KeyEye Communications Supports 10GBASE-T Standards Direction.SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- KeyEye Communications, Inc., a leader in 10 gigabit-per-second (10 Gbps) copper-media Ethernet transceivers, has announced its support for the direction-setting votes taken last week at the meeting of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.3an Task Force, which is developing the industry standard (10GBASE-T) for 10 Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. over twisted-pair copper cabling. The Task Force made significant progress in its work on the 10GBASE-T standard, selecting several requirements for standards-compliant communications. One of the Task Force's requirements specified the use of a forward error correction A communications technique that can correct bad data on the receiving end. Before transmission, the data are processed through an algorithm that adds extra bits for error correction. If the transmitted message is received in error, the correction bits are used to repair it. technique known as low-density parity check (LDPC LDPC Low-Density Parity Check ), rather than a competing scheme that relied on trellis 1. Trellis - An object-oriented language from the University of Karlsruhe(?) with static type-checking and encapsulation. 2. Trellis - An object-oriented application development system from DEC, based on the Trellis language. (Formerly named Owl). coding. Another requirement specified was the use of Tomlinson-Harashima precoding. "I was pleased both to be able to offer my extensive scientific findings regarding LDPC to the IEEE standards Task Force and with their subsequent selection of this technique to optimize communication performance in 10 Gbps links," said Dr. Shu Lin, professor at the University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. . "KeyEye has been a staunch advocate of the IEEE standards-setting process, and we are pleased that the process has again yielded the best-possible technical solution to the challenge being addressed," said Harvey Scull, 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 KeyEye Communications. "KeyEye has been developing technology for the past two years and soon plans to deliver an entire family of low-cost 10 Gbps copper transceivers, including 10GBASE-T compliant products." The 802.3an Task Force was officially created with the approval of the 802.3 Working Group in November of 2003. KeyEye has been an active contributor to the Task Force. The final 10GBASE-T standard is expected to be approved by the IEEE in the summer of 2006. About KeyEye Communications KeyEye Communications is 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. that designs, develops, and markets high-performance multi-gigabit transceivers for interconnections between and within networking, computing, and storage equipment. KeyEye's family of single-chip 10 Gbps transceivers, based on the company's groundbreaking EchoWave technology, enables the lowest-cost communication solutions using existing cable over typical data center distances. Founded in 2001 and based in Sacramento, California, KeyEye is privately held and venture-funded by American River Ventures, Blueprint Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Technology Funding. KeyEye and EchoWave are trademarks of KeyEye Communications, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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