Broadcom Announces Widespread Support for Its DOCSIS®-based EoC for EPON Solution

HANGZHOU, China, Oct. 27, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ICTC 2010 -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced widespread support for its DOCSIS®-based Ethernet over Coax (EoC) for Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) architectures from leading companies including Changhong, Coship, Harmonic, Jiuzhou, Skyworth, Sumavision and ZTE.  This industry support from the top manufacturers and service providers in China demonstrates the momentum toward standardized quality of service (QoS) to ensure a high-quality TV, broadband and telephone experience and to advance China's drive toward network convergence.  These top companies plan to launch DOCSIS-based EoC for EPON solutions that are enabled by Broadcom® and specifically meet the low cost infrastructure requirements for deploying triple-play services to multi-dwelling units (MDUs) in China.  

Broadcom is demonstrating industry-leading DOCSIS-based 2.0 and 3.0 cable modem, coax media converter (CMC), EPON and set-top box (STB) technologies at this week's International Coverage and Transmission (ICTC) Conference in Beijing, Booth #203.

Highlights/ Key Facts:  

• China's Three Networks Convergence project is enabling telecom, broadcasting and Internet providers to offer triple-play services, spurring a major increase in the nation's digital cable subscribers, according to iSuppli.  
• The widespread support for Broadcom's cable infrastructure technology provides further evidence to the market's need to deploy a high-quality, standardized and interoperable solution that will drive the convergence of telecommunications, Internet and cable television networks in China, according to BDA.  
• Broadcom's DOCSIS-based EoC for EPON portfolio is a complete chipset and software solution that includes CMC, DOCSIS 2.0 and 3.0 cable modem and STB system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions.  

Supporting Quotes:

Nimrod Ben–Natan, Vice President of Products, Solutions and Strategy, Harmonic Inc.

"Harmonic is a leading global provider of video infrastructure, cable edge and access solutions, with a strong and growing presence in China. Broadcom's proven, standards-based DOCSIS technology and cost-effective, innovative solutions for the Chinese EoC market are key enablers for converged video services delivered to any device."

Mr. Xu Ming, Vice President & General Manager of Fixed Network Group, ZTE

"By leveraging existing EPON standards with the DOCSIS specification for high-quality video distribution, Broadcom's complete EoC for EPON chipset and software solutions provide a cost-effective way to transition China's infrastructure to enable network convergence."  

Dan Marotta, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group

"The widespread support from leading manufacturers and service providers is a testament to our DOCSIS-based EoC for EPON solution that ensures a high-quality voice, video and data experience in China.  We look forward to working with Changhong, Coship, Harmonic, Jiuzhou, Skyworth, Sumavision and ZTE and others to accelerate China's network convergence."

Subscribe to RSS Feed: Broadband Communications Group

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications.  Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment.  We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices.  These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.

Broadcom, one of the world's largest fabless communications semiconductor companies, with 2009 revenue of $4.49 billion, holds more than 4,500 U.S. and 1,900 foreign patents, and has more than 7,800 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video, data and multimedia.

A FORTUNE 500® company, Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe.  Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5000 or at www.broadcom.com.

Cautions regarding Forward Looking Statements:

All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release, other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry and business, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change.  Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will," "should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," "ongoing," similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words.  Examples of such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, our future collaboration with the companies listed herein and such companies' plans to launch products with Broadcom DOCSIS-based EoC for EPON solutions in China. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in connection with DOCSIS-based EoC for EPON solutions for China include, but are not limited to:

• our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new markets;
• competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification, availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products;
• the rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and products in the markets for next generation DOCSIS-based EoC for EPON applications; and
• the gain or loss of a key customer, design win or order.

Additional factors that may cause Broadcom's actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the list that can be found at http://www.broadcom.com/press/additional_risk_factors/Q42010.php.

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.  The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of this date. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement, except as required by law.

Broadcom®, the pulse logo, Connecting everything®, and the Connecting everything logo are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU.  Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

DOCSIS is a trademark of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

SOURCE Broadcom Corporation; BRCM Broadband