A pair of vendors announced plans recently to introduce residential gateways later this year that would act as both broadband home routers and optical network terminals—bringing inside the home the optical network terminals that usually sit outside. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Actiontec announced plans to start shipping a new Gigabit passive optical network (GPON) gateway in the second half of the year. That prompted Amedia Networks to announce its own plans to ship a similar product (essentially its existing very high-bit-rate-digital-subscriber-line gateway, fitted with GPON interfaces) this summer.
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