Scalability gateway solution for homes or small businesses

The portfolio’s common platform approach is now leveraged across a wide range of power and performance points, all while sharing common build environments, APIs and software. Based on the OpenWrt operating system, the platform seamlessly offloads packet processing to a power efficient hardware accelerator, enabling dramatic boosts in throughput and quality of service, while freeing CPU resources for value added applications and services.

Enabling the platform’s scalability is NXP’s portfolio of embedded 64-bit processors based on ARM Cortex technology. Already in production on NXP’s dual-core QorIQ LS1024A device, the Home/SMB platform now includes versions incorporating the tiny, power sipping QorIQ LS1012A processor, the quad-core QorIQ LS1043A device, as well as NXP’s new QorIQ LS1046 SoC featuring dual 10Gb ports, pin-compatibility with the LS1043A, and the performance of four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 cores.

“Broadband operators are looking for a scalable and upgradeable gateway platform which maximises return on investment and lets them focus on value added applications and services,” said Noy Kucuk, Vice President of Product Management for NXP’s Digital Networking Business Unit. “By extending its popular line of Home/Small Business Gateway solutions, NXP has squarely met this demand, delivering a proven software platform backed by a large global software team, and the broadest range of communications processors in the industry.”

Extreme performance at the network’s edge

NXP’s new QorIQ LS1046 device opens the door to new capabilities for the NXP Home/SMB gateway’s high end offering. In addition to delivering 20Gbps bi-directional wireline and 10Gbps WiFi performance, the processor’s four ARM Cortex-A72 cores deliver additional performance headroom to support a range of new gateway applications and use models including:

• Improved network operation. Additional performance at the gateway enables management of peak bandwidth across the network by pushing content to the gateway in advance, eliminating unnecessary costs and latency associated with edge-to-cloud traffic flows.
• Speech enabled home automation and home security services with video analytics, content-based quality of service and parental controls, and smart energy management.
• New services and revenue streams. Optimised performance at the networks’ edge allows service providers to run applications analysing user preferences and content usage patterns, making way for personalised advertising and content offers, ultimately boosting customer satisfaction and retention as well as increasing average revenue per user (ARPU).

Software re-use for IoT gateways and WiFi extenders

The ultra low-power LS1012A device is also suitable for WiFi extenders, battery backed IoT gateways and even fully battery powered applications. Support for the NXP Home/SMB gateway platform on the LS1012A means that customers can leverage a common software architecture across all of their gateway devices in the home, reducing overall development investments and simplifying support and maintenance.