Korea's LG Powercom selects FTTx solutions from Ubiquoss

December 1, 2008 - Korean telco LG Powercom has selected fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) and fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) solutions from Korean firm Ubiquoss, based on chipsets from US firm Teknovus, for "major" deployment throughout Korea.

Teknovus is the sole supplier of Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) chips and embedded software to Ubiquoss for the FTTx optical networking equipment, and is providing its 2.5G Turbo-EPON chips for the LG Powercom deployment. Ubiquoss also counts Korea Telecom as another local telco customer, as well as Versatel in Europe.

“Ubiquoss’ FTTx solutions are enabling LG Powercom to provide high-speed data, quality voice, and a wide range of advanced video services for residential and business subscribers in single-units and multi-tenant units,” said Subong Lee, CTO of Ubiquoss’ R&D Center. “Teknovus’ EPON chips guarantee QoS (Quality of Service) per service type per subscriber with the highest subscriber split ratios possible, along with the lowest power consumption available – these are all crucial parameters for winning FTTx deployments.”

LG Dacom, of which LG Powercom is a subsidiary, has reportedly set itself a target of 300,000 IPTV subscribers for the end of this year.