Azanda Network Devices and Solidum Systems Partner to Deliver Advanced Routing and Switching Platforms Through Spectrum Interoperability Program.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2001 Industry Leaders Join Forces In Providing Customers With Fast and Efficient Approach For Developing High Speed Communications Systems In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. Azanda Network Devices, a leader in optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. semiconductors for metropolitan area networks, today announced their interoperability partnership with Solidum Systems Solidum Systems was a fabless semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in 1997. It developed a series of rule-based network classification semiconductor devices. , a leading programmable classification processor company. The Solidum-Azanda interoperability partnership, part of Azanda's Spectrum(TM) Interoperability program, will provide technical guidelines to enable OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and system designers to rapidly and efficiently develop OC-48/OC-48c and OC-192/OC-192c line cards for routers and switches using Azanda's cutting edge OC-192c traffic management chipset A group of chips designed to work as a unit to perform a function. For example, a modem chipset contains all the primary circuits for transmitting and receiving. A PC chipset provides the electronic interfaces between all subsystems (see PC chipset for illustration). and Solidum's innovative programmable classification processor. "Our relationship with Solidum Systems is built-upon both companies' dedication to providing best-of-class products for our customers," said Steve Dines, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Azanda Network Devices. "The Solidum-Azanda relationship exemplifies the advantages to OEMs of using best-of-breed solutions for each element of their communications system designs. This is the goal of the Spectrum Interoperability program: to enable system vendors to build the best possible communications equipment with the lowest time-to-market and significantly reduced design risks." "By combining the best-of-breed packet classification processors from Solidum and the best-of-breed traffic management chipset from Azanda, OEMs can reduce time-to-market development cycles and carriers can extend time-in-market of network platforms," said Richard White Richard White is the name of:
Solidum's family of programmable classification processors is targeted at next generation network architectures designed for line rates up to OC-192c and beyond. These classification processors interface directly to other devices in the datapath to identify and tag packets at wire speed. Each device uses Solidum's proven, patented programmable state machine technology to perform Layer 2 to Layer 7 classification. Azanda's OC-192/OC-192c wire speed traffic management solution can support one OC-192/OC-192c port or multiple slower speed ports. Azanda's traffic management chipset accepts tagged packets from Solidum's classification processor and performs 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. , policing and scheduling while providing multiple levels of Quality of Service (QoS). Azanda's traffic management solution supports both cell- and packet-based switch fabrics, enabling Azanda to work with a wide variety of switch solutions. About Azanda Network Devices Founded in March of 2000, Azanda Network Devices develops and markets communications ICs that perform multi-protocol traffic management, statistics collection and interworking (standard) interworking - Systems or components, possibly from different origins, working together to perform some task. Interworking depends crucially on standards to define the interfaces between the components. functions at 10 Gbps and beyond. Azanda is addressing the needs of leading communications and networking systems vendors in core, edge and metro networks Metro Networks is a broadcasting outsourcing company based in Houston, Texas. It is a subsidiary of Westwood One, which is managed by CBS Radio. The company operates a number of local and regional news and traffic facilities that provide regular reports to affiliates, together with . Azanda Network Devices is privately owned and is headquartered in Sunnyvale. Additional information can be found at http://www.azanda.com, or by contacting the company at 408/720-3100. About Solidum Solidum Systems provides a complete hardware and software solution for programmable classification of converged communications, with true Quality of Service, in subscriber edge and carrier edge network equipment. Based on programmable state machine technology and an openly distributed pattern processing language Solidum's scalable and forward compatible classification processors identify, tag and parse packets at wirespeed. This improves the speed, power, efficiency, and time-in-market of next generation network processing architectures. (www.solidum.com) |
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