AMCC Builds Upon Successful nP3700 Family with Integrated Network Processor and Traffic Manager Devices for Access and Metro Applications.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. -- 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. (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 NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AMCC): --Utilizing AMCC's Proven nP5(TM), Fifth Generation Network Processor Architecture, the nP3740 and nP3750 Enable Customers to Reduce Power, Density and Cost While Offering Greater Design Flexibility and Richer Levels of Hierarchy Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) (NASDAQ:AMCC) today announced the nP3740 and nP3750, the newest members of the nP3700 family of 5Gbps integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. processors and traffic managers. Optimized for packet processing applications within the access and metro transport markets, the nP3740 and nP3750 maintain best-in-class network processing performance, traffic management and software compatibility that system vendors require today. The previously released nP3700 and nP3710 network processors target Multi-Service Switches, Core, Edge Routers, DSLAMs and OC-48 AAL (ATM Adaption Layer) The part of the ATM protocol that breaks up application packets into 48-byte payloads which become ATM cells when the 5-byte headers are attached. The AAL resides between the higher layer transport protocols and the ATM layer. 5 SAR (Segmentation And Reassembly) The protocol that converts data to cells for transmission over an ATM network. It is the lower part of the ATM Adaption Layer (AAL), which is responsible for the entire operation. See AAL. SAR - segmentation and reassembly applications, whereas the new nP3740 and nP3750 devices are designed for applications including Metro Ethernet A metropolitan area network (MAN) that uses a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) backbone rather than SONET/SDH links. Ethernet offers a more economical alternative. In a Metro Ethernet network, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) may be deployed to provide quality of service (QoS). , IP Access Platforms, PON (Passive Optical Network) An optical point-to-multipoint access network. There are no optical repeaters or other active devices in a PON, hence the name "passive. Access, Session border controllers and Voice gateways, offering a more customized focus on the access and transport markets. The devices are pin and software compatible with the previously released nP3700 family of NPU (Network Processing Unit) Same as network processor. solutions and boast the highest performance and lowest power and board area requirements of existing integrated network processing and traffic manager devices. Offering multiple generations of network processors targeting the access and metro transport applications, AMCC further delivers unparalleled power in an integrated hardware traffic manager with the nP3740 and nP3750. "Requirements for the evolving access metro transport market are driving customers to support COS queuing, subscriber separation, flow and queue level traffic shaping Using methods to keep traffic flowing smoothly in a network. Although the term is often used synonymously with "traffic engineering," traffic shaping deals with managing the network moment to moment, whereas traffic engineering refers to the overall strategies employed in a network. into logical ports such as VCAT channels, and physical ports such Gigabit Ethernet or fractional Gigabit Ethernet ports. AMCC's nP3700 traffic manager supports five levels of hierarchy and multiple levels of shaping to meet these evolving requirements," said Daryn Lau, vice president and general manager for AMCC's Communications Group. "By building on the success of our nP3700 solution with the nP3740 and nP3750, we can provide an even broader portfolio of flexible programming environments, high levels of performance and traffic management capabilities that are critical to our customers." The devices were designed from the ground up using AMCC's nP5(TM) technology, enabling developers to deliver extremely fine-grained control of subscriber traffic without impacting the ability to perform complex ATM and packet internetworking at media speeds. The nP3740 and nP3750 also utilize highly optimized hardware co-processors and traffic manager hardware surrounding a fully programmable processor core. A Metro Ethernet software application, C programming environment, integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment and hardware reference design are all available with the nP3740 and nP3750 solutions. Compatible with AMCC's line of terminating framers, the nP3740 and nP3750 are also available in three speed grades and in Commercial and industrial temperature ratings. AMCC at The Linley Group's Access System Design Seminar AMCC will be participating in The Linley Group's Access System Design Seminar, which is taking place on July 21, 2005, from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., at the Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara, CA. AMCC will be speaking in sessions and panels highlighting access-focused NPUs and CPUs. For more information about AMCC's involvement in this event, please visit http://www.amcc.com/Compinfo/tradeshows.htm#Speaking. Availability Each packaged in a 1935 HC-BGA, AMCC's nP3740 and nP3750 will begin sampling in Q3 2005 with volume production commencing in Q1 2006. For additional technical information on the nP3740, visit http://www.amcc.com/BestInClass/nP3740/. For additional technical information on the nP3750, visit http://www.amcc.com/BestInClass/nP3750/. For a photo of the nP3740, visit http://www.amcc.com/BestInClass/nP3740Photo/. For a photo of the nP3750, visit http://www.amcc.com/BestInClass/nP3750Photo/. About AMCC AMCC provides the essential building blocks for the processing, moving and storing of information worldwide. The company blends systems and software expertise with high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon integration to deliver silicon, hardware and software solutions for global wide area networks (WAN), embedded applications such as PowerPC and programmable SOC architectures, storage area networks (SAN), and high-growth storage markets such as Serial ATA (SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. ) RAID. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . 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 markets, growth of markets and products, including the risk that the markets would not grow at the rates forecasted, and the demand for products would not materialize, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company's filings 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. AMCC is a registered trademark of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. NOTE TO EDITORS: In the product name nP5, "5" should appear as a superscript Any letter, digit or symbol that appears above the line. 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