PMC-Sierra Introduces Industry's Highest Density Channelized Access Solution To Enable Next Generation Metro Optical Access Equipment.Business Editors/Technology Writers NOTE: A photo and slide show of the TEMUX-84 will be available for journalists to download beginning today at www.newstream.com BURNABY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000 TEMUX-84 provides OC-48 port card scalability for T1, E1, T3 and E3 access services PMC-Sierra (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 ) today announced the PM8316 TEMUX-84, the industry's highest density 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. access solution, ideal for Metro Optical Access, Multiservice Switches and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (networking) label switching - A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. (MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS. (2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. ) Edge Router Also called an "access router," it is a router that sits at the periphery of a network. Contrast with "core router," which is a router that resides in the middle of the network. See router and WAN router. See also edge device. equipment. The TEMUX-84 supports the global requirements for framing, mapping and multiplexing of T1, E1, T3, E3 channels into SONET/SDH services. By reducing board space to one quarter of that required using available competitive solutions, TEMUX-84 allows T1, E1, T3 and E3 access port card design densities to scale to OC-48. The new device joins PMC-Sierra's industry leading portfolio of high density multiservice access solutions which includes the SPECTRA(TM), TEMUX(TM), AAL1gator(TM), MECA MECA Maine College of Art MECA Middle East Children's Alliance MECA Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (Washington, DC) MECA Marriage Equality California MECA Mars Environmental Compatibility Assessment (TM) and FREEDM FREEDM Frame Engine and Data Link Manager (TM) products. The TEMUX-84 provides the next key element to extend PMC-Sierra's access services architecture by enabling next generation equipment to deliver channelized OC-48 line cards. The architecture supports a broad spectrum of existing and emerging services including Frame Relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. (FR), 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. (IP), Dedicated Private Line, ATM, Integrated Voice and Data, Voice-over-IP and Voice-over-ATM. "The TEMUX product family meets the density requirements of our award winning ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. 2000 aggregation service router," said Amar Gupta, co-founder and chief technical officer of Amber Networks. "A seamless interface to other PMC-Sierra products, such as FREEDM, helps the ASR2000 achieve its groundbreaking fault tolerance, port density and low power requirement in a scalable architecture that readily supports a variety of channelized line rates." PMC-Sierra's complete portfolio of high density SONET/SDH line interface solutions including SPECTRA-155, SPECTRA-4x155, SPECTRA-622 and SPECTRA-2488 connect seamlessly with the TEMUX-84. The device supports a Scaleable Bandwidth Interconnect (SBI SBI Special Background Investigation SBI Subsidiary Body for Implementation SBI State Bank of India SBI Secure Border Initiative SBI Small Business Institute SBI Stockholm Brain Institute SBI Serious Bacterial Infection SBI Society of Breast Imaging )(TM) bus to connect to FREEDM packet processors and AAL1gator AAL (ATM Adaption Layer) The part of the ATM protocol that breaks up application packets into 48-byte payloads which become ATM cells when the 5-byte headers are attached. The AAL resides between the higher layer transport protocols and the ATM layer. 1 SAR (Segmentation And Reassembly) The protocol that converts data to cells for transmission over an ATM network. It is the lower part of the ATM Adaption Layer (AAL), which is responsible for the entire operation. See AAL. SAR - segmentation and reassembly products. It also supports an H-MVIP bus to interconnect to the MECA-4A Voice-over-ATM processor or to the MECA-4I Voice-over-IP Processor. TEMUX-84 provides a smooth migration path for the more than 100 existing PM8315 TEMUX designs by providing backwards compatibility for functionality, packaging, power consumption and software. It provides framing and multiplexing for 84 T1 channels or 63 E1 channels into 3 channelized DS-3's or alternatively maps the T1/E1 channels directly into a SONET/SDH aggregate. For higher line rate applications, 4 TEMUX-84's will support a channelized OC-12 data stream, 16 TEMUX-84 devices will support a channelized OC-48 data stream. "Product complexity and time-to-market pressures have changed the high density access semiconductor selection process from a chip level to an architectural solution level decision," said Glenn Bindley, vice president and general manager of PMC-Sierra's Access Product Division. "The TEMUX-84 high density