Video Interview at Incisor.TV
ULE Vice Chairman Ulrich Grote about the work of the ULE Alliance.
The Video Interview is available at: http://bit.ly/1bqabRX
Lantiq is a member of the ULE Alliance and believes the Gateway will be the central node for Home Automation, enabled via DECT ULE.
Read more: Making the Broadband Gateway the Central Node for Home Automation
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ULE Vice Chairman Ulrich Grote about the work of the ULE Alliance
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Orange and Aethra® Telecommunications test FTTdp in Warsaw
Orange Polska is currently working with Aethra® Telecommunications to test the possibilities offered by the Fiber-to-the-Distribution-Point (FTTdp) technology.
Orange and Aethra Telecommunications published a joint news release on FTTdp field trial in Poland.
News Release: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/orange-and-aethra-telecommunications-test-fttdp-in-warsaw-243640791.html
Lantiq partners with Aethra on FTTdp. Read more.
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G.fast & FTTdp Get New Model from Lantiq
Article in Fast Net News
300 MHz signals behave differently from 30 MHz signals. Old models, such as the ETSI model for VDSL, do not accurately measure performance at higher frequencies. [...]
Rainer Strobel of Lantiq, Reinhard Stolle of Hochschule Augsburg and Wolfgang Utschick of Technische Universität München have built a new model that better fits the data. They write me "The industry is using a a cable model back from 1998, originally designed to describe cable properties for single line ADSL transmission. These models, adopted by ETSI and NIPP-NAI, served their purpose reasonably well for VDSL2 frequencies (<30MHz).
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Read the full article at FNN.
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Lantiq Names Executive to Intensify Focus on Telecom Carriers in Americas
New Director Business Development to Build Opportunities for Lantiq and Equipment Partners
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany and San Jose, CA – February 13, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of chips and software for broadband access and home networking, today announced that it has named Bill McDonald as Director Business Development.
“We continue to increase activities to ensure that telecom carriers, our customers’ customer, understand the strong value we provide to broadband access and digital home service offerings. Bill McDonald is well known in the communications market for his energy, ability to identify new trends and opportunities, and focus on delivering results,” stated David Boikess, Senior Vice President Global Sales at Lantiq. “His strong background, extensive relationships, and deep understanding of the key Telcos in the Americas will help us expand sales penetration and create new opportunities for Lantiq and our customers. We are thrilled to have Bill join our team.”
McDonald has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications and semiconductor industries, in various technical, Sales, Marketing and Management positions. Most recently he was Director, Carrier Development and Relations at Ikanos Communications, where he managed the world-wide Carrier development activities for both Central Office and CPE solutions.
McDonald started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff. He also has held Product Marketing and Product Management positions at Fujitsu Network Communications, Metro-Optix, Inc., Mahi Networks, Centillium Communications and Transwitch Corp.
McDonald received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and received his Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Cornell University.
About Lantiq
Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital Home. More Information about Lantiq is available on our Website or via Twitter @Lantiq and YouTube.
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Optimierte letzte DSL-Meile
Artikel in der 'funkschau' zum DSL YouQoS Projekt
Das vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung unter dem Kennzeichen YouQoS geförderte Projekt untersucht ein neuartiges Konzept zur Dienstgüterkontrolle, um DSL-Anschlüsse mit geringen Bitraten aufzuwerten. YouQoS überwindet den Flaschenhals zu minimalen Kosten, so der Anspruch.
Die Idee hinter YouQoS ist, dass die Datenströme der wichtigen Anwendungen vom Netz priorisiert werden, und dass der Teilnehmer selbst bestimmt, welche Anwendungen für ihn gerade wichtig sind. Somit hat diese Lösung das Potenzial, die aktuelle Debatte zur Netzneutralität zu lösen.
Lesen Sie hier den vollständigen Artikel.
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Gigabit Ethernet Design Kit ‘Connects the World’
Lantiq and Würth Elektronik eiSos Offer Turnkey Demo Kit to Add High Speed Connectivity to Any Home Appliance
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany -- March 3, 2014 – Lantiq and Würth Elektronik eiSos today announced the availability of a jointly developed design kit for easy and fast implementation of Gigabit Ethernet in a broad range of products. The Evaluation Kit paves the way to easily add high-speed network connectivity to an application or device. It provides all necessary information to understand the demands of an Ethernet hardware design, along with an easy to use 1 Gbps Ethernet demonstration board.
