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VDSL2 and Ikanos

Ikanos Communications went public today. Nothing spectacular, but their stock closed up a dollar on the first day of trading. Ikanos is interesting because they are the market leader in producing chips that support the new VDSL2 technology. VDSL2 promises to deliver very high bandwidth over very short copper loops. (But be careful. It runs out of gas compared with. ADSL2+ past (insert a speculative VDSL2 loop length here); my estimate is only 6Kft or so.

This article by Dean Takahashi in the San Jose Mercury News provides useful background:

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“Chip makers such as Germany’s Infineon, Texas Instruments, Conexant Systems and Broadcom plan to challenge Ikanos, as do smaller players such as Metalink and Centillium Communications. Japan, Germany and France are in the adoption stage now. But the VDSL chip makers have to wait for the phone companies to mobilize in the United States.”

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“We are seeing the interest growing in all markets worldwide,” said Imran Hajimusa, senior director of marketing at Infineon in San Jose. “But overall, it’s a tough market because there are a lot of competitors.”

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In-Stat believes the [VDSL2] market will grow to between 40 million and 60 million in 2009. That means the market will grow from around $100 million in 2004 to a multibillion-dollar business.

[via SiliconValley.com]

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One Response to “VDSL2 and Ikanos”

  1. James Chia Says:
    October 17th, 2005 at 8:04 pm

    Hi,

    How do you do.

    I am Ser Pan from Network Development. My dept function is to explore future technology and field trial such as WiMax, IP TV and VDSL2.

    At present the highest speed rate offered by Singnet is 25Mbps in which ADSL2+ modem has the capbability to reach over the short loop path.

    We are exporing VDSL2 for Symmetric 100/100 Mbpsover the short copper path for near future deployment.

    Appreciates it if you could provide infomation pertaining to your vdsl2 chipset as follows:

    1) Name of the chipset

    2) Does your chipset supports 6 frequency band defined in VDSL2?

    3) How about backward compatibility to ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2+?

    4) support both ATM and full packet mode?

    5) Pricing of the VDSL2 modem, if any.

    Thank you and Best Regards.

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