Ample Communications Sampling Industry's First 2-Port 10GE MAC With Integrated XFI; New MAC Incorporated Onto Evaluation and Software Development Platform for Rapid Prototyping.FREMONT, Calif. -- Ample Communications, a leading provider of communications silicon for wire line network systems, today announced that its new device, Redhawk, is now sampling to customers. Redhawk is the industry's first two-port 10Gbps Ethernet intelligent MAC with embedded XFI SerDes, and multiprotocol congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. management technology. Ample has incorporated the Redhawk onto an evaluation platform that provides customers with a dual-port card that can be used either as a full rate, one or two port 10 Gbps Ethernet system, or as a dual-port oversubscribed Refers to connecting more users to a system than can be fully supported if all of them were using it at the same time. Networks and servers are almost always designed with some amount of oversubscription, counting on the fact that everybody does not need the service simultaneously. system with statistical multiplexing. Two Redhawks can also be cascaded with this evaluation platform to demonstrate a four-port oversubscribed 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution. The Redhawk evaluation platform allows customers to evaluate network side XFP XFP 10 Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable Module XFP Extra-Fine-Pitch XFP Ten Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable , XENPAK and X2 optics as well as XAUI XAUI 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface XAUI Extended Auxiliary Unit Interface XAUI XSBI Attachment Unit Interface (IEEE 802.3ae) XAUI Ten Gbps Attachment Unit Interface and SPI-4.2 system side interfaces. "Now that Ample is sampling Redhawk, customers are able to leverage Redhawk's multiprotocol congestion management in networks so no high priority packets are lost, even in a congested con·gest·ed adj. Affected with or characterized by congestion. congested ENT adjective Referring to a boggy blood-filled tissue. See Nasal congestion. network," said Marek Tlalka, vice president of sales and marketing for Ample Communications. "Redhawk offers the highest level of integration allowing system suppliers to dramatically reduce power, space and system cost." The Redhawk 10 Gigabit Ethernet evaluation platform offers system-side footprint compatibility with Ample's existing SPI-4.2 based network interface cards, thus providing customers with flexibility to easily develop a system for multi-rate Ethernet applications just by changing the interface card. The cards use a standard PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). or a USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. interface for control. With USB connectivity, the Redhawk evaluation platform can be used in a standalone evaluation mode and is an excellent solution for interoperability testing and rapid prototyping platform development. About Ample Communications Ample Communications is a leading supplier of high-speed Ethernet and SONET silicon for enterprise and metropolitan area network equipment OEMs. Wide customer acceptance at Tier 1 and Tier 2 OEMs has resulted in more than 50 design wins for its 10 Megabit- to 40 Gigabit-per-second SONET and Ethernet silicon. In October 2005, Ample Communications' Redhawk was recognized above all others with the Rising Star award at the Network Systems Design Conference. www.amplecomm.com. |
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