With the new kit customers can smoothly add Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to support new applications in products such as stoves, coffee machines, telephones, dishwashers, etc. By implementing Ethernet, manufacturers get both Internet functionality and a high-speed standardized connection to plug-in service and maintenance devices.
The kit relies on Lantiq’s field-proven Gigabit Ethernet technology with best in class energy efficiency, highest integration and smallest form factor. The overall solution, with leading Ethernet and passive components from Würth Elektronik eiSos, proves that Internet/Ethernet connectivity can be realized with less than US $3 additional bill-of-material in high quantities.
The USB-powered demo board is about the size of a credit card (54 mm x 92 mm). Customers can easily connect the board to PCs and instantly achieve data rates of up to 1Gbps bi-directional. Using the Lantiq XWAY PHY11G in a very small VQFN-48 package (7mm x 7 mm), the board saves energy due to compliance with IEEE’s energy efficient Ethernet standard.
Availability and pricing
The "High Speed Connection to the World" kit can be directly ordered for 129 € per kit. More Information is available at: http://www.lantiq.com/GPHY.
About Würth Elektronik eiSos
Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG is a manufacturer of electronic and electromechanical components for the electronics industry. The company is part of the Würth Group, the global market leader for fastener technology. It employs 5,000 people and generated sales of 335 million Euro in 2013. Würth Elektronik eiSos is active with direct sales in 50 countries worldwide.
Manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia and North America ensure the delivery of the growing customer basis. The product range covers EMC components, inductors, RF inductors and LTCC components, transformers, components for circuit protection, power modules, LEDs, connectors, switches, power elements in press-fit technology and assembly technique.
Würth Elektronik eiSos is one of Europe's largest manufacturers of passive components.
Würth Elektronik: more than you expect!
About Lantiq
Lantiq offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital home. Information about Lantiq is available on our Website or via Twitter @Lantiq and YouTube.
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New Lantiq Entry-Level VDSL Gateway Chip Brings CPE Flexibility to Telecom Carriers
One Chip Solution VRX220 Lets Carriers Offer a Family of xDSL Entry Gateways to Meet Customer Connectivity Needs with Support for Fastest VDSL Access Rates
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany – March 17, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, today introduced its new single chip VRX220 entry-level xDSL home gateway SoC family. The new Lantiq solution enables customers to offer mature, feature rich VDSL Gateways at an unbeatably cost competitive setup for customers and telecom operators.
Cost-Optimized Design
- The VRX220 is built to balance carrier needs for gateway functionality with low system cost. Features include:
- Significant Bill-of- Material (BOM) savings due to small form factor reference Gateways on a two-layer PCB with Fast Ethernet LAN ports, 802.11n wireless LAN, and Carrier-Grade VoIP.
- Complete and seamless networking software package with routing, firewall and QoS, and TR-69 remote configuration – a ready-to-go design that enables fastest time to market for telecom operators.
- Seamless support of VDSL Profile 8,12,17 and 30MHz without any change of hardware, including support of Hybrid Fiber/Copper (FTTB/FTTdp).
- Field proven Vectoring support for future-proof performance in next generation networks.
- Fully backwards compatible with millions of VDSL/ADSL lines in the field and covered by all major international certificates to ensure full interoperability (IOP)
“Continued advances in copper and hybrid copper/fiber technology strengthen the economics for carriers to extend the life of their existing networks by further investing in VDSL. With the VRX220, Lantiq meets the trend of moving from ADSL to VDSL and beyond for Entry DSL Gateways, while telecom operators can offer highly cost optimized and feature-rich customer premise gateways to their customers.” More Information about the VRX220 and the complete Lantiq portfolio of CPE solutions can be found on the Lantiq at: www.lantiq.com/VRX220 Availability Lantiq’s new xDSL VRX220 communication processor is available now. About Lantiq Lantiq offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital Home. More Information about Lantiq is available on our Website or via Twitter @Lantiq and YouTube. ### *IHS market tracker Q3/2013
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FiberHome Selects Lantiq for LTE Broadband Gateway
Enabling Fixed LTE Gateways for Mass Deployment in China market
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany and Shanghai, China – March 18, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of chips and software for broadband access and home networking, today announced that the information and telecommunications solution leader, FiberHome Technologies Group, selected Lantiq for its next generation LTE gateway. The new gateway is a high performance and cost effective fixed LTE broadband service solution for the China market.
The new FiberHome LTE gateway is powered by the field proven and widely deployed Lantiq GRX288 Broadband network processor. With market leading routing performance based on the Lantiq Direct LTE approach, the gateway’s innovative design, engineering and cutting-edge features address what consumers and the market are expecting from 4G/LTE technologies.
