EMCORE Expands its PON Portfolio With the Product Release and Commercial Shipments of Burst Mode APD/TIA Components
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 26 /-- EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ:EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and solar power markets, today announced strategic sampling of the 1.244Gbps Burst-Mode, ITU G.984 compliant APD/TIA for the rapidly expanding Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) OLT market. EMCORE was the first to bring into production the 1.25Gbps Burst Mode APD/TIA products for Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (GEPON) OLT applications. Building on this product line, EMCORE has created APD/TIA packaged components for the for the rapidly expanding North American GPON OLT Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) market.
"EMCORE's latest addition to the APD family of products has been driven by the rapid growth in GPON deployments expected in 2007. EMCORE has successfully served the GEPON market over the last few years by working closely with strategic suppliers," said Dr. Tom Tumolillo, Jr., Product Line Manager for Devices and Components at EMCORE's Fiber Optics Division. "The product teams at EMCORE and Vitesse have worked closely to bring to market the first integrated APD/TIA GPON OLT solution that does not require external timing circuits based on the Vitesse VSC7718 GPON OLT TIA."
Dr. Tumolillo added, "We are very excited to see our customers' adoption of our latest GPON OLT APD/TIA products." Matthew Dru, Product Marketing Manager for the Networks Products Division at Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation in Camarillo, California, added, "We are pleased to have supported EMCORE in the GEPON OLT Burst Mode development and are looking forward to supporting EMCORE's expansion into the rapidly growing GPON OLT market in 2007."
According to a report on March 2nd, 2007 by Dittberner Associates, Inc., a market research and consulting firm specializing in the telecommunications industry, the FTTH market is up 58% year-on-year to 4.6 Million ONT/OLT ports shipped in 2006 with the number of ONT/OLT ports increasing to 6.8 million ports in 2007. Most of the shipments through 2006 were for the GEPON market. However, Dittberner predicts that in 2007 the GPON market will expand rapidly with the expectation that Verizon will add 1 million FTTH subscribers mostly utilizing the new and faster GPON standard that will initiate a large-scale adoption of GPON in North America.
The APD/TIA family of products is part of the EMCORE FTTH PON Packaged Component Product Line for use in applications in both the GEPON and GPON -- ONU/OLT -- market segments.
The EMCORE FTTH PON Product Portfolio will be on display at the OFC/NFOEC conference in Anaheim, CA, on March 27-29, 2007 at booth #3142. For more information on these products and EMCORE, please visit www.emcore.com/
About EMCORE
EMCORE Corporation offers a broad portfolio of compound semiconductor- based products for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and solar power markets. EMCORE's Fiber Optic segment offers optical components, subsystems and systems for high speed data and telecommunications networks, cable television (CATV) and fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP). EMCORE's Photovoltaic segment provides products for both satellite and terrestrial applications. For satellite applications, EMCORE offers high efficiency Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) solar cells, Covered Interconnect Cells (CICs) and panels. For terrestrial applications, EMCORE is adapting its high-efficiency GaAs solar cells for use in solar concentrator systems. For further information about EMCORE, visit www.emcore.com .
CONTACT: Brian Gibson, Sr. Director of Sales and Marketing of EMCORE Corporation, +1-505-323-3400, brian_gibson@EMCORE.com
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