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BroadLight, a supplier of Smart Fiber Access Processors, has signed a distribution agreement with Braemac, who will be representing BroadLight in Australia and New Zealand.

The local governments in both Australia and New Zealand have recently passed legislation that has made these two countries the fastest growing regions in the world for fiber access deployment.

This legislation and modernization push includes a target to cover 90 percent of Australia with fiber access, thereby replacing the existing limited copper infrastructure.

Officials with BroadLight said that the company will be working together with Braemac to distribute fiber access processors to the region, providing the smart chip required to power communication equipment, thus enabling the high quality of experience for triple-play services that subscribers’ demand.

TMCnet in February reported that Entropic Communications, Inc., a provider of silicon and software solutions for connected home entertainment, and BroadLight, a supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, have joined forces to deliver home networking products for service provider markets.

Entropic (News - Alert) officials said that leveraging its leadership with “Multimedia over Coax Alliance” technology with BroadLight’s expertise in GPON and Network Processor (News - Alert) technology, the two parties are aligning silicon and software solution roadmaps to develop and deliver optimized MoCA-enabled optical network terminals that will be capable of delivering next-generation performance requirements.

Company officials said that by synchronizing shared vision for powerful, ubiquitous connected home entertainment, these two companies are leading the way to bring to market cost-effective, reliable solutions that will fully leverage the advantages of next-generation MoCA connectivity.

In addition, service operators can enable architectures and features such as ever higher levels of broadband access, all IP video gateways, remote user interfaces and 3D HDTV programming, by providing abundant bandwidth to and around the home.

The company officials said that consumers can benefit from MoCA technology to retrieve and share broadcast and personal content such as video, photos, music and experience the ultimate in online gaming using the existing coax cable infrastructure within the home.