Solidum And Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. Introduce Advanced Classification Card.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 SOLIDUM Development of PAX.ware 1101 extends strategic alliance; delivers flexibility and higher throughput for Vitesse customers Solidum Systems Solidum Systems was a fabless semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in 1997. It developed a series of rule-based network classification semiconductor devices. Corp., 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. and the leader in wirespeed packet processing, today announced that it is showcasing the PAX.ware 1101 daughter card, which interfaces the PAX.port 1100 multi-gigabit classifier 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. with the latest Vitesse Semi conductor Corp. IQ2000 NPU (Network Processing Unit) Same as network processor. evaluation system. The daughter card represents the first of several joint solutions between Solidum and its strategic partners that highlight the flexibility and scalability of its classification products. The development of the PAX.ware 1101 co-processor card for the Vitesse evaluation platform provides their customers an easy method to integrate advanced classification capability to their target designs and expands upon the strategic alliance between Solidum and Vitesse, announced in May. The two companies will continue to develop common application platforms for deep classification to OC192 rates and beyond. "Vitesse and Solidum provide our mutual customers with a very flexible advanced classification system architecture that dramatically speeds time to market and effectively utilizes both software and hardware engineering resources," said Cindy Lindsay, Director of Business Alliances at Vitesse's Advanced Networking Products Division. "The 1101 daughter card is a clear indication of our growing relationship with Vitesse," said Charlie Jenkins Charles ("Charlie") Lamont Jenkins (born January 7, 1934) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Born in New York, Charles Jenkins was an outstanding member of Villanova's track teams between 1955 and 1957. , Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Solidum. "This development reinforces our commitment with our partners to provide customers solutions that accelerate their time to market while providing the application flexibility and increased processing bandwidth they need." The PAX.port 1100 classifier, in conjunction with a Vitesse IQ2000 NPU, provides a high performance system solution for complex network processing applications. The PAX.port 1100, used as a co-processor or as a pre-processor with the Vitesse IQ2000 NPUs, improves processing bandwidth up to 3.2 Gbps. The PAX.ware 1101 offloads the processing-intensive classification function to increase the Vitesse IQ2000 NPU throughput up to 90 per cent. The Vitesse IQ2000 forwards packets to the PAX.ware 1101 to be classified over an outbound FOCUS32 bus. The PAX.port 1101 attaches the classification results and sends the packet back to the IQ2000 for completion of forwarding and modification operation. About Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation is a world leader in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of high bandwidth communications ICs for next generation DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing and 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. . The company's products address the product needs of Core, Access and Enterprise network equipment manufacturers who demand a combination of high speed, high complexity and low power dissipation. As a co-founder of the CSIX (Common Switch Interface) forum and a member of CPIX CPIX Consumer Price Index CPIX Consumer Price Index Excluding Mortgage Costs , Vitesse is cooperating with 30 other member companies to define and develop open architecture and interoperable standard components for high-speed networking. Vitesse is headquartered in Camarillo, California Camarillo is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. The population was 57,077 at the 2000 census. A January 1, 2006 California Department of Finance estimate lists the population at 64,034. The Ventura Freeway (U.S. Route 101) is the city's primary thoroughfare. , and manufactures volume ICs at its two fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. facilities in Camarillo and Colorado Springs. Company and Product information can be found on the web at www.vitesse.com. About Solidum Established in 1997 and based in Ottawa, Canada, and Scotts Valley, CA, Solidum is a leader in the development of wirespeed packet classification products. Solidum's unique approach, based on programmable state machine technology and an openly distributed pattern processing language, accelerates the time to market for a wide range of broadband network applications. The company develops ICs for high-speed communication equipment manufacturers. Solidum is a founding member of CPIX (www.CPIXforum.com), a principal member of the Optical Internetworking Forum The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) was organized to facilitate and accelerate the development of next-generation optical internetworking products. The OIF produces Electrical, Tunable Laser, Very Short Reach Hardware Interfaces. (www.OIForum.com), and a participating member of CSIX (www.CSIX.org), and the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (www.10gea.org). |
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