framer/mapper relieves the key density choke point In military strategy, a choke point (or chokepoint) is a geographical feature (such as a valley or defile) which forces an army to go into a narrower formation (greatly decreasing combat power) in order to pass through it. in current designs and enables our customers to deliver channelized OC-48 service interfaces on one line card." Pricing, Availability and Customer Support The PM8316 TEMUX-84 uses low-power 1.8V/3.3V CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. and is packaged in a 23mm by 23mm 324-pin fine pitch PBGA PBGA Plastic Ball Grid Array package. It is priced at $625 in 1KU quantity through distribution with samples available in Q1, 2001. A comprehensive support package including reference designs, software drivers and bus functional models is offered to simplify design and optimize time-to- market. The reference design and software drivers will be featured on PMC-Sierra's web site (http://www.pmc-sierra.com), the bus functional models may be requested from our applications support hotline (apps@pmc-sierra.com). About PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra is accelerating the broadband revolution. PMC-Sierra's extensive family of broadband communication semiconductors enables the equipment that makes up the backbone of the Internet. PMC-Sierra offers worldwide technical and sales support including a network of offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. PMC-Sierra 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 symbol "PMCS". The company is included in the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX NDX Index NDX Index (File Name Extension) NDX Northern Document Exchange NDX Index File ) which contains the largest non-financial companies on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The Nasdaq-100 Index is the benchmark for the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock (Amex:QQQ QQQ The Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock. This is a tracking stock which trades like an index mutual fund which follows the Nasdaq 100 index. It trades continuously. QQQ ). PMC-Sierra develops Internet Protocol (IP), ATM, SONET/SDH, T1/E1, T3/E3, Voice-over-Packet, wireless infrastructure, network microprocessing, and Gigabit Ethernet solutions for wide area network (WAN), and Internet networking equipment. The company's quality system is registered with the Quality Management Institute to the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 standard. As co-founder of the SATURN(R) Development Group, PMC-Sierra works with over 30 other member companies to define and develop interoperable, standard-compliant solutions for high speed networking applications. For more information about PMC-Sierra, visit http://www.pmc-sierra.com. Attachments -- available at www.newstream.com and www.pmc-sierra.com/temux84 Figure 1: TEMUX-84 with SPECTRA-622 results in a 75% reduction in board space as compared to competitive OC-12 offerings. Figure 2: TEMUX-84 joins PMC-Sierra's broad product portfolio of high density multiservice access solutions. Figure 3: TEMUX-84 enables port card designs to scale from 3xDS3 to OC-48. Photo: TEMUX-84
Technical Glossary
AAL1gator(TM) ATM Adaptation Layer 1 SAR Processor
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
CMOS Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
DS Digital Signal
E1, E2, E3 European (world) standards for
2.048 Mbit/s, 8.448 Mbit/s, and
34.368 Mbit/s transmission, respectively
FR Frame Relay
FREEDM(TM) Frame Engine and Data Link Manager
H-MVIP High-Density Multi-Vendor
Integration Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
MECA(TM) Multiprocessor Embedded Communications
Accelerator
Digital Signal processors (DSP)
optimized for Voice-Over-Packet
processing applications
MPLS Multi-Protocol Label Switching
OC Optical Carrier
PBGA Plastic Ball Grid Array
SAR Segmentation And Reassembly
SATURN(R) PMC-Sierra works with over 30 member
Development Group companies to define and develop
interoperable, standard-compliant
solutions for high speed networking
applications
SBI(TM) Scaleable Bandwidth Interconnect
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy --
the European counterpart to SONET
SONET Synchronous Optical NETwork
SPECTRA(TM) SONET/SDH Payload Extractor/Aligner
STM Synchronous Transport Module
T1 North American standard for 1.544
Mbit/s transmission
T3 North American standard for a
TDM digital channel carrier that
operates at 44.736 Mbit/s. It
can multiplex 28 DS-1 signals
and is synonymous with DS-3
TEMUX High Density T1/E1 Framer with
Integrated VT/TU Mapper and M13
Multiplexer
WAN Wide Area Network
(c)Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2000. All rights reserved. SATURN(R)and TEMUX(R)are registered trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. PMC-Sierra(TM), AAL1gator(TM), FREEDM(TM), MECA(TM), SPECTRA(TM)are trademarks of PMC-Sierra, Inc. |
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