AMCC Announces the Expansion of its SONET/SDH Product Portfolio to Include PDH Channelization, Enabling Higher Density Client Connections for Cost-Conscious OEMs & Service Providers.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 2002 Evros Leapfrogs Existing Technology and Exceeds Density, Power and System Cost Expectations by Providing the Flexible Assignment of OC-12 Down to DS0 Traffic in a Single Chip Industry-leader 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) today announced the expansion of the company's communications IC domain to include the deeply 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. metro and access markets. The introduction of the Evros (S1208) mapper represents a natural extension of AMCC's popular framer and mapper expertise and product portfolio, delivering the significant levels of capital and operational cost savings typical of AMCC's best-in-class solutions. The single-chip Evros is an extremely dense solution to hit the market, representing a multi-generational leap in integration, flexibility, and power and real estate savings over existing five-chip devices. A universal device in the market today, Evros supports channelization chan·nel·ize tr.v. chan·nel·ized, chan·nel·iz·ing, chan·nel·iz·es 1. To make, form, or cut channels in. 2. To direct through a channel. requirements for 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. transport or data termination applications, and industry standard SONET/SDH to PDH PDH - Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy mappings, alarms and diagnostics. "Service providers want better control over how they provision and groom bandwidth at the network edge as they meet growing demand for high speed services. RHK RHK Ratahallintokeskus (Finnish: Finnish Rail Administration) RHK Ryan Hankin Kent (RHK, Inc. marketing consulting firm) RHK Rigshospitalets Kollegium (Copenhagen, Denmark dorm) predicts copper ports at speeds greater than T1 (1.44Mbps) will grow at 30 percent annually to 2005, while fiber at DS-3 and above will grow by 16 percent," said Roy Rubenstein, senior analyst, RHK optical transport semiconductors. "The availability of deeply channelized ICs such as AMCC's, with the ability to groom data from DS-0 levels up to STS-12c, will provide such flexibility for metro-edge add-drop multiplexer Not to be confused with optical add-drop multiplexer. An add-drop multiplexer (ADM) is an important element of optical fiber networks. A multiplexer combines, or multiplexes, several lower-bandwidth streams of data into a single beam of light. platforms." Best-In-Class Features and Benefits -- OEMs and service providers can take advantage of the "One-Board-Does-All" approach -- and consequential real estate, equipment and operational costs -- with the device's flexible allocation of channels, processing any valid combination of OC-12 down to DS1/E1 (with DS0 level visibility) traffic in a single chip. -- Significantly reduces the size, cost and power of new metro transport systems. -- Provides up to 80 percent savings in real estate and power over competing solutions, making it the industry's lowest power mapper for deeply channelized applications. -- High density, standards compliant channelization of SONET/SDH signals to PDH (DS3/E3, DS1/E1/J1) tributaries enables additional client interfaces on Add-Drop Multiplexers (ADM) and Multi-Service Provisioning Platforms (MSPP). -- Local SONET (high- and low-order) grooming allows for the efficient packaging of traffic onto fiber-optic rings. -- Evros will allow for the adding of VT level cross-connect capability to existing SONET cross-connects; high-density wide-band cross-connects can be built to service a large number of customers on multiple rings. -- Evros serves the channelization and termination requirements for data (ATM, Frame Relay, IP/PPP) applications. -- For additional technical information, visit www.amcc.com/BestInClass/Evro s. -- For a photo of Evros, visit www.amcc.com/BestInClass/Evro sPhoto. "The growing need for deeply channelized and dense solutions is becoming more evident to support the demand for client access in the Metro," said Amit Banerjee, director of marketing for AMCC. "The high density integration offered by Evros further demonstrates AMCC's commitment to delivering superior flexibility and cost efficiency for the transport segment of the network, and will play a key role in expanding our portfolio to provide a complete solution for the data termination markets." Evros implements extremely high density and standards compliant channelization of 622Mbps SONET/SDH (an STS-12/STM-4 or quad STS-4/STM-1) optical connections following SONET/SDH (STS-1 to VT/TU VT/TU Virtual Tributary/Tributary Unit ) or PDH (DS3/E3 to DS1/E1/J1). The device supports SONET/SDH overhead processing, mapping of up to 12 DS3/E3 and up to 336 DS1/J1 and 252 E1 tributaries through the VT/TU or M13 paths. Loopbacks and loop-timing is supported on tributaries. Evros has 336 DS1/J1 framers and 252 E1 framers. The device's built-in features support full bandwidth Transmux, VT Pointer Processing, and DS1/E1/J1, DS3/E3 and VT/TU Performance Monitoring. An efficient and easy-to-use system interface, with visibility into each TDM tributary, is used for connecting to system back-plane or other devices. Evros supports North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. , European and Asian standards. Availability Packaged in a 624-pin CBGA CBGA Ceramic Ball Grid Array CBGA Central Banks Gold Agreement CBGA Cascade Boer Goat Association , Evros (S1208) is currently sampling to development partners, with general availability scheduled for Q4 2002. About AMCC AMCC designs, develops, manufactures and markets high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon solutions empowering intelligent wide area networks. AMCC utilizes a combination of digital, mixed-signal and high-frequency analog design expertise coupled with system-level knowledge and multiple silicon process technologies to offer integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for products that enable the transport of voice and data over fiber optic networks. The company's system solution portfolio includes switch fabric, traffic management, network processor, framer/mapper, PHY See physical layer and physical. and PMD (Polarization Mode Dispersion) The type of dispersion that occurs in singlemode fiber due to a lack of perfect symmetry in the fiber and from external pressures on the cable. Light travels over singlemode fiber in two polarization states. devices that address the high-performance needs of the evolving intelligent optical network. AMCC's corporate headquarters and wafer fabrication Wafer Fabrication is a procedure composed of many repeated sequential processes to produce complete electrical or photonic circuits. Examples include production of radio frequency (RF) amplifiers, LEDs, optical computer components, and CPUs for computers. facilities are located in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our Web site at http://www.amcc.com. Forward-Looking Statements The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the products discussed in this press release are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the products would not be successfully or timely developed or manufactured or achieve market acceptance, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth 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, 2002, and in other filings of the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement. Product photos, datasheets and application notes are available upon request. AMCC is a registered trademark of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC) is a fabless semiconductor company designing network and embedded Power Architecture (including a Power Architecture license), optical transport and storage solutions. . |
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