The LTE Broadband Gateway market segment benefits heavily from the rapid growth of 4G deployment in China and globally, bringing high speed data access to homes where adequate wireline broadband service is not available.
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Stéphane Téral, Principal Analyst of Infonetics Research: “According to our latest 2G, 3G, LTE Mobile Infrastructure and Subscribers Market Share, Size, and Forecasts report,* the YoY growth rate for the LTE market this year is 20.3% globally and 32.5% in Asia Pacific fueled by China.”
Dan Artusi, CEO of Lantiq: “We are extremely pleased that FiberHome selected Lantiq’s platform to address the growing market demand for 4G/LTE in its new LTE CPE. Thanks to the unique architecture of our GRX288 network processor, we can enable our customers with the highest LTE throughput at the lowest CPU load. We look forward to expanding our partnership with FiberHome to address more opportunities in China and the international market.”
Li Chang Chun, GM of Fiberhome Terminal Product Group: “We are delighted to partner with Lantiq to offer a cutting edge fixed LTE Gateway which opens new market opportunities for both companies. With Lantiq we have selected a strong partner in the Broadband Gateway chipset market that can help us to grow our business in multiple CPE markets even beyond LTE.”
Availability
First samples of the Lantiq-enabled FiberHome LTE Gateways will be available this month (March, 2014).
More Information on the Lantiq GRX288 Network Processor is available on the Lantiq Website.
About Lantiq
Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital Home. More Information about Lantiq is available on the Web, Twitter @Lantiq and YouTube.
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*Latest Infonetics Report: 2G, 3G, LTE Mobile Infrastructure and Subscribers Market Share, Size, and Forecasts; 3/04/14
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eRamp - Lantiq participates in EU Research Project
Lantiq partners in a new European Research Project called eRamp.
Lantiq partners in a new European Research Project called eRamp, which was officially launched on April 2/3, 2014 at Infineon in Dresden.
Our contribution to the Project is titled “Excellence in Speed and Reliability for More Than Moore Technologies”.
A summary is available here.
The main target is research on improved methodologies for fast identification of device critical parameters, especially for complex analog mixed-signal circuits to speed up the ramp of complex SoCs.
For more information contact: Media-Relations (at) Lantiq (dot) com
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Lantiq’s Leading Voice Telephony Chip Qualified for Intel® PUMA™ 6 Powered Cable Gateways
Lantiq’s Leading Voice Telephony Chip
Qualified for Intel® PUMA™ 6 Powered Cable Gateways
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany – April 28, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, today announced that its DUSLIC™-xT voice line solution is now qualified for integration in cable gateways based on the Intel® PUMA™ 6 SoC. Specifically, the DUSLIC-xT driver has been integrated into the Intel Cable Software Development Kit (SDK) and Lantiq’s Telephony Interface Daughter (TID) card reference design has been tested for compatibility with Puma 6 platforms.
Cable gateway suppliers can use the reference design or work directly with Lantiq to integrate the DUSLIC-xT into their system designs based on Intel Puma 6 an Intel® Atom™ based, DOCSIS 3.0 compliant SoC which can reach up to 1.2 Gbps downstream by bonding up to 24 DOCSIS channels and up to 240 Mbps upstream by bonding up to 8 DOCSIS return channels.
Best-in-Class Voice Solution DUSLIC-xT is a single package CODEC/SLIC that provides all necessary functions for single or dual voice line termination at the customer premise. It is a cost and footprint optimized solution for implementation of the FXS (Foreign Exchange Subscriber) interface required to support analog fixed line phone service. Features include:
- Leading Bill-of-Material (BOM) savings, with port costs below US 30 cents for dual-line termination, achieved in part by eliminating duplicated external components (i.e., power conversion and line protection).
- Lowest power consumption of available voice solutions, which helps manufacturers meet stringent Code of Conduct requirements, while using a smaller power supply to further improve system design and cost.
- Support for industry standard (GR-909) line test requirements and additional unique tests such as electronic ring detection to validate lines with no attached handset.
