EZchip Technologies and Dune Networks offer best in class silicon solutions.EZchip Technologies (a subsidiary of LanOptics Ltd., NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :LNOP), 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. providing high-speed network processors, and Dune dune, mound or ridge of wind-blown sand formed in arid regions and along coasts. Dunes are common in most of the great deserts of the world. Often a dune begins to form because material is deposited by the wind as it encounters a bush, a rock, or other obstacle to Networks Inc., a provider of switching fabric and traffic management solutions, has announced a complementary product offering that provides the silicon core of next generation switches and routers. EZchip's NP-2 network processor coupled with Dune's SAND chip-set for traffic management and switching fabric provide the most feature-rich and cost effective chip-set for implementing line-cards and switch blades. The two companies will be offering silicon that has been tested and proven for seamless interoperability as well as a joint Advanced Telecommunication Compute Architecture (ATCA See AdvancedTCA. ) reference platform. The joint ATCA solution will be available in Q1, 2005. EZchip's network processors coupled with Dune's traffic manager and switch fabric provide all the key silicon capabilities required to build switch/router systems with unmatched processing and quality-of-service (QoS). Furthermore, since the respective devices are highly integrated, the resulting system features minimal component count and cost. A typical line card will employ a single NP-2 network processor and SAND-FAP10V traffic manager/ fabric interface device. The two devices are interconnected via an industry-standard SPI (1) (Stateful Packet Inspection) See stateful inspection. (2) (Service Provider Interface) The programming interface for developing Windows drivers under WOSA. 4.2 interface. Cost sensitive Ethernet applications utilize a lower cost model of NP-2, the NP-2/ 10L, which excludes NP-2's integrated traffic manager, instead using the FAP (language) FAP - The assembly language for Sperry-Rand 1103 and 1103A. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. 10V traffic manager to provide end-to-end rate and QoS guarantees. Multi-port SONET/SDH applications take advantage of the traffic management function integrated in both the FAP10V and NP-2 to provide QoS and system-wide end-to-end QoS for up to 192 ports. "The combination of the Dune and EZchip offerings provides customers with a winning solution comprised of the best in class networking silicon," said Eli Fruchter, 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 EZchip. "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 vendors get the flexibility to use the same hardware and software design to target a variety of applications and price points. A line card with a single NP-2 from EZchip and single FAP10V from Dune provides solutions for 5-Gigabit, 10-Gigabit and 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. 10-Gigabit throughputs at varying degrees of service levels through different assembly options of pin and software compatible NP-2 models." "Additional scalability is offered by the FAP10/20V via its mesh configurations," noted Dune Networks' CEO Eyal Dagan. "Using the NP-2 and FAP10/20V in such a configuration, thus avoiding the need for fabric devices, provides a highly integrated, fully non-blocking and lowest power solution up to 60Gbps, especially important for transport applications." Both companies will provide customers with a seamlessly interconnected reference platform based on the ATCA standard. Leveraging this platform, equipment manufacturers can configure a network switch or router reference platform to conduct thorough development, integration and testing before building their products. An application note detailing the joint solution options and reference platform is available. Dune Networks is a provider of intelligent and scalable switching fabrics and traffic management devices for Internet and storage networks. Founded in October 2000 by a team with extensive networking system level experience, as well as in-depth expertise in communication theory and silicon design, Dune Networks is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , and has an R&D center in Yakum Industrial Park, Israel. The company successfully completed a $24M first round of funding in 2002. |
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