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www.xelerated.com - Vantage Communications for Xelerated Ilene Adler, 415-984-1970 ext. 102 iadler@pr-vantage.com or Xelerated, AB Thomas Eklund, +46 8 506 25 775 Vice President Marketing and Business Development Thomas.Eklund@xelerated.com Xelerated, the global leader in field-proven Carrier Ethernet ASSP-based chipsets, today announced a new reference design for GPON. Xelerated's new HX300 family of

network processor units (NPUs) and Ethernet switches can now interoperate with Broadlight's BL3458 controller. The fully integrated GPON solution enables carriers to deploy revenue-generating services in the access network while reducing costs, increasing time-to-market and ultimately enabling mass volume deployment.

The new solution introduces feature flexibility into the first mile, extending the lifetime of the network by 10 to 15 years. This future-proofs the Carrier FTTx build-outs and enables vendor interoperability, which is a challenge today for many carriers. In addition, software support has been added for GPON to facilitate smooth integration for the network equipment vendor.

"The GPON OLT market is expected to show tremendous growth over the next few years as carriers in North America and Europe build out GPON infrastructure. The combined Xelerated/Broadlight OLT solution provides a unique combination of high integration and feature flexibility," said Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group. "This solution drives down cost for the network equipment vendor while allowing carriers to benefit from programmability in the access network - ultimately providing for easier and more rapid introduction of new services."

Xelerated's HX300 family of devices offers seamless support of Broadlight's 2.5 G mode interface. The solution is suited for both Chassis-based GPON systems as well as ETSI-based pizzaboxes. The Chassis-based solution typically uses Xelerated's HX310 series of programmable Ethernet switches on the line card to reduce costs while Xelerated's HX330 series of NPUs is used on the uplink card to terminate TR-101 and Metro Ethernet Services, as well as ETSI-based pizzaboxes. Utilizing this solution, network equipment vendors can now increase their densities on the line card to 16 GPON ports per line card, driving down costs and power while increasing integration.

"This is a natural step for us. We have been working with several lead customers to find the right balance of system partitioning for the lowest possible cost. Now we can allow our customers to deliver unprecedented service density to drive new revenue-generating services," said Thomas Eklund, vice president of marketing and business development at Xelerated.

"We are very excited to work with Xelerated on this innovative GPON solution," said Doron Tal, vice president of business development and product management at Broadlight. "By offering glueless support between the BL3458 Quad GPON OLT device and the HX300 family of devices, we offer a pre-tested and fully integrated solution to our customer which ultimately shortens the time-to-market."

The HX300-based reference design for GPON will be available in Q4 2008.

About Xelerated

Xelerated is the global leader in field-proven next-generation ASSP-based Carrier Ethernet chipsets. The Xelerated Dataflow Architecture delivers wirespeed deterministic performance, enabling network equipment vendors to build fully-programmable carrier-class systems that reduce R&D costs, minimize risk and accelerate time-to-market. With its highly flexible network processor platform and linearly scalable products and solutions, Xelerated is an integral part of Tier One carrier networks around the world, and a vital component of any Metro, Access, or High-end Enterprise market.

The company has offices in Santa Clara, Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Beijing. For more information, visit www.xelerated.com.

Fully Integrated Solution Reduces Costs and Increases
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