PMC-Sierra’s HyPHY enables FiberHome to deliver breakthrough multi-service convergence over OTN

SUNNYVALE, USA: PMC-Sierra Inc. announced that FiberHome, one of China’s leading fiber-optic communications equipment providers, has selected PMC-Sierra’s HyPHY chipset for its FONST Series family of WDM optical transmission solutions.

The modular architecture of the FONST solutions combined with the industry-leading multi-service capabilities enabled by the HyPHY family offers the capabilities required to meet the diverse OTN network deployment requirements worldwide. FiberHome’s muxponders and transponders enable carriers to deploy power optimized, scalable, OTN networks that address the increasing bandwidth requirements driven by 3G and 4G mobile, Carrier Ethernet, IPTV and cloud services.

“FiberHome’s FONST WDM solutions address the Carriers’ requirements for multi-service agility and high-capacity adaptability with increased power efficiency,” said Fan Zhiwen, vice-general manager of FiberHome’s Transport Business Unit. “We standardized on PMC-Sierra’s HyPHY products because they enabled us to significantly reduce our development costs by eliminating multiple designs, in addition to offering uniform functionality across our platforms. By achieving this design breakthrough at 50 percent lower power, we are confident that our best-in-class WDM product line will enable FiberHome to offer OTN solutions to Carriers around the world.”

“Regardless of geography or service mix, our HyPHY chipset solves the complex service aggregation over OTN problem in Carriers’ access and metro networks. We are pleased to bring such architecture innovation to the market in collaboration with FiberHome and to expand our participation in the worldwide OTN network build-out,” said Babak Samimi, vice president of marketing and applications of PMC-Sierra’s Communication Products Division.

FiberHome’s FONST Series is an intelligent WDM offering based on OTN technology with scalability up to 3.85TB/s capacity. In conjunction with enhanced switching technology for both optical and electrical layers, the product line will now offer a uniform capability to flexibly aggregate, cross-connect and transport a wide range of protocols from SONET/SDH, Ethernet, Fiber Channel/SAN and video over converged OTN networks.