Editing PMC-Sierra (section)

===Communications===
PMC-Sierra offered communication ICs for metro access, metro transport, FTTH/PON, Ethernet over SONET/SDH, Optical Transport Network (OTN) and wireless base transceiver stations (BTS).<ref name="ethernet"/> PMC-Sierra sold products for what is known as [[Ethernet in the first mile]], which generally uses a [[passive optical network]] to residential areas.{{citation needed|date=January 2011}} PMC-Sierra semiconductor devices allowed wireless service providers to deploy wireless [[mobile phone]] network equipment.<ref name="wireless"/> This included [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]]-based network processors for wireless back haul and [[radio frequency]] integrated circuits for wideband radio modules. The company's UniTRX chipsets were highly integrated, low-power RFICs for wideband radio modules that operated in the 400&nbsp;MHz to 4&nbsp;GHz frequency range. These solutions addressed the performance requirements of 3GPP and 3GPP2 macro base station radio transceivers with support of multiple standards such as MC-GSM, cdma2000®, WCDMA, and LTE.

The company's DIGI-G4 chipset was PMC's latest OTN processor, and it enabled the transition to 400G line cards in OTN switched metro networks. It is the industry's densest single-chip 4x100G OTN processor with 50 percent less power per port. In March 2015 the PMC DIGI-G4 OTN processor was awarded a Lightwave Innovation Award <ref name="lightwaveonline.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/innovation-awards/pmc-digi-g4-otn-processor.html|title=PMC DIGI-G4 OTN Processor|author=Lightwave Staff|access-date=18 November 2015|archive-date=19 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119082628/http://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/innovation-awards/pmc-digi-g4-otn-processor.html|url-status=live}}</ref> with the judges citing "...substantial new features, technologies, and capabilities included in the upgrade..."<ref name="lightwaveonline.com"/>