Aricent Joins Fulcrum Microsystems' ControlPoint Developer Alliance.Fulcrum fulcrum: see lever. Customers Gain Access to Leading Software Development and Services Organization to Speed Development of Networking Products CALABASAS, Calif. -- Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., a leading provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. (10GbE) switch chips for use in converged data center fabric, cloud networking, and telecom fabric applications, announced Aricent[TM] as the newest member of the ControlPoint Developer Alliance (CDA (1) (Compact Disc Audio) The compact disc file extension that is seen on the computer in Explorer or some other file manager. CDA files are actually pointers to the locations of the individual tracks on the CD medium. See CD-DA. ) - a community of FocalPoint users and technology providers collaborating to make ControlPoint the best network protocol software available. With the addition of Aricent to the Alliance, Fulcrum customers can get to market quickly with complete 10 Gigabit Ethernet data center networking systems by leveraging the expertise, proven software solutions, and global presence that Aricent offers. The Alliance continues to thrive since its introduction in 2008 with many members now shipping robust and feature-rich products based on Fulcrum's FocalPoint switch silicon and ControlPoint networking software  This article is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article in an . . The Aricent team already has extensive experience with Fulcrum's FocalPoint silicon, making them an important new addition to the Alliance. Aricent brings to FocalPoint customers the experience of developing, integrating, customizing and sustaining software developed either by Aricent, by the customer, or by other third parties. This is complemented by the availability of Aricent's range of products from individual routing / switching control plane components to a complete switching / routing pre-integrated software package. Aricent provides the ability to launch platforms and grow business beyond a company's internal resource constraints; Fulcrum customers, ranging from young start-ups to established market leaders, have accelerated their time to market utilizing Aricent's expertise. "The Fulcrum FocalPoint silicon makes an excellent complement to our software expertise and we are excited to be a member of The ControlPoint Developers Alliance," said C P Murali, Sr. Vice President at Aricent. "The high performance of Fulcrum's FocalPoint lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. Ethernet fabrics combined with the flexibility and experience of our team allows networking equipment providers to deliver differentiated solutions that meet the needs of the most demanding data center, cloud networking, and broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. applications." "Aricent is an immensely valuable addition and we are delighted the CDA community will have the ability to take advantage of Aricent's expertise and resources," said Mike Zeile, President and COO of Fulcrum Microsystems. "Other Alliance members will benefit from the large-scale, full-service software and support organization they bring as well as their ability to take on any and all software and support tasks including development, porting, integration, test, and direct customer support." The Fulcrum ControlPoint Developer Alliance offers a broad and flexible licensing model, members of the Alliance enjoy full access to source code and are able to use ControlPoint software on their hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. , and have rights to develop their own features, or can leverage the work of other Alliance members to gain access to new capabilities. About Aricent Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation capabilities of frog frog, common name for an amphibian of the order Anura. Frogs are found all over the world, except in Antarctica. They require moisture and usually live in quiet freshwater or in the woods. design with unparalleled domain expertise in communications as a strategic supplier to the world's foremost infrastructure, application and service providers. The company's investors include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (commonly referred to as KKR) is a New York City-based private equity firm that focuses primarily on late-stage leveraged buyouts. It was founded in 1976 by Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., and cousins Henry Kravis and George R. & Co., Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. , The Family Office and Flextronics International Ltd. About Fulcrum Microsystems Fulcrum Microsystems Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. that has developed the FocalPoint family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) switch/router chips for next-generation data center fabric designs. FocalPoint devices offer the industry's lowest latency (1) The time between initiating a request in the computer and receiving the answer. Data latency may refer to the time between a query and the results arriving at the screen or the time between initiating a transaction that modifies one or more databases and its completion. combined with the fine-grained flow control and high throughput required for converged data center fabrics. With its ControlPoint networking OS, Fulcrum offers a complete solution along with a worldwide ecosystem of partners from which storage and clustering system designers can drive adoption of 10GE as the fabric of choice for a fully converged data center. More information can be found at www.fulcrummicro.com. Fulcrum Microsystems, Fulcrum, ControlPoint, and FocalPoint are trademarks of Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc. |
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