Conexant Opens Optical Networking Design Center in Vancouver, Canada.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2000 Conexant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT) Monday announced the opening of its newest design center, located in Vancouver, Canada. The new 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. design center will focus on Synchronous Optical Network (networking) Synchronous Optical NETwork - (SONET) A broadband networking standard based on point-to-point optical fibre networks. SONET will provide a high-bandwidth "pipe" to support ATM-based services. (SONET)/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ) system solutions for wide-area networks Wide-area networks Communication networks that are regional, nationwide, or worldwide in geographic area, with a minimum distance typical of that between major metropolitan areas. Smaller networks include metropolitan and local-area networks. (WAN), metropolitan-area networks (MAN) and dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing ) networks. The 20,000-square-foot facility will be used to expand Conexant's OptiPHY and broadband access multiplexer (BAM Bam (bäm), town (1996 pop. 70,100), Kerman prov., SE Iran, on the intermittent Bam River. Located on the western edge of the Dasht-e Lut, Bam is a trade center in a henna-growing region. Dates and other fruits are also grown; camels are raised. ) product lines. These products are used by high-speed optical network equipment manufacturers to combine low-speed circuits into higher speed circuits so that significantly higher volumes of traffic can be processed by equipment using the SONET/SDH optical network transmission standards. The facilities will be occupied by engineers and technicians with expertise in very-large-scale integration (VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. ) digital design for optical networking integrated circuits. "Conexant's SONET/SDH design team, in cooperation with our existing capabilities, teams and recent acquisitions, will further expand our position as a leading supplier of one of the industry's most comprehensive family of fiber-optic networking devices," said Raouf Halim, senior vice president and general manager of Conexant's Network Access Division. "The Vancouver area has become a center of excellence for communications semiconductor design activity, and establishing an operation here will allow us to offer engineers in the area an opportunity to join a winning team." About Conexant Systems, Inc. With revenues of approximately $2 billion per year, Conexant is the world's largest independent company focused exclusively on providing semiconductor solutions for communications electronics. With more than 30 years of experience in developing communications technology, the company draws upon its expertise in mixed-signal processing to deliver integrated systems and semiconductor products for a broad range of communications applications. These products facilitate communications worldwide through wireline voice and data communications networks, cordless and cellular wireless telephony systems, personal imaging devices and equipment, and emerging cable and wireless broadband communications networks. The company aligns its business into five product platforms: Network Access, Wireless Communications, Digital Infotainment, Personal Imaging, and Personal Computing. Conexant is a member of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 Indices. For more information, visit Conexant at www.conexant.com. |
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