Teknovus Ships EPON System-on-a-Chip

Teknovus, a start-up based in Petaluma, California announced shipment of a fully integrated Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) controller for Optical Network Units (ONUs). The device is compliant with the emerging IEEE 802.3ah EPON standard. It integrates an 802.3ah EPON engine supporting multiple logical links, along with an EPON SERDES, two Ethernet PHYs, integrated buffers, and an embedded processor for management in a single package. The device also includes line-rate Layer 2/3/4 packet filtering and classification hardware, offers a broad suite of VLAN functions, and incorporates a rich set of management functions, statistics, and programmable alarms. http://www.teknovus.com