Date: 30/10/2009

1 million Mustang EPON ONU chips shipped by TranSwitch

TranSwitch has announced that it has shipped over 1 million chips from its Mustang product family of Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) protocol system-on-chip (SoC) for optical networking unit (ONU) applications.

The Mustang devices provide the core functionality for the ONU equipment being deployed by Japan's leading telecommunications service provider as part of its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) strategy for offering triple-play (voice, internet and television) services.

"We are pleased to report this impressive milestone for our Mustang chips," said Dr. Santanu Das, TranSwitch's President and CEO. "The Mustang product family is integral to TranSwitch's focus on offering a comprehensive platform of Access and Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) due to the high growth characteristics of this market segment. We look forward to leveraging our success in Japan as we accelerate the sales and marketing initiatives of our network edge products throughout Asia as well as other fast growing markets."

TranSwitch says, by expanding its end-to-end FTTH semiconductor portfolio, the Mustang product family of high-integrated and low power EPON ONU SoCs is suitable for deploying next generation networks (NGN) that support triple play services such as bandwidth-intensive IPTV and these products enable new capabilities for television entertainment including interactivity, integration with voice and data communications, and value-added services while maintaining the high quality of service.

The Mustang ONU supports vendor optical line terminals (OLT) and full compliance with relevant standards including IEEE 802.3ah and the NTT gigabit EPON Gist specification to ensure error-free, low latency, bandwidth efficient data transmission.