“Availability of Lantiq’s compact and power efficient DUSLIC-xT for PUMA 6-based gateways expands our customer’s design flexibility and lets them source one of the most broadly used voice line ICs in the industry. It is an excellent addition to the toolkit we provide for customers to design leading edge cable gateway solutions.” Johannes Eiblmeier, vice president, and head of the Voice and Telecom Products Business Line, Lantiq:
“With more than 900 million voice line termination circuits deployed worldwide, leading OEMs rely on Lantiq to provide quality, performance and reduced design complexity for this essential communications service. DUSLIC-xT is a leading player in the voice market segment for FTTH applications and with design qualification by Intel we can now offer our market segment leading solution for ‘voice over any wire’ into the home.” Availability Lantiq’s DUSLIC-xT and associated reference designs are available now. More Information can be found on the Lantiq web site at: www.lantiq.com/duslic. About Lantiq Lantiq offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital home. More Information about Lantiq is available on our Website or via Twitter @Lantiq and YouTube.
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Lantiq Expands Market Leadership in SHDSL and Enhances Product Offering
Introducing New Firmware, Test Service, Improved Chip Package and New Reference Design Supporting SHDSL in Industrial Applications with Symmetrical Data Rates up to 60 Mbps and Kilometers of Broadband Reach
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany – May 14, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of chips and software for broadband access and home networking, today announced an SHDSL initiative, designed to bring the unique data-rate and reach performance of G.SHDSL and Ethernet First Mile (EFM) to new applications.
Market Leading Performance - for New Applications:
- A new firmware version (V 1.9) for the Lantiq SOCRATES™ SHDSL chipset is available, providing substantially enhanced interoperability.
- Lantiq is launching a new SHDSL CPE test service program, providing customers with sophisticated test capabilities from the Lantiq Labs. (A service catalogue with pricing is available. Please request here.)
- To meet the long-term product availability requirements for industrial markets, Lantiq is committed to mainstream manufacturing technologies to achieve the best possible product lifetime. The four-channel SOCRATES SHDSL products also have been converted from gold to copper bond wiring, with samples available now.
- Lantiq provides customers with additional options using transformers from Würth Elektronik. Please approach your Lantiq Support team to get further details.
- A media backgrounder as well as new joint Lantiq-Teleconnect technology white paper describing a wide range of application examples were released today and are available here.
- A brand new, ready-to-copy Ethernet-to-SHDSL/EFM reference board and module will be available in the second half of 2014. Lantiq partners with SHDSL specialist Teleconnect to dramatically simplify design-in of long reach broadband in new applications
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Lantiq Founding Member of 'prpl' Foundation
Delivering substantial open source resource for advanced MIPS based Communications and Networking Solutions
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany – May 27, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, announced it is a founding member of the prpl foundation, a non-profit open source initiative. The foundation is an open-source community-driven, collaborative, non-profit organization targeting and supporting the MIPS architecture - and open to others - with a focus on enabling next-generation ‘datacenter to device’ portable software and virtualized architectures.
Lantiq is contributing to the foundation to further extend the software ecosystem around the MIPS architecture for communications infrastructure enabling advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) devices for the connected home and Internet-of-Things (IoT).
An important principle behind prpl (pronounced "Purple") is portability, with the goal of allowing for code to be written once and deployed to many devices – regardless of architecture. By encouraging portable software (JITs, emulation, binary translation), prpl enables developers to innovate on their core strengths. Lantiq strongly supports this vision, as one of the key ecosystem requirements for the Internet-of-Things to be successful is a reduced dependency on instruction set architecture (ISA) compatibility. With so many types of devices – from data center to embedded systems – there’s a need to ensure fragmentation doesn’t get in the way of innovation.
As a leader in offering semiconductor solutions for Broadband Communications, Lantiq actively drives the evolution of broadband Gateways and Routers into the central hub of the connected home, enabling cloud based services and IoT. With more than 280 million units shipped in 2014,* this market is as big as 25 percent of the global mobile/smart phone market and steadily growing. The prpl foundation will contribute to further growth and importance of this market, enabling fast and innovative new MIPS based designs. Within the prpl foundation Lantiq will deliver innovation in efficiency, portability and compatibility for the benefit of a broad community of developers, businesses and consumers.
"We are delighted to be working with Lantiq as one of the technology leaders in the prpl foundation, to further develop the MIPS ecosystem," said Imagination CEO Hossein Yassaie. "Companies in the networking domain and beyond will profit from the considerable combined resources and open source innovations created by some of the best minds of the member companies and developer participants."
"We are excited to provide value to the prpl foundation, based on our rich experience and large footprint in the broadband communications industry," said Dan Artusi, CEO of Lantiq, in a Keynote speech he gave at the Imagination Summit 2014 in Santa Clara. "We believe that with the prpl open source initiative Imagination Technologies enters the next step in enabling their customers to offer highly competitive and leading edge networking solutions – based on MIPS Cores."
