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Ikanos (News - Alert) Communications, Inc., the provider of advanced broadband solutions for the digital home, has announced that XAVi Technologies Corporation has selected the Ikanos Fusiv Vx180 high-performance gateway processor for its VDSL2/ADSL2+ triple play residential gateways. With the major focus being on the North American and European markets, the XAVi residential gateways will be sold globally.

 

Designed to enable service providers to launch next-generation services, Ikanos Communications' Fusiv Vx180 is a low-power single-chip multi-mode VDSL2/ADSL2+ gateway processor. Supporting best-in-class quality of service (QoS) for triple play experiences, the Vx180 provides 2.7 GHz of processing power with integrated voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) processing. Enabling Vx180 to achieve wire speed packet processing performance across all LAN and WAN interfaces, the product boasts of Ikanos' unique Accelerator Processor (News - Alert) architecture.

 

Integrating easily with home networking technologies, such as MoCA, Home PNA, HomePlug and 802.11n, Vx180 provides a powerful triple-play solution, which will incorporate features such as Seamless Rate Adaptation (SRA) technologies and Ikanos' Rapid Rate Adaptation (RRA). This will enable the development of a high-performance, integrated residential gateway platform for multi-play applications.

 

The universal gateway processors provided by XAVi offer low power, small footprint and flexibility, which is required to design a high-performance multi-mode xDSL residential gateway. With the help of the VDSL2/ADSL2+ residential gateway solution, ODMs can quickly bring to market products that meet the stringent requirements of broadband providers around the world.

 

“Ikanos Communications is at the forefront of the industry with its advanced, multi-mode broadband solutions,” said Jack Liu, associate vice president of research and design at XAVi. “The company's gateway processors give us the ability to design and deliver the optimal product for service providers: a cost effective and backward compatible residential gateway capable of supporting both today's ADSL installed base and the next-generation of high-performance VDSL2 solutions.”