ALISO VIEJO, Calif.,
June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Microsemi Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP), today announced its
collaboration with China Telecom Beijing Research Institute to
define and develop next-generation optical transport solutions to
meet the stringent requirements of 5G. China Telecom is leading the
Next-Generation Optical Transport Network Forum (NGOF) consortium
formed to drive industry collaboration and technological
innovations to define converged optical transport network (OTN)
which meet the needs of 5G deployments. As part of this
collaboration, Microsemi is bringing to market the DIGI-G5, the
newest member of its award-winning DIGI
OTN processors, supporting new 5G optimized architecture
that enables the stringent synchronization, latency and network
slicing requirements being placed on optical networks to support 5G
deployments.
5G's variety of use cases will impose new requirements like
network slicing, stringent latency and timing synchronization on
the underlying optical transport networks. With 25G, 50G and
100Gbps port rates planned for 5G remote radio heads, the traffic
flow from the radio to the mobile edge will dramatically increase.
With the promise of up to 50x lower end-to-end latency, the optical
transport network will play a critical role in enabling
ultrareliable low latency communication (uRLLC) applications such
as autonomous vehicles. New architectures leveraging hard traffic
isolation will further enhance the business opportunities network
slicing is set to bring for mobile operators.
"China Telecom plans to be the pioneer in both 5G commercial
service and 400G OTN network commercial deployments. A
mobile-optimized converged metro, multiservice and cloud-based OTN
transport network is critical to both initiatives," said Zhang
Chengliang, vice president, China Telecom Beijing Research
Institute. "The availability of Microsemi's DIGI-G5 will help the
industry deliver a new generation of OTN equipment to enable the 5G
era."
DIGI-G5 Enables the 5G Era
In response to the 5G challenges, Microsemi's new 5G optimized
architecture of the DIGI-G5 reduces the total latency for single
hop close to 1 microsecond. In addition, the DIGI-G5 integrates
close to two terabits of on-chip ODUk switching for hard traffic
isolation and grooming in support of network slicing. With original
equipment manufacturers looking to upgrade their platforms to meet
Precision Time Protocol's (PTP's) Class C requirements, the DIGI-G5
delivers best-in-class nanosecond level time stamping accuracy and
provides mechanisms to carry critical timing information over the
OTN network.
"As a market leader in OTN processors powering packet optical
transport networks world-wide, we are focusing our investments to
enable service providers to leverage economy of scale and realize
operational efficiencies by extending OTN from their metro networks
to the access as the packet optical topology for 5G transport,"
said Babak Samimi, vice president
and business unit manager for Microsemi's Communications business
unit. "As a founding member of NGOF along with China Telecom,
Microsemi is innovating and optimizing OTN for mobile applications
and DIGI-G5 is bringing together the critical pieces like
synchronization, latency, and network slicing needed for 5G."
Microsemi's DIGI-G5 offers differentiating features and
innovations to support the 5G era:
- New OTN 3.0 rates, enabling flexible (FlexO) and fractional
100G+ transmission
- Comprehensive Ethernet support including 25GE, 50GE and
100GbE
- Close to 1 microsecond datapath latency
- Supports hard traffic isolation and slicing over OTN
- High precision nanosecond level IEEE 1588 PTP timestamping
accuracy
- Integrated G.HAO bandwidth-on-demand processing for OTN
switching networks closer to the access
Product Availability
Microsemi's new DIGI-G5 will be sampling in the second calendar
quarter of 2018. For more information, visit
www.microsemi.com/digi-g5 or email sales.support@microsemi.com. For
more information about Microsemi's overall OTN product portfolio
visit
https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/optical-networking/3659-otn.
About NGOF
More information can be found at
http://ngof.net/index.html.
About Microsemi's Product Portfolio for
Communications
Microsemi is a premier supplier of semiconductor, system and
services differentiated by performance, power reliability and
security. Microsemi enables customers to build solutions in a range
of applications including Ethernet switches, 100G Ethernet and OTN,
cellular infrastructure including LTE-Advanced and 5G, small cells,
microwave and millimeter wave systems, Wi-Fi access points, XGS PON
or NGPON2 based converged wireline access, broadband gateways
including fiber/PON, G.fast and DOCSIS3.1, and home/on-premise
security/surveillance. Microsemi's communications portfolio
includes high accuracy timing and synchronization including
IEEE1588 PTP and NTP servers, software and components; low jitter
PLL and high fan-out buffers, enterprise and carrier Ethernet
switches and PHYs, voice and audio intelligence including AEC and
ASR, lowest power FPGAs with high security and reliability; PCI
Express Switches, OTN PHYs and processors, optical drivers,
integrated Wi-Fi front-end modules (FEM) and power-efficient and
multi-standard power-over-Ethernet (PoE) ICs and systems, and G.hn,
G.fast and xDSL line drivers. For more information, visit
https://www.microsemi.com/applications/communications.
About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary Microchip
Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP), offers a comprehensive portfolio of
semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense
& security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include
high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal
integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management
products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time
solutions, setting the world's standard for time; voice processing
devices; RF solutions; discrete components; enterprise storage and
communication solutions, security technologies and scalable
anti-tamper products; Ethernet solutions; Power-over-Ethernet ICs
and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services.
Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso
Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 4,800 employees
globally. Learn more at www.microsemi.com.
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