The MIPS architecture is widely used in networking, embedded and other key markets. To find out more about joining or benefiting from prpl visit: http://www.lantiq.com/prpl
About Lantiq
Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital Home. More Information about Lantiq is available on our Website or via Twitter @Lantiq and YouTube.
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* Including DSL, Cable, FTTH, Fixed LTE and Broadband Routers without Modem; Source: Infonetics BB CPE, March 17, 2014 and Infonetics Home Networking April 24, 2014
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Lantiq Launches World’s Fastest LTE Cat6 Gateway Platform
The New Broadband Gateway Reference Design – Developed with Intel – Delivers Up to 300 Mbps Data Rates
Computex, Taipei/Taiwan – June 3, 2014 – Lantiq today announced the availability of a joint reference platform with Intel for fixed LTE Broadband Router designs, offering up to 300 Mbps using Intel’s latest Cat6 capable LTE platform.
The co-developed reference platform combines the Intel® XMM™ 7260 LTE communications platform with Lantiq’s GRX330 Communications Processor and perfectly addresses the growing market demand for fixed 4G/LTE broadband services. Thanks to the unique architecture, the joint reference design enables customers to offer sophisticated and market leading broadand gateways and routers with high LTE throughput at low CPU load.
Key Features of the new fixed LTE Reference Design:
- An Intel designed M.2 module based on the Intel XMM 7260 platform delivers LTE-Advanced features including flexible carrier aggregation - up to 40Mhz with support for up to 23 CA combinations in one SKU – and category 6 speeds (300 Mbps theoretical peak downlink speeds).
- The 7260 also provides global communications, supporting more than 30 3GPP bands (21 bands simultaneous in a single SKU) and global network standards (LTE FDD/TDD, WCDMA/HSPA+, TD-SCDMA/TD-HSPA/EDGE).
- The Lantiq GRX330 communications processor offers a full Gigabit Ethernet router design, using a dedicated acceleration engine to maximize Wi-Fi throughput, while keeping the CPU available for other networking and application tasks
- The joint solution broadband gateway reference design delivers optimized system performance with up to 300 Mbps WAN to LAN throughput
Lantiq will demonstrate the joint reference design during Computex 2014.
More Information on Lantiq’s Broadband Gateway technology is available at: http://www.lantiq.com/GRX. Schedule an appointment:
Christoph von Schierstädt
Media Relations Lantiq
mobile: +49 (160) 96901486
e-mail: schierstaedt@lantiq.com About Lantiq
Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital Home. More Information about Lantiq is available on our Website or via Twitter @Lantiq and YouTube. ###
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Gigabit data rates over copper telephone lines
The next milestone in the build-out of the broadband access network is called Fiber-To-The-Distribution Point (FTTdp). This concept calls for running optical fiber to a distribution point that can be flexibly installed relatively close to the customer premise. The existing copper infrastructure is utilized to complete the access line to and within the building. To determine how 1-2 Gbit/s data rates can actually be achieved in such environments, researchers from Fraunhofer ESK will be working with Lantiq and InnoRoute GmbH until 2016 as part of the FlexDP research project.
Achieving high access data rates requires utilization of the higher frequency ranges on the phone lines. This is possible only if the copper line segment of the data transmission channel is relatively short. With this in mind, Fraunhofer ESK is analyzing the channel properties within these high frequency ranges as part of the FlexDP project. Lantiq and InnoRoute will use the results of this work to eventually develop a reverse powered, flexible distribution point installed closer to the customer premise. Through a combination of research, implementation and testing, the partners are laying the groundwork for the practical application of FTTdp.
Measuring channel properties in the 300 MHz frequency range
VDSL2 utilizes frequencies up to 30 MHz. With the aim of achieving still higher data rates, Fraunhofer ESK is examining the use of frequencies up to 300 MHz. Apart from the transmission characteristics of the line, background noise and sporadic impulse interference are important factors that impact transmission speeds. Higher frequency ranges permit the deployment of new transmission schemes such as G.fast, which operates up to 212 MHz and is currently in the standardization stage. By extending the currently used spectrum, data rates of up to 2 Gbit/s are theoretically possible, but only if the channel characteristics are consistently taken into consideration.
In order to gain a realistic picture of the situation in Germany, Fraunhofer ESK researchers identified and measured the various types of cables used in the country and examined typical customer premise wiring installations. Based on this preparatory work and with new measurements in the 300 MHz extended frequency range, engineers will develop a simulation environment allowing them to recreate and test a variety of network scenario. Researchers will then be able to pinpoint early on any issues that affect high bit rate data transmission, thus paving the way for the development of reliable solutions. The know-how gleaned from this work will furthermore flow into future transmission system designs and installations.
