Industry Leaders Announce ``X2'' Multi-Source Agreement for 10 Gigabit Pluggable Optical Transceivers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002 Based on XENPAK Technology, New MSA (Metropolitan Service Area) An urban area with at least 50,000 people plus surrounding counties. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs (rural service areas) in the U.S. MSAs and RSAs are used to allocate cellular licenses. Defines Smaller Form Factor, Versatile Package That Saves Costs and Board Space Eight leading networking component suppliers, including Agere Systems, Agilent Technologies, JDS Uniphase, Mitsubishi Electric, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , OpNext, Optillion and Tyco Electronics, today announced "X2," a new multi-source agreement (MSA) for smaller form factor 10 Gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) pluggable fiber optic transceivers. Transceivers developed using this new specification will offer a smaller size that reduces board space on line cards for optical networking systems. The X2 specification supports multiple 10 Gb/s applications, providing network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) with one platform that addresses several 10 Gb/s markets. This flexibility to cover a wider range of applications has in previous product generations enabled higher volumes and lower optics costs. While another MSA also specifies a smaller version of the popular XENPAK transceiver, the X2 MSA has stronger industry support and is more compatible with the existing XENPAK MSA specification. The X2 MSA specifies a module that is physically shorter than XENPAK, mounts on the topside of the host PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. and uses the established electrical I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output specification defined by the XENPAK MSA. X2 is initially focused on optical links to 10 kilometers and is targeted at "second generation" 10 Gb/s enterprise, storage and telecom applications that do not require the thermal capacity provided by XENPAK. Optically, the X2 MSA supports 802.3ae 10 Gb Ethernet, ANSI/ITUT OC192/STM-64 SONET/SDH interfaces, ITUT ITUT Irish Trade Union Trust ITUT International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector (usually seen as ITU-T) ITUT Internationales Transferzentrum für Umwelttechnologie G.709, OIF OIF Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (French: International Organization of Francophonie) OIF Office for Intellectual Freedom (American Library Association) OC192 VSR, INCITS/ANSI 10GFC (10 Gigabit Fibre Channel) and others. X2 is ideally suited for Ethernet, Fibre Channel and telecom switches and standard PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). (peripheral component interconnect See PCI. (hardware) Peripheral Component Interconnect - (PCI) A standard for connecting peripherals to a personal computer, designed by Intel and released around Autumn 1993. PCI is supported by most major manufacturers including Apple Computer. ) based server and storage connections, where a "half size" XENPAK optical transceiver is desired. The X2 platform is designed so that the heat sink and front bezel can be easily adapted to the different needs of the key 10 Gb/s markets. X2 can be mounted on the front panel, mid board, or on a conventional PCI card. The X2 MSA offers a more thermally robust solution and provides better electromagnetic shielding than the other "smaller XENPAK" proposals. X2 uses the same Tyco Electronics-designed 70-pin electrical connector as XENPAK, now available from other suppliers, and supports XENPAK's four wire XAUI XAUI 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface XAUI Extended Auxiliary Unit Interface XAUI XSBI Attachment Unit Interface (IEEE 802.3ae) XAUI Ten Gbps Attachment Unit Interface (10 Gigabit attachment unit interface See AUI. (networking) Attachment Unit Interface - (AUI) The part of the IEEE Ethernet standard located between the MAC, and the MAU. The AUI is a transceiver cable that provides a path between a node's Ethernet interface and the MAU. ). X2 also will support the OIF SFI4_P2 and serial electrical interfaces as they emerge. The X2 MSA group will make the details of the specification available to the industry so that other optical transceiver manufacturers can produce compatible products. The companies expect to begin shipping these new 10 Gb/s transceivers in the first half of 2003. About the X2 MSA The X2 MSA welcomes application for membership from both transceiver and network equipment manufacturers. For more information on joining the MSA and status and availability of the specification, visit www.x2msa.org. For further information, customers may contact the following representatives: Agere Systems Mike Peppler peppler@agere.com Agilent Technologies Antony Spilman antony_spilman@agilent.com JDS Uniphase Mike L. Zumbrunnen mike.zumbrunnen@jdsu.com Mitsubishi Electric Junichiro Yamashita junichiro.yamashita@edg.mea.com NEC Tetsuyuki Suzaki tet-suzaki@cj.jp.nec.com OpNext Edward Cornejo ecornejo@opnext.com Optillion Bertil Kronlund bertil.kronlund@optillion.com Tyco Electronics Robert Atkinson rdatkins@tycoelectronics.com |
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