NEC Selects PMC-Sierra's Metro Transport Semiconductor Solutions for SpectralWave Series.PMC-Sierra's CHESS III and CHESS Wideband Device Families Enable 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. to Achieve Faster Time-to-Market with Feature-Rich Next Generation Metro Transport Equipment SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS PMCS PMC Sierra (stock symbol) PMCS Project Management Control System PMCS partial mission-capable, supply (US DoD) PMCS Preventive Maintenance Checks & Services PMCS Professional Military Comptroller School ), a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors, today announced that NEC has selected PMC-Sierra's metro transport semiconductor solutions for incorporation into its world-class SpectralWave[TM] series. PMC-Sierra's CHESS[TM] III and CHESS[TM] Wideband family of solutions enable NEC to deliver a highly integrated, scalable metro transport solution with reduced power, cost and complexity. These benefits improve fiber efficiency, reduce capital and operational costs and provide Service Providers the ability to introduce and more effectively manage both new Ethernet services and existing T1/E1 services over a SONET/SDH infrastructure. NEC's SpectralWave series supports both copper and fiber termination and provides for TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. and Ethernet over Sonet (EoS) services. PMC-Sierra's CHESS III chip set enables integration of high capacity SONET/SDH line cards to support NEC's TDM service offering, while the CHESS Wideband chip set is used to achieve high-capacity VT1.5 grooming in support of both TDM and EoS services. "NEC is committed to maintaining leadership in the 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. Market," said Hiroshi Yamashita, senior manager with NEC's Network Platform Development Division. "After an extensive assessment across the ASSP (Application Specific Standard Part) An ASIC chip that is designed as a generic device for a particular market. Whereas an ASIC is typically used only by its creator, ASSPs are used by many different companies in the design of their products. See ASIC. market, we found that PMC-Sierra's CHESS III and CHESS Wideband technology met all of our key criteria, enabling us to offer our customers a solution that meets their demands. The CHESS portfolio offers highly integrated framers, scalable non-blocking switch fabrics and powerful pointer processors, but PMC-Sierra is distinguished from other vendors by their metro transport platform system engineering expertise, performance innovations in the area of mixed-signal technology and best-in-class customer support." "NEC's SpectralWave product family is enabling new capabilities in the metro core and holds a strong position internationally in the optical transport equipment market," said Dino Bekis, vice president of marketing and applications for PMC-Sierra's Communication Products Division. "We value NEC's relationship and are impressed with their demonstrated ability to deliver a world-class product to their demanding customer base. Our production-proven CHESS III and CHESS Wideband product families allow NEC to deliver a feature-rich converged optical network architecture, supporting a wide range of broadband optical line cards, fine granularity traffic grooming Traffic grooming is the process of grouping many small telecommunications flows into larger units, which can be processed as single entities. For example, in a network using both time-division multiplexing and wavelength-division multiplexing, two flows which are destined for a , and carrier-class reliability." Product Descriptions CHESS III chip set for aggregating, grooming and transporting 2.5Gbit/s and 10Gbit/s metro services CHESS III is the foundation chip set used to build the new generation of metro transport equipment. It offers a wide range of STS-1/AU-3 cross-connect solutions as well as a highly integrated framer solution for MSPPs and ROADMs. The CHESS III chip set consists of the following devices: TSE-Nx160 - 64-port cross-connect device that enables single stage non-blocking cross-connects to scale from 160 Gbit/s to 640 Gbit/s TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). 240 - 96-port cross-connect device that reduces the software complexity of automatic protection switching using Message Assisted Protection Switching (MAPS[TM]) technology TSE 120 - 74-port cross-connect device optimized for lower bandwidth, lower cost applications ARROW-2x192 - highly integrated channelized Refers to an architecture that transmits data in channels. It often refers to the 64 Kbps channels in T1 lines, which were originally developed to handle digitized voice streams (TDM). See TDM. 20 Gbit/s framer that supports 8 ports of OC-48/STM-16 or 2 ports of OC-192/STM-64 ARROW-1x192 - highly integrated channelized 10 Gbit/s framer that supports 4 ports of OC-48/STM-16 or 1 OC-192/STM-64 port CHESS Wideband chip set for VT/TU VT/TU Virtual Tributary/Tributary Unit grooming The CHESS Wideband chip set is a highly integrated VT/TU grooming solution that enables cost-effective in-service upgrades to [acute accent]MSPPs, MSPPs and Optical Cross Connect systems. The CHESS Wideband chip set consists of the following devices: WSE WSE Web Services Enhancements (Microsoft) WSE Warsaw Stock Exchange (Warsaw, Poland) WSE Symposium on Web Site Evolution (IEEE International Symposum) 40 - 18-port wideband cross-connect device that reduces the software complexity of automatic protection switching using MAPS technology WSE 20 - 10-port wideband cross-connect device optimized for lower bandwidth, lower cost applications TUPP TUPP Tobacco Use Prevention Program 9953 - SONET/SDH tributary unit payload processor for 9953 Mbit/s The CHESS family of solutions includes innovative technology such as Message Assisted Protection Switching (MAPS) for hardware-based protection switching and best-in-class TFI-5 high-speed serial backplane technology with PMC-Sierra's Rate Agile Serial 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 (RASIO(TM)). Pricing, Availability, and Customer Support All devices are available now in production quantities. Short form datasheets are available on PMC-Sierra's web site at www.pmc-sierra.com/products. For more information about PMC-Sierra's broad family of metro transport solutions, visit www.pmc-sierra.com/networking. For documentation and pricing, contact a PMC-Sierra sales representative at www.pmc-sierra.com/contactSales/. About PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra(TM) is a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless infrastructure, storage, laser printers and customer premises equipment See CPE. . PMC-Sierra offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a network of offices throughout North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the PMCS symbol and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com. Resources to Extend Your Product Knowledge and Understanding PMC-Sierra Networking Products www.pmc-sierra.com/networking PMC-Sierra New Products www.pmc-sierra.com/products/newProducts.html PMC-Sierra Networking Webinars www.pmc-sierra.com/webinars PMC-Sierra White Papers www.pmc-sierra.com/whitepaper [c] Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2006. All rights reserved. PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. is a registered trademark of PMC-Sierra, Inc. in the United States and other countries. PMC-SIERRA, PMCS, "Thinking You can Build On" CHESS, MAPS and RASIO are trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. SpectralWave[TM] is a trademark of NEC. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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