Sunnyvale, Calif., Cortina Systems, Inc. (Cortina™), a fast-growing leader in intelligent communication systems, hosted last week’s meeting of the Full Service Access Network (FSAN), a consortium of more than 80 of the world’s largest telecommunications service providers, testing labs and equipment manufacturers. The meeting, held in San Francisco, California February 2-5, 2010, focused mainly on the transmission convergence and management specifications of XG-PON (10 Gigabit-capable PON) systems, a new family of access solutions that will meet the continuously growing demand of bandwidth per customer. The complete set of specifications is expected to be finished in mid-2010.
“The number of fiber-based access subscribers is expected to grow dramatically worldwide over the next decade with service providers deploying passive optical networks to offer more revenue-generating services, such as HD and 3D IPTV, video on demand, VoIP, online gaming, and ultra-broadband Internet access,” said Paolo Solina, Chair of the FSAN Optical Access Network Working Group. “Cortina’s sponsorship of the FSAN meeting enables an opportunity for the industry leaders to collaborate and work together to achieve significant progress on the development of FSAN next generation access solutions.”
“Cortina has always worked closely with worldwide carriers to understand their challenges in managing multi service access networks,” said Dr. Zino Chair, vice president, marketing at Cortina. “Cortina shares FSAN’s goal of a truly broadband fiber access network and was pleased to host the February 2010 FSAN quarterly meeting.”
About FSAN
The Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group is an interest group for the world's leading telecommunications services providers, independent test labs, and equipment suppliers to work towards a common goal of truly broadband fiber access networks. The Mission of FSAN is to drive applicable standards, where they already exist, into the services and products in the industry, while simultaneously advancing its own specifications into the appropriate standard bodies to provide further definition to the Full Service Access Network. FSAN has more than 80 members representing the leading implementers of B-PON (Broadband Passive Optical Network) systems and multi-Gigabit rate G-PON and, XG-PON equipment. For more information, please visit http://fsanweb.com.
About Cortina Systems
Through continuous innovations in advanced port processing and intelligent port connectivity, Cortina Systems, Inc is a leading supplier of intelligent communication solutions for the Core, Metro, Access, Digital Home and Enterprise network market segments. Cortina delivers a wide suite of products that address customers’ performance, density, and flexibility needs with state-of-the-art, high-speed, analog-digital integration technology. Cortina solutions enable faster time-to-market, longer time-in-market, and increased revenue opportunities. Working closely with customers to understand their system requirements and anticipate their needs, Cortina is creating the foundation for new generations of services.