Ten gigabit Optical tRansceiver iNtegrAteD circuit for pOn applications

适用于 PON 应用的 10 吉比特光收发器集成电路

• 批准号: 720738
• 金额: $ 31.74万
• 依托单位: HILIGHT SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720738
• 关键词: Ten; gigabit; Optical; tRansceiver; iNtegrAteD

Increasing demand for bandwidth-intensive applications by businesses and domesticconsumers, along with the emerging ‘Internet of Things’, is straining our broadband networksand could lead to data demand outpacing supply. The EU Fibre to the Home (FTTH) Councilstates that “fast broadband infrastructure is now a determining factor in ensuring the economicfortunes of cities and regions”. With Ofcom reporting that average UK speeds were 15Mbpsin 2013, the UK’s current infrastructure is barely capable of servicing existing demand. It isclear that much needs to be done, when one considers that the EU, through Europe’s DigitalAgenda, has set targets of universal fast broadband (30Mbps) and >50% take up of ultra-highspeedbroadband (100Mbps) by 2020.Passive Optical Networks (PON) provide the majority of the world’s fibre-optic broadband.Although the fibre optic cable within PONs can provide practically unlimited bandwidth (1-4Tbps), the high cost of current technology dictates that PON’s current capability is restrictedto 2.5Gbps. HiLight Semiconductor Ltd has devised a Proof of Concept for a highlyinnovative approach to upgrading a critical juncture of PON in order to deliver 10Gbpsspeeds. Our approach is simple and inexpensive, outperforming all existing alternatives. Weare now ready for the next step which is to develop the concept through to a successfulprototype stage.Within 5 years of completing this project (2022) we expect our solution to generatecumulative revenue and profit of £28million and £20million respectively, in turn creating 52highly skilled world-class jobs.

企业和国内消费者对带宽密集型应用的需求不断增加，加上新兴的“物联网”，正在给我们的宽带网络带来压力，并可能导致数据需求超过供应。欧盟光纤到户 (FTTH) 理事会指出，“快速宽带基础设施现在是确保城市和地区经济财富的决定性因素”。 Ofcom 报告称，2013 年英国的平均速度为 15Mbps，英国当前的基础设施几乎无法满足现有需求。显然，欧盟通过欧洲数字议程设定了到 2020 年普及快速宽带 (30Mbps) 和超高速宽带 (100Mbps) 占有率超过 50% 的目标，显然还有很多工作要做。无源光网络 (PON) 提供了世界上大部分光纤宽带。尽管 PON 内的光纤电缆实际上可以提供无限的带宽。 带宽（1-4Tbps），当前技术的高成本决定了PON当前的能力仅限于2.5Gbps。 HiLight Semiconductor Ltd 设计了一种高度创新的概念验证方法，用于升级 PON 的关键节点，以提供 10Gbps 的速度。我们的方法简单且廉价，优于所有现有的替代方案。我们现在已准备好下一步，即将概念发展到成功的原型阶段。在完成该项目的 5 年内（2022 年），我们预计我们的解决方案将分别产生 2800 万英镑和 2000 万英镑的累计收入和利润，从而创造 52 个高技能的世界级就业岗位。