Entridia Addresses Optical Internetworking Systems Through OC-768c Speeds With OPERA Family of Optical Edge Router ICs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2000 Optimized for Power and Performance, Entridia's Optical Edge Router ICs Address Systems From the Telco Central Office to the Internet Backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. Entridia, a leading provider of dedicated routing silicon for converged Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. networks, today launched the OPERA(TM) (Optical Edge Routing Architecture) family of silicon products targeted at Optical IP line aggregation equipment for metropolitan area and service provider backbone networks. The OPERA family includes a complete set of silicon that incorporates route/flow processing, traffic conditioning functions, and includes Entridia's Lightplane light·plane n. A small, lightweight passenger airplane, often privately owned. (TM) Fast Packet Switch fabric. Future OPERA devices due out this year will address various aggregation points within the network supporting up to OC-192c speeds, with OC-768c solutions available in Q1, 2001. "The line aggregation market will represent $22 billion by 2003," said Raj raj also Raj n. Dominion or rule, especially the British rule over India (1757-1947). [Hindi r Mehta, senior analyst at RHK RHK Ratahallintokeskus (Finnish: Finnish Rail Administration) RHK Ryan Hankin Kent (RHK, Inc. marketing consulting firm) RHK Rigshospitalets Kollegium (Copenhagen, Denmark dorm) . "The key to success in this market is going to be scalability and guaranteed performance; companies that can supply such sophisticated traffic engineering will be well-positioned as we ascend to speeds up to and beyond OC-768c." The OPERA family of chips is comprised of two distinct groups: line-card silicon and backplane An interconnecting device that has sockets for printed circuit boards to plug into. Passive and Active Although resistors may be used, a "passive" backplane adds no processing in the circuit. silicon. Entridia's line-card silicon devices integrate user-configurable route and flow processing, along with sophisticated traffic engineering mechanisms, and allow for line-rate policing. Entridia's patented pre-emptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. multi-field packet analysis enables deep packet examination, line-rate tagging and flow classification that is extensible past OC-768c. The integration of the functions onto a single monolithic device is accomplished via Entridia's low-latency, ultra-fast messaging architecture that guarantees line-rate forwarding of 40-byte packets with no performance tradeoffs. "The objective is to supply all the building blocks to system OEMs to provide a scalable solution for the new IP infrastructure," said Paramesh Gopi, co-founder and vice president of marketing at Entridia. "Our view is that the most scalable architecture will have distributed route/flow processing and traffic engineering at the line-card level, and the backplane will be optimized for scalable transport. We are putting in place these pieces for system OEMs, to enable them to build next-generation IP services with an unprecedented combination of low power, space savings and high performance." The backplane silicon group consists of Entridia's Lightplane Fast Packet Switch devices. These highly integrated silicon switch fabrics interface with Entridia's line-card devices via standard serial backplane interface drivers; both optical and electrical paths allow for non-blocking, scalable switching. "Our line-card solutions have user-configurable Weighted Round Robin, Fair Queuing See traffic engineering methods. and Random Early Detection, giving the system 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 complete control of policing and 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. ," said Gopi. "Our first generation Lightplane device is capable of handling 16-64 OC-48c's at line-rate," continued Gopi. "The advantage of distributed route processing and traffic engineering pays huge dividends from a scalability perspective." The first OPERA solutions on the market will be Aria aria (är`ēə), elaborate and often lengthy solo song with instrumental accompaniment. In the 16th cent. it was a melody improvised over a strophic bass line, and a distinction was made between instrumental, vocal, and dance arias. (TM), ideally suited for small to medium size Remote Access Multiplexers (RAMs) and gateways, and Serenade serenade [Ital. sera=evening], term used to designate several types of musical composition. Opera and song literature yield numerous examples of the serenade sung or played by a lover at night beneath his beloved's window; outstanding is (TM) and Chorus(TM), which incorporate all of the functionality of Aria and are extensible to handle a full Internet route feed of 70,000 routes and 70,000 flows at line-rate via Entridia's Optistream(TM) interface. Future OPERA devices due out this year will address various aggregation points within the network supporting up to OC-192c speeds, with OC-768c solutions available in Q3, 2001. Every device comes with full software support via Entridia's ENTROS(TM) Service API, combined with the company's ENTROS device driver to allow for ease of system integration; this also offers the system OEM a clean, simple solution that abstracts the fundamental functions of Route/Flow table management, policy specification and statistical data gathering to a simple set of C-based function calls. About Entridia Entridia Corp. develops high performance routing (networking) High Performance Routing - (HPR) Routing designed to work in conjunction with APPN Intermediate Session Routing (ISR) network nodes. HPR nodes perform many of the same functions as ISR nodes. solutions for converged optical internetworking. The company leverages its core competencies in networking silicon and systems, including digital and mixed-signal design, routing protocols and applications software to create highly integrated Internet Protocol Edge Routing silicon. Entridia Corp. is privately owned and is headquartered in Irvine, Calif.; additional information can be found at http://www.entridia.com, or by contacting the company at 949/823-3600. Entridia, OPERA, Aria, Serenade, Chorus, Optistream, and ENTROS are trademarks of Entridia Corp. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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