Airoha Technology Corp. announced that it had started to deliver to its customers a Broadband System-on-Chip (SOC) solution powered by RDK-B, an open-source platform that standardizes key functions of customer premise equipment (CPE). As an active member in the RDK community, AIROHA has helped to set and develop Passive Optical Network (PON)-related solutions to enable operators to navigate to an all-fiber environment.

RDK-B allows operators to continue to use their existing equipment and software, built upon the legacy coaxial cable and DOCSIS interface standards, to maximize capital investments, and leverage the quality of work that they already providing to the customers. AIROHA takes the lead in supporting RDK-B PON open platform and helps MSOs transform smoothly and quickly. Although the latest versions of DOCSIS standards include support for PON, the coaxial cable, due to its physical constraints, cannot match the speed of fiber connections.

As 10G-PON technology is reaching maturity and 25G/50G-PON is looming, the cable industry in Europe now is taking a harder look at PON options to traditional technology. The mounting pressure for maintaining competitiveness has driven them to adopt a fiber architecture. AIROHA's support for RDK-B PON solutions is designed to enable operators to expedite the process of cable transformation.

AIROHA is committed to becoming the best long-term partner for its customers and helping its customers improve competitiveness. AIROHA is changing the status quo by working with major players in the industry to adopt its innovative technologies. The CPE devices provided by AIROHA's operator customers will come preinstalled with RDK-B and software customized by AIROHA that will facilitate easy upgrades and allow the cable operators to continue to use their existing management systems and applications on the new chipset platform.

This should drastically reduce the cost of migration and allow operators to manage different OLT (Optical Line Terminal) equipment under the same system architecture while enjoying the benefits brought by fiber. AIROHA has helped several Tier 1 cable operators in Western Europe deploy RDK-B powered chipsets to upgrade to fiber quickly and smoothly. For broadband, RDK software provides common support for routing, Wi-Fi, device management, diagnostics, DNS, and IoT interfaces, such as Bluetooth, Thread and Zigbee.

By standardizing these functions, service providers can develop and deploy applications and services, across various hardware platforms. A key to RDK's growing adoption is that device provisioning, data diagnostics, reporting, and telemetry are consistent across all RDK software profiles, enabling service providers to manage video and broadband in a uniform way. AIROHA, with its technology capability and service breadth, fully understands the pain points that broadband carriers have been facing during their digital transformations and has already provided solutions in the United States and in Western Europe, aimed at setting new benchmarks for fiber migration. Centered on an engineering culture that puts customers first, AIROHA will continue to work closely with broadband operators who share the same forward thinking.