Energy-efficient, flexible distribution points accelerate network build-out
Higher data rates with a hybrid network can be reached on short lines. With G.fast, this equates to a maximum of around 250 meters. It also requires locations closer to the customer premise, a task made easier if the distribution points are not dependent on existing power lines and instead are reverse power fed by the customer's telephone lines. That means the shoebox-sized distribution points must be extremely energyefficient.
The major challenge of this remote power concept lies in the fluctuating loads placed on the network since each customer's behavior is usually different with respect to bandwidth usage and time of day. The hardware architectures and components that will be developed by Lantiq and InnoRoute must be as energy-efficient as possible, just like the transmission method itself, in order to deal with varying customer usage patterns. That means a single customer modem must provide enough power to operate the distribution point. Transmitter and receiver components also need the capability to dynamically turn on and off, which in turn results in dynamic changes to the crosstalk interference environment. This creates another challenge in developing algorithms for stable transmission in dynamically-changing scenarios. Fraunhofer ESK is furthermore working on emergency operation concepts to compensate for power outages.
This project is being funded by the Bavarian Research Foundation.
The project partners:
Fraunhofer Institute for Embedded Systems and Communication Technologies ESK undertakes applied research geared toward new information and communication technology (ICT) processes and methods. The engineering expertise of six core competencies is bundled across the Automotive, Industrial Communication and Telecommunication business units: Wired Transmission Technologies, Local Wireless Networks, Reliable Ethernet/IP Communication, Adaptive System, Model-based Software Development and Validation, Multicore Software.www.esk.fraunhofer.de/en For this project, InnoRoute is adapting its FlowEngine™ packet processor, which is deployed worldwide, to meet the special challenges associated with G.fast distribution points. This involves relying on the company's experience in cost-efficient packet processing and design space exploration methods.
The company, which was founded in 2010, boasts a product spectrum that encompasses solutions for improving access network, last mile and enterprise network quality of service. InnoRoute is also researching an SDN-based solution for controlling access network quality of service and is developing an innovative IPv6 router concept. Lantiq enables Carrier Innovations for Next Generation Networks and the Digital Home. Lantiq is a global provider of innovative semiconductor solutions powering broadband, next generation networks and the digital home. With a long history of industry success and leadership, Lantiq’s semiconductor and complementary software solutions are deployed by major carriers and in home networks in every region of the world. Specializing in broadband communications, including analog, digital and mixed-signal ICs, as well as complementary comprehensive software suites, Lantiq enables system manufacturers to design high-speed data and telecommunication systems solutions for broadband access and customer premises equipment.
For more information about Lantiq please visit our Lantiq Website or our Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube Channels. ### Download press release as PDF
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Lantiq Joins Team Researching Ultra-Fast Copper Broadband
Leading Chip Provider Lantiq Teams with Renowned Fraunhofer Institute and InnoRoute GmBH to Advance Cost-Effective Hybrid Copper/Fiber Access Network Technology
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany – July 18, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, today announced that it is participating in a multi-year project aimed at developing new FTTdp (Fiber to the Distribution Point) network technology to support data rates up to 2 Gbit/sec, an increase of 10X compared to today’s FTTdp installations. Lantiq, which already currently offers its VINAX™-dp single-chip solution for single-port FTTdp customer installations, is participating in the FlexDP project led by the renowned Fraunhofer Institute for Embedded Systems and Communication Technologies ESK. Also participating is InnoRoute GmBH, which will adapt its FlowEngine™ packet processor technology to meet the demands of data communications networks operating at frequencies approaching 300 MHz.
“For more than a decade, every so called technical limit to the maximum data rate possible over standard copper telecom lines has been overcome through the combination of advanced chip development and intelligent system design,” said Alois Eder, Head of Application Engineering Broadband Access. “The FlexDP project now aims to extend the capability of FTTdp network architectures by an order of magnitude compared to currently shipping state-of-the art access network technology, and we are very excited to be a part of this collaboration.”
More information about FlexDP and the project partners can be found here: http://www.esk.fraunhofer.de/en/media/press_releases/pm1407.html
About Lantiq
Lantiq offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital home. More Information about Lantiq is available on our Website or via Twitter @Lantiq and YouTube.
