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Bangalore , Feb. 25

IKANOS Communications, which has successfully deployed its fibre fast chipset device in Japan, Korea and Belgium for broadband services, is assessing the Indian market's potential. Its fibre fast Fx100100 is a programmable silicon solution to provide speeds up to 100Mbps in both the upstream and downstream over a carrier's existing telephone lines.

Addressing a press conference here, Mr Anoop Khurana, Vice-President (Engineering), said Ikanos was keen to tap the potential for its product by entering into tie-ups with telecom service providers.

He said the prohibitive cost of deploying fibre in the last mile to connect users had prevented carriers from bringing fibre-based broadband service directly to all but a few users. Ordinary copper wire lines, which continue to service the majority homes and businesses, had its limitation of speed for broadband services.

Ikano's technology enables chipsets to automatically adapt to exiting copper wire lines for predictable bandwidth performance.

Ikanos' chipsets deliver aggregate speeds from 64kpbs to 2,000 Mbps, with scalability in increments of 64kbps and enable service providers to develop products that met their customers' needs.

With its programmable architecture and flexibility, Fx 100100 chipsets have driven the down the cost of telecom service providers resulting in multiple dwelling units in Japan, getting broadband services at one tenth of the cost paid about three years ago.

Mr Khurana said Ikanos, which has a research and development centre in Bangalore plans to expand its strength from 35 to 80 professionals to be able to support its global operations.

India centre is headed by Mr Ravi Shankar, Managing Director, and it will focus on hardware and software design and development for its chipsets.

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