Ligent Photonics, a USA corporation, is a global manufacturer of optical communication transceivers, subassemblies and value-added products for the fiber-to-the-home, telecommunications and data communications industries. The company headquarters is located at Naperville, Illinois.
The merger of Ligent Photonics, Hisense Optoelectronics and the broadband products division of the Hisense Electric Company created a new company in 2008: Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technology. The combined business units, collectively known as HBMT employs more than 850 persons. Its' marketing and sales footprint covers Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East.
The Ligent product line encompasses optical communication transceivers for a wide range of applications including E-PON, G-PON, Active Ethernet, SONET, Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet.
The Fibre Channel product line includes optical transceivers for use in systems requiring 1x up to 10x data rates. The Ethernet product line covers applications from 125 Mb/s up to 10.3125 Gb/s. SONET models include the XAUI and FEC data rates up to 3.2 Gb/sec. CWDM models for SONET and Gigabit Ethernet round out the product portfolio.
A key component of bidirectional Active Ethernet, E-PON and G-PON optical transceivers is the optical assembly or BOSA, which is manufactured in-house by Ligent.
Notable achievements attained by Ligent include:
• One of the first optical transceiver companies to produce a commercially viable GPON OLT optical transceiver meeting the ITU-T G.984.2 specifications.
• The first optical transceiver company to produce experimental 10G EPON OLT and ONU transceivers for the IEEE802.3av standard.
• The first optical transceiver company to have its ITU-T G.987.2 10G XG OLT transceivers successfully transport sustained error-free data at 10 Gb/sec over a commercial long-haul PON network.
• One of the first optical transceiver companies to offer 6 Gb/sec bidirectional Fiber Channel transceivers for high speed data and digital video.
• One of the first optical transceiver companies to introduce a complete EPON ONU terminal in a single SFP package.
• One of the largest suppliers of EPON ONU and OLT transceivers in the world.
Ligent embraces the ISO-9000 and ISO-14000 international quality standards for management and manufacturing. Ligent’s products are designed to comply with MSA, IEEE and ITU-T industry standards, customer specifications and regulatory requirements. Our conservative design philosophy and our SPC driven Quality Control processes consistently yield products that exceed customer expectations for performance, safety and reliability.