Allied Data Technologies Selects Broadlight As The Preferred Technology Supplier For Its GPON Broadband Portfolio

April 17, 2009 – Santa Clara, CA and Spijkenisse, The Netherlands – BroadLight, the leading supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, and Allied Data Technologies recently announced that Allied Data Technologies. has selected its BL2348 Residential Gateway (RG) SoC for a new program of high-performance CPE devices.

The new GPON program is Allied Data Technologies entry in the Fiber to the Home and Fiber to the Business market.

“We are very pleased with our new engagement with Allied Data as we see GPON deployments spread over Europe,” said Didi Ivancovsky, Founder and VP Marketing of BroadLight. ” We have very high confidence that Allied Data will maximize their expertise in CPE design to expand their business in the growing GPON technology”.

“Expanding our business into the fiber access arena is one of our strategic focus areas, said Jeroen van Eersel, MD of Allied Data Technologies. “It will increase our market potential and offers great chances for us to prove and sell our value added partnership to our customers.”

“The Broadlight BL2348 and BL2345, gives us the right platform and fits our technology philosophy where we are continuously striving between cost optimization, flexibility and performance”, said Niels Everstijn, VP Technology of Allied Data Technologies. “This new platform will be a good GPON foundation for our ADIOS Framework”.