Salira, which was recently acquired by Hitachi, has announced a new GE-PON FTTH platform that is compliant with IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile standards. I believe they are the second GE-PON vendor (after the Wave7 Optics Trident7 platform) to be standards compliant. I believe Alloptic, the other US based GE-PON platform vendor has not yet announced IEEE 802.3ah compatibility. Presumably, standards compliance is a strong selling point. Two take-away points from this announcement:

-Hitachi (the owner) becomes the second vendor to have both GPON and GEPON capability, although not in the same platform like Wave7

- On its website Salira states about its EPON platform: The product has since been commercially deployed by numerous customers in Asia, particularly in China which implies that its marketing strategy is focused on Asia-Pacific and that its main competitor is Alloptic (which has also announced AP customers).