IKANOS TAKES FIRST SWING AT VDSL2 CHIP MARKET

摘要

Ikanos Communications this week will announce that it has started sample production of its second-generation VDSL2 chipsets, marking what should be its first large-scale attempt to get into the U.S. and European markets. The company's SmartLeap 9402 and SmartLeap 9450 are successors to the company's first VDSL2 chipsets, which were announced in December 2004, several months before the ITU settled on the standard. In either case, the chips, which are listed at $15 to $20 per port in volume, are geared to sit on line cards in broadband access concentrators, remote units, mini-RAMs and ATM or IP DSLAMs.