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300 Mbps VDSL Right Now – Lantiq Introduces New Fiber To The Distribution Point Solution
New Chipset and Systems from Leading OEMs Commercially Available Now
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany – September 30, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, today announced commercial availability of VINAX™ dp, an application-optimized Fiber To The distribution point (FTTdp) chipset. With the new offering, Lantiq provides Telcos and DSL Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with an immediate solution to counter competitive offerings from cable providers and to meet network performance goals set by government broadband initiatives.
The Lantiq VINAX dp chipset enables aggregated 300 Mbps over VDSL2 at distances up to 200m between a customer premise gateway and the fiber network distribution point. Based on Lantiq’s carrier-grade VDSL2 chips developed for line card applications, the new chip set operates in industrial temperature ranges and the low power consumption of the FTTdp unit enables installation in outdoor boxes with passive cooling.
FTTdp is available today and a cost-effective alternative to Fiber To The Home (FTTH) network topologies for many broadband access installations. FTTH requires the fiber to be deployed all the way into a customer’s premise, which is costly and may not be practicable in many scenarios. Since it can be line-powered from the customer premise, the FTTdp unit can be placed conveniently in carrier managed locations, while on the subscriber end, the standard VDSL CPE and power feeder is self-installed.
Key Features of the VINAX™dp
- Tightly integrated Lantiq carrier-class VDSL2 and GPON (FALC™ ON) solution
- 300 Mbps aggregated data rate with G.INP (retransmission) downstream and upstream
- Based on mature, future proof (VINAX CO platform) technology with demonstrated interoperability on both ends for GPON and VDSL links. Typical power consumption is 2.7 Watt for the VINAX dp chipset. The entire system consumes less than 6 Watts – including VDSL, GPON, DC/DC converter and all other active and passive components.
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Lantiq Licenses Sofics® on-chip ESD Solutions
Sofics DTSCR patent prevails over prior art in EPO opposition
MUNICH/NEUBIBERG, GISTEL/BELGIUM – October 07, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, today announced that it entered into a license and settlement agreement with Sofics, a leading developer and licensor of on-chip electrostatic discharge (ESD) solutions.
The license includes Sofics’ patented Diode Triggered Silicon Controlled Rectifier (DTSCR) protection clamps, which are widely used in the industry. “With Sofics’ technology, Lantiq’s 130nm and 65nm HP products are more economic for a wide range of chip-hostile environments, giving Lantiq a much greater reach into geographies and markets where its competition cannot play”, said Christoph von Schierstädt, Lantiq Communications Manager. “Sofics’ ESD solutions together with Lantiq’s best-in-class Telecom products thus create a triple-win solution for Sofics, Lantiq and its customers”.
Through an inquiry before the European Patent Office (EPO) Lantiq had sought review of Sofics’ DTSCR patent EP 1 368 874. “Sofics had welcomed the opportunity to strengthen the validity of its DTSCR solutions through an EPO opposition procedure, as we believed, we would significantly benefit from that,” said Koen Verhaege, Sofics CEO. “Indeed our TakeCharge® portfolio is now rock solid by the winning EPO decision. Moreover, this demonstrates to our licensees that we stand firm behind our intellectual property, and this shall convince other DTSCR users to enter into a proper license”.
Sofics ESD solutions are licensed in more than 3000 commercial high volume product ICs to more than 50 companies worldwide.
About Lantiq
Lantiq offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital home. More Information about Lantiq is available on its Website, via Twitter @Lantiq, and YouTube.
About Sofics
Sofics focuses on development, licensing and design services for on-chip device- and system-level protection and reliability. Sofics is an independent practicing IP provider. More information about Sofics is available on its Website or via Twitter @Sofics.
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Lantiq Introduces Industry’s First G.fast Residential Gateway Reference Design
Lantiq’s GRX330 AnyWAN™ Networking Processor Enables Gigabit Speeds into the Home
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany – October 07, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, today announced the EASY330 G.fast reference board, the industry’s first residential gateway reference design built around G.fast. The EASY330 uses the Lantiq AnyWAN™ concept based on Lantiq’s GRX330 multicore networking processing unit with Gigabit routing performance to provide maximum flexibility in CPE design and deployment. It also includes an embedded 11n offloading engine, maximized 802.11ac Wi-Fi throughput, Gigabit Ethernet switch and PHYs, carrier grade VoIP and built-in G.fast chipsets from Sckipio Technologies, the leader in G.fast modems.
Dan Artusi, CEO of Lantiq: “With the introduction of the EASY330 G.fast reference design we enable our customers to enter the next stage of designing leading-edge and future proof broadband gateways. The system marks a cornerstone in Lantiq’s G.fast roadmap, enabling telcos to cost-efficiently leverage and upgrade their copper based networks to Gigabit speeds.”
David Baum, CEO of Sckipio: “By partnering with Sckipio, Lantiq is the first company to deliver a complete, G.fast based end-to-end solution from the fiber node to the home. Our joint effort enables leading telcos to leverage their copper based networks to offer Gigabit speeds and bring ultrafast broadband to all homes.”
Lantiq has been a major contributor to the G.fast standardization efforts. G.fast is the next-generation broadband access recommendation from the ITU (G.9700/G.9701). This new last mile technology leverages the Broadband Forum’s Fiber to the Distribution Point (FTTdp) architecture and will deliver up to 1Gbps over twisted pair. With G.fast, service providers will lower the cost to deploy ultra broadband, keep operating costs low while improving overall consumer satisfaction.
Lantiq partnered with Sckipio to use Sckipio’s CP1000 G.fast modem chipsets in the EASY330 G.fast reference board to deliver robust, ultra-broadband performance from the FTTdp DPU to the residential gateway over copper wiring. Sckipio also works with Lantiq on its DP3016-EVM G.fast DPU Reference Design and included the Lantiq GPON SFP into its designs.
Competition from cable and government broadband initiatives motivate DSL providers to offer higher data rate services and these leading telcos are clamoring for smarter ways to offer the highest data rates to their customers. Getting fiber all the way into the home can be costly. When placed in fiber to the distribution point (FTTdp) scenarios, G.fast is the most attractive option to offer ultrafast broadband speeds for telecom operators.
The Lantiq GRX330 Communications Processors are available now and the Easy330 G.fast Reference Board will be available by the end of the year.
More information available at: http://www.lantiq.com/Gfast
About Lantiq
Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, offers a broad and innovative semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital Home.
More Information about Lantiq is available on our Website or via Twitter @Lantiq, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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Lantiq Enables 200 Mbps over 200 Meters of Copper Wires
Article by Charles Hall in THE Online Reporter
Its FTTdp Technology Is Available Now
An executive at a major US telco once asked, back in the dawn of the digital media era, “Why would anyone need 1 Mbps in their home?” Until recently, we said that 50 Mbps was sufficient for most residences but the changing market for OTT services has prompted us to increase that to 100 Mbps or more. Chipmaker Lantiq has pioneered a broadband technology called FTTdp (fiber-to-the-distribution-point) that allows telcos to offer speeds in excess of 100 Mbps without having to install fiber all the way to the home. Its newest FTTdp chipset, called Vinax dp, allows telcos to offer speeds up to 200 Mbps down and 100 Mbps up without the costly, messy and time consuming process of deploying fiber all the way to each residence. The fiber that the Vinax-capable equipment is connected to can be as far as 200 meters away from the residence. That’s a long way when you’re digging trenches or stringing fiber on poles. The savings for telcos in not having to build all-fiber networks is in the billions of dollars and it’s hundreds of thousands of work hours... ... Read the full story at: http://www.onlinereporter.com/2014/10/08/lantiq-enables-200-mbps-over-200-meters-of-copper-wires/↧
Lantiq Enables Internet of Things by Integrating HAN FUN Into Its Broadband Gateways
DECT ULE Device Protocol HAN FUN – Simple, Powerful Home Area Network Control Now on Lantiq’s Gateway Chipset Families
Munich/Neubiberg, Germany – October 14, 2014 – Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, has now advanced its strategy to make the broadband gateway the central node for smart home networks by integrating support for the ULE Alliance’s HAN FUN protocol into its software powering the xRX 200/300 Gateway System-on-Chip families.
Integration of the HAN FUN (Home Area Network FUNctionality) protocol makes it easy for gateways based on Lantiq chipsets to act as a home automation hub with support for “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as climate sensors and control units, smart meters, lighting and smart appliances.
Powerful HAN Platform
Developed and published by the ULE Alliance, the HAN FUN application layer protocol enables device and application developers to manage the operation of home automation systems using DECT ULE wireless network technology. For equipment vendors, service providers and end-users, DECT ULE has several distinct advantages in home automation applications.
- Long-reach, reliable and secure connectivity across typical home environments using mature DECT wireless technology, which operates on frequency bands not subject to interference from other in-home wireless networks (i.e. Bluetooth, WiFi).
- Low power operation, which assures that HAN nodes can operate on battery-power for time periods measured in years.
- Device interoperability based on broad support across the smart home device and networking value chain.
- Scalability demonstrated by extensive ecosystem of hardware and device suppliers that have shipped hundreds of millions of DECT phones.
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