey solution is available now.
