AMCC'S Indus IC Provides Industry's First 10 Gbps Sts-192/Stm-64 Framer.Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000 Indus Combined with AMCC's S3091/S3092 Mux/Demux Devices Provides a Complete OC-192 SONET/SDH DWDM/TDM Aggregation and Add-Drop Mux Solution Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) ) (Nasdaq:AMCC), the leader in high-bandwidth silicon for the world's optical networks, today announced the availability of Indus (S19201), the industry's first highly integrated STS-192/STM-64 framer device that supports channelized Refers to an architecture that transmits data in channels. It often refers to the 64 Kbps channels in T1 lines, which were originally developed to handle digitized voice streams (TDM). See TDM. OC-192 SONET and SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy traffic. The Indus, when used in conjunction with the recently announced S3091/S3092 mux/demux devices, provides the first complete OC-192 SONET/SDH Framer/Phy chipset solution for SONET/SDH and Optical Networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. applications. Ideal for high-bandwidth DWDM/TDM aggregation and ADM See add/drop multiplexer. (language) ADM - A picture query language, extension of Sequel2. ["An Image-Oriented Database System", Y. Takao et al, in Database Techniques for Pictorial Applications, A. Blaser ed, pp. 527-538]. applications, the Indus aggregates up to four STS-48/STM-16 parallel line interfaces into one STS-192/STM-64 16-bit, 622 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Line Interface. The Indus also supports redundancy and traffic grooming Traffic grooming is the process of grouping many small telecommunications flows into larger units, which can be processed as single entities. For example, in a network using both time-division multiplexing and wavelength-division multiplexing, two flows which are destined for a applications, via two on-chip STS-1 level Time Slot Continuously repeating interval of time or a time period in which two devices are able to interconnect. Interchange switches (TSIs). The Indus's STS-1 TSIs enable Optical Networking equipment vendors to develop OC-192 cross-connects and switch fabrics with STS-1 level granularity. The Indus can also take existing OC-48 equipment vendors to OC-192 rates with minimal additional hardware. "With the availability of the Indus/S3091/S3092 chipset, SONET/DWDM equipment vendors now have easy access to a complete tool-box of off-the-shelf, snap-together, OC-192/OC-48/OC-12/OC-3 Framer/Phy products," said Mark Donovan, AMCC's Indus product marketing manager. "AMCC's total SONET/SDH Framer/Phy solution set enables designers to quickly develop next-generation Optical Networking equipment, while at the same time reducing power and board space." "Indus is the first device to provide SONET/SDH framing and overhead processing at OC-192 speeds," said John LoMedico, director of marketing and applications at AMCC/Andover. "The product's ability to seamlessly work with AMCC's OC-48 framer/mapper/pointer processor devices, and to provide for the aggregation of STS-3, STS-12 and STS-48 traffic into an OC-192 signal enables AMCC to support even the most demanding of DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing and ADM bandwidth applications." Indus is the latest addition to the SONET/SDH framer family of products, which includes Congo, Nile, Amazon and Missouri. Developed by the former Cimaron Communications of Andover, Mass. that was acquired by AMCC last year, Indus is designed to work with AMCC's family of OC-192 and OC-48 PHY See physical layer and physical. and framer devices. When used in conjunction with other AMCC framer/mapper/pointer processor devices, the Indus provides for the payload mapping and aggregation of up to 64 STS-3/STM-1 payloads and/or pointer processing of 192 STS-1 tributaries. Indus also provides the ability to transport a 10Gbps signal on four low cost 2.5 Gbps optics, thereby enabling the use of existing OC-48 infrastructures and providing significant cost savings to OC-192 system providers. "This solution enables customers to develop systems that flexibly span the boundary between traditional standards-based time division multiplexing (communications) time division multiplexing - (TDM) A type of multiplexing where two or more channels of information are transmitted over the same link by allocating a different time interval ("slot" or "slice") for the transmission of each channel. I.e. (TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. ) applications and the evolving DWDM infrastructure," continued LoMedico. "It also supports various performance monitoring functions and automatic protection switching (APS) implementations at OC-192 speeds for DWDM transport equipment." Pricing and Availability The Indus (S19201) is priced at $635 in quantities of 1000 and packaged in an 824-pin CCGA CCGA Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary CCGA Ceramic Column Grid Array (SolderQuik) CCGA Chicago Council on Global Affairs CCGA Canadian Canola Growers Association CCGA Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs . The solution is sampling now to development partners, with production release scheduled for Q2 of 2000. About AMCC AMCC designs, develops, manufactures and markets high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon solutions for the world's optical networks. The company utilizes a combination of high-frequency, mixed-signal design expertise and multiple silicon process technologies to offer IC products for the telecommunications market that address the SONET/SDH and ATM transmission standards and for the data communications markets that address the Gigabit Ethernet, ATM and Fibre Channel transmission standards. AMCC's core technologies also address ATE and high-speed computing needs. AMCC's corporate headquarters and wafer fabrication facilities are located in San Diego. Sales and consulting engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC and its products, write: Marketing Communication Department, AMCC, 6290 Sequence Drive, San Diego, CA 92121-4358; or call 800/755-AMCC (800/755-2622) or 858/450-9333; or fax 858/450-9885; or email nwpr@amcc.com; or visit our Web site at http://www.amcc.com. Forward Looking Statements Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, "The Factors That May Affect Future Results" detailed in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended March 31, 1999, and the company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results could differ materially, as a result of such factors, from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. Product photos, datasheets and application notes are available upon request. AMCC is a registered trademark of Applied Micro Circuits Corp. |
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