Solidum Secures Partnership with Vitesse Alliance to provide complete, scalable OC192 solution to system vendors.Business Editors NetWorld Interop 2000 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2000 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 pioneer in wirespeed packet classification products, today announced that they have secured a new strategic partnership with Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. to develop a common applications platform for network processing to OC192 rates and beyond. The 10 Gbps market will begin ramping in late 2000, making 2001 the year of OC192. Solidum is extending its advanced classification capability to 10Gbps and above. The partnership paves the way for delivering a total OC192 system solution including framing, classification, modification and queuing. "Solidum's classification technology, coupled with the TeraPOWER architecture, helps fulfill Vitesse's goal to provide seamless processing solutions beyond 10 Gbps," said Samba samba Ballroom dance of Brazilian origin, popularized in the U.S. and Europe in the 1940s. Danced to music in ⁴⁄₄ time with a syncopated rhythm, the dance is characterized by simple forward and backward steps and tilting, rocking body movements. Murthy, Vice President of Marketing for Vitesse's Advanced Network Products Division. "We view