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“The GRX350 will power the most secure gateways ever available for home net-works.”

“Gives cop-perwire telcos their most efficient broad-band ever.”

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Lantiq’s 8-Port VINAX dp8 Chipset Allows up to 300 Mbps per ResidenceYou can see from these and other product announcements why Intel wanted to acquire Lantiq in a deal that closed this week. It gives Intel strength in DSL and fiber broadband technology for telcos in addition to what Intel already had in DOCSIS technology for cablecos.

Lantiq’s new 8-port FTTdp (fiber-to-the-distribution-point) VINAX dp8 chipset allows up to an aggregated 300 Mbps per VDSL line at distances up to 100 meters from the DPU. The chipset can be in a tiny box that’s only 16 x 16 cm and does not need a separate power outlet. Lantiq said it gives copper-wire telcos their most efficient broadband ever. Lantiq believes it is the industry’s best at efficiency because of its dedicated reverse power extractor and the efficiency of the GPON NPU plus it has the lowest unit cost because there is no need for custom chips.

The advantage of FTTdp technology is that it allows telcos to reduce both their deployment costs and time-to-market for offering competitive broadband speeds because they can use their existing telephone wires to the residence and within MDUs.

Distribution points (DPUs) made with the VINAX dp8 chipsets connects the telco’s fiber cable to the existing copper phone wires. They can support up to eight modems/gateways in residences. The chipset “integrates all required network processing functions for flow control with advanced impulse noise protection (G.INP) and solid quality of service (QoS) features.”

Lantiq’s recommended reference design includes reverse powering, which means power comes from the modem/gateway and telcos do not need to install an electrical outlet near the DPU. Its advanced reverse power capability balances power sharing among up to eight homes.

Dirk Wieberneit, SVP and GM of Lantiq’s broadband business unit, called the VINAX dp8 chipset “a

paradigm shifting innovation that enables ultra-low cost MDUs” — and “at minimal system cost per port.”

Lantiq’s New Gateway Processor Is Multi-Functional

Last month Lantiq announced a new home gateway network processor — the GRX350 — that it called “the industry’s most integrated home gateway network processor.” It provides Quality of Service (QoS) for all incoming and outgoing data, a dedicated execution processor and hardware-enforced virtualization, which separates concurrent applications so that networking functions execute separately from non-networking applications, such as smart home services.

The GRX350 has multi-function capabilities. Lantiq said the multi-MIPS-based GRX350 network processor “integrates carrier-grade edge router features into its advanced home gateway architecture, which includes multiple CPUs, Gigabit switch with integrated GPHYs, 3x3 Wi-Fi, Voice and DECT telephony plus handles any kind of wide-area-network (WAN) connectivity including the new G.fast standard as well as GPON, Gigabit Ethernet WAN, VDSL2 or hybrid access network approaches such as DSL/LTE (DSL + LTE).”

It also integrates offloading technologies to intelligently manage the multi-millions of packets from all the wired and wireless devices competing for network bandwidth in digital home environments doing it with a 0% CPU load.

Rainer Spielberg, VP and chief of Lantiq’s residential gateway solutions business line, said, “With Lantiq TrueQoS, customers get the service they want at the quality they want. In addition the GRX350 will power the most secure gateways ever available for home networks, thanks to the dedicated security core. We believe these unique features will be the heart of the true digital home.”

Lantiq Chips to Power New IoT PlatformWe don’t typically report on IoT but another reason

Intel will be happy with its Lantiq acquisition is

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“Gigabit Speed Test is a pow-erful new anal-ysis tool that enables both carriers and their subscrib-ers to track and manage the quality of the broadband service”

“Lantiq has been at the forefront of combing DSL and LTE into one consumer premises de-vice for use in areas with slow DSL speeds.”

Lantiq’s partnership with IOLITE, a spin-off of DAI-Labor (Technical University of Berlin), on an open smart home platform called IOLITE. It allows devices of all standards and kinds — such as sensors, actuators or cameras — to be integrated and used in a home. Lantiq’s family of GRX 300 network processors powers the IOLITE platform.

Intel has said IoT is one of its growth opportunities.The Lantiq/IOLITE technology is aimed for

use in future smart homes and smart cities that will support the emerging e-health, e-mobility, e-energy and industry 4.0 markets. Its key feature is interoperability. Lantiq said, “IOLITE offers a unique, open smart home ecosystem with a pure focus on interoperability — the broadband gateway will be the central hub in the connected home, enabling the easy management of all devices, home automation, the Internet of Things (IoT) and further applications. The IOLITE ecosystem offers cooperation opportunities and benefits for all participating partners, including users, installers, developers, providers and device manufacturers. Related tools enable smart and easy configuration of the smart home environment.”

IOLITE plans its market launch for the third quarter of 2015.

It’s Done! Lantiq Is Intel’sIntel said this week that it has completed the

acquisition of Lantiq from Golden Gate Capital. Intel already had products with the cablecos’ DOCSIS technology. Lantiq adds technology in DSL/VDSL, fiber/LTE/IoT but not in G.fast although Lantiq has a close product partnership with G.fast chipmaker Sckipio. Sckipio uses Lantiq technology in the reference designs for G.fast product.

Lantiq has been at the forefront of combing DSL and LTE into one consumer premises device for use in areas with slow DSL speeds. By combining the two technologies, it said, it has been able to achieve speeds that are capable of delivering flicker-free video streams. Initial interest, Lantiq said, has been in Europe but it expects interest to increase in Latin American countries.

Dan Artusi, who has been Lantiq’s CEO since 2012, will head up Intel’s combined DOCSIS/DSL/Fiber organization, which will be called Intel’s Connected Home Division. IoT is not included because Intel’s IoT team is developing technology for devices, not for broadband, which the Connected Home Division is doing. Artusi will report to Gregory Bryant who is Intel’s corporate VP of the client computing group.

No layoffs are planned and Intel has already begun integrating Lantiq’s employees, who are mainly in Munich, into Intel.

Intel published positive remarks from a number of its direct and indirect customers about the Lantiq acquisition:

Comcast EVP and CTO Tony WernerLiberty Global EVP and CTO Balan NairTelefonica GCTO and director of fixed access

and home network director business Jose Luis Espla Gutierrez

ARRIS CTO for its CPE operations Charles Cheever

Sagemcom Broadband deputy CEO Ahmed Selmani

As for Lantiq, it now has instant credibility for its products in every telco worldwide.

Ikanos’ New Broadband Speed Test Technology Bypasses the Home Network - Accurately Tests Broadband SpeedMost people check their bandwidth speed from a device such as PC, smartphone or tablet. The problem is that those are speeds that are impacted by the vagaries of the home network’s performance, whether Wi-Fi or wireline.

Chipmaker Ikanos Communications is embedding its new Gigabit Speed Test software in the chips it makes for gateways, regardless of the broadband access technology it uses. That’ll allow telcos to accurately measure the data speed of the broadband they’re providing, even for rates up to 1 Gbps. Ikanos said “Gigabit Speed Test is a powerful new analysis tool that enables both carriers and their subscribers to

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