EPON Equipment Manufacturer DML
(NASDAQ: BRCM) has announced availability of EPON optical network unit (ONU) and optical line terminal (OLT) chipsets and DOCSIS mediation layer (DML) software compliant to CableLabs' DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON (DPoE) 1. This HAL layer is intended to support DPoE drivers through an open API based on the DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON Specifications. h file provides the function call prototypes and structure definitions used for the RDK-Broadband DPoE hardware abstraction layer. Due to the lower receiver sensitivity at 25Gb/s line rate and the extra loss of mux/demux, 100G EPON high likely needs optical pre-amplifiers to meet the PR30 power budget requirement.
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