Agere Systems Ships Production Volumes of Industry's First Enhanced OC-48c Programmable, Multi-Protocol PayloadPlus Network Processors.Business/Technology Editors ALLENTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2001 Agere Systems Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AGR AGR advanced gas-cooled reactor .A), the world leader in communications semiconductors, today announced it is delivering production silicon for its 2.5 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) OC-48c PayloadPlus network processor chip set and software to customers. The company made the announcement at the spring 2001 Networld+InterOp show in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . With more than 50 network equipment providers developing systems based on the PayloadPlus solution, volume shipments are the crowning achievement of an intensive design and development effort to bring to market the industry's fastest, most powerful and flexible multi-protocol, programmable network processor to date. "This is a critical milestone not only for Agere, but for the entire network processor industry," said Ford Tamer, general manager of network processors and switching with Agere Systems. "By shipping production quantities of PayloadPlus, Agere is delivering on the promise of network processors to provide both speed and programmability for routers, switches and network management equipment." The three-chip solution provides network equipment makers powerful, flexible building blocks for construction of routing, switching and network management equipment. They are part of Agere's complete portfolio of end-to-end networking solutions supported by its unique integrated IC/optoelectronic component capability. The enhanced version of PayloadPlus features: - 8x increase in on chip memory to ensure full throughput in even the most complex multi-protocol applications - Fully programmable dynamic scheduling for both ATM and frame-based traffic - Extensive enhancements to runtime scheduling rates and parameters - MIL-spec operating temperature (-40C to +85C) - New lower power specifications - Seamless interconnects to Agere Systems framers - 2.5V memory interfaces and more "With more than a year and a half of customer experience running traffic on, and writing code for our processors, we have refined the product tremendously," said Tamer. "Because our network processors are built using our own very powerful, simple and streamlined high-level programming language A high-level programming language is a programming language that, in comparison to low-level programming languages, may be more abstract, easier to use, or more portable across platforms. , without brute-force, parallel RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. architecture, they are extremely efficient in their use of transistors, power and space. As a result, we shipped prototypes in field-programmable gate array (hardware) field-programmable gate array - (FPGA) A gate array where the logic network can be programmed into the device after its manufacture. An FPGA consists of an array of logic elements, either gates or lookup table RAMs, flip-flops and programmable interconnect wiring. form back in July, 1999 and were the first to hit the street with complete hardware and software support for OC-48c." Pricing for PayloadPlus currently starts at $580 each in quantities of 10,000. About PayloadPlus Agere's PayloadPlus network processor solution provides hardware and software for next-generation, higher-performance Internet infrastructure. The highly programmable, OC-48c network processors can enable datacom and telecom equipment manufacturers to build flexible infrastructure equipment, in turn allowing service providers to introduce new services and billing arrangements in less time. The PayloadPlus architecture was developed by Agere, Inc., the Austin-based network processor startup acquired by Lucent's Microelectronics Group in April, 2000. The PayloadPlus chip set consists of three chips: the Fast Pattern Processor(tm) (FPP FPP Florida Professional Photographers FPP First Past the Post FPP Farmland Protection Program (now Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program) FPP First Person Perspective FPP Floating Point Processor FPP Focal Plane Package ), the Routing Switch See layer 3 switch. Processor( (RSP RSP right sacroposterior (position of the fetus). ) and the Agere System Interface(tm) (ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. ). Agere has also announced a co-processor called the Voice Packet Processor(tm) (VPP VPP Voluntary Protection Program (OSHA) VPP Velocity Prediction Program (to predict sail boat performance) VPP Virtual Presence Protocol VPP Volts Peak to Peak VPP Virtual Presence Post ) for 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. 2 voice termination and sub-channel switching applications. The FPP performs wire-speed recognition, classification and reassembly reassembly - segmentation of incoming packet data, then passes the packets and routing/switching conclusions to the RSP, which performs wire-speed queuing, traffic management, traffic shaping, packet modification and segmentation. The FPP and RSP interface to a system processor via the ASI. Agere's PayloadPlus network processors use Agere's Functional Programming Language (language) functional programming language - A language that supports and encourages functional programming. (tm) (FPL), a high-level programming language designed specifically for communication applications. FPL is intuitive, compact and easy to learn, and can enable the speedy development and deployment of software. More information about the products described herein including online Data sheets, application notes, and notifications can be found at http://www.agere.com. Customers may also call the Agere Systems Customer Response Center at 1-800-372-2447, from the US, Dept. N87 (in Canada 1-800-553-2448); fax number 1-610-712-4106, outside of North America, call 1-610-712-4323; email: docmaster@micro.lucent.com; or write to Agere Systems, Room 30L-15P-BA, 555 Union Boulevard, Allentown, Pa. 18109. Agere Systems Inc., formerly the Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies, is the world leader in semiconductors for communications applications. Lucent has announced it intends to spin off Agere Systems as an independent company. Agere Systems offers integrated optoelectronics and integrated circuits solutions to help customers reduce the time and expense of developing new communications equipment. It also provides wireless computer networking solutions through its ORiNOCO product line. More information about Agere Systems is available from its Web site at http://www.agere.com. This release contains forward-looking statements based on information available to Agere as of the date hereof. Agere's actual results could differ materially from those results stated or implied by such forward-looking statements due to a number of risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, completion of the distribution of Agere stock by Lucent Technologies Inc., price and product competition, keeping pace with technological change, dependence on new product development, reliance on major customers and suppliers, customer demand for our products and services, availability of manufacturing capacity, components and materials, control of costs and expenses, general industry and market conditions and growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. and general domestic and international economic conditions including interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations. For a further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see the prospectus filed by Agere with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2001. Agere disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Networld+InterOp Booth #8223 |
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