VoIP Gateways

Ikanos (News - Alert) Communications, a provider of advanced broadband semiconductor and software products, stated that its Fusiv Vx575 multi-mode gateway processor will hereon power Comtrend’s next-generation LTE (News - Alert) home gateway platform.

By acquiring its first LTE gateway design win, Ikanos is said to have taken its processors beyond the DSL market and into the expanding wireless market that is experiencing one of the highest compounded annual growth rates among networking technologies.

Said to be the first ever residential gateway in the industry to support Category 7 LTE data rates with speeds ranging up to 400 Mbps, the Comtrend (News - Alert) LTE home gateway will feature ten high-performance and low-power Fusiv co-processor engines with each CPU capable of offering 1.2 GHz of processing power.

John Hsieh, marketing director for Comtrend, stated, “Our partnership with Ikanos has resulted in what we believe will be one of the most full-featured, highest-performing LTE residential gateways in the market. LTE is driving massive growth in demand for high-powered home gateways. Ikanos’ multi-mode gateway platform is a great enabler for us to address this market demand, while creating the foundation for addressing multiple WAN access technologies in our residential gateway roadmap.”

According to Ikanos, Fusiv Vx575 product family are a high performance and highly integrated series of communications processors that provide up to 13 GHz overall processing power. They enable easy integration with WAN and LAN networking technologies and are stated to be specifically designed for LTE gateways, residential home Ethernet gateways, SoHo/SME gateways, and more.

Kourosh Amiri, vice president of marketing at Ikanos, said, “We are very happy to be selected by Comtrend as the processor of choice for its next-generation LTE gateway platform. The introduction of the Vx57x multi-mode gateway processor family at CES (News - Alert) earlier this year was a major step for Ikanos in expanding our addressable market beyond DSL, which has historically been the focus of the company. We are very excited about this collaboration with Comtrend, as they share our vision and commitment to bringing highly innovative broadband gateway solutions to the market.”