Chip vendor Ikanos Communications today unveiled a VDSL2 residential gateway reference platform using the network processor it acquired from Analog Devices (ADI) in January.

The new gateway combines ADI’s Fusiv processors with Ikanos’ Fx100100S-5 chip set (unveiled in July) to deliver 100 Mb/s symmetrical throughput. It supports VDSL2, ADSL2+, voice-over-IP (VoIP), wireless local area networking, Ethernet switching, data routing, and firewalls. And it is interoperable with ADSL2+, ADSL2, ADSL and VDSL1 technologies.

Ikanos purchased ADI’s Fusiv processor business--along with its Layer 1 ADSL and ADSL2+ products--for $30 million in cash. At the time, Ikanos chairman and CEO Rajesh Vashist said the buy was intended to extend Ikanos’ technology from layer one to layers two through seven.

The company expects the new gateway to find particular traction in Europe, where carriers are especially eager to deploy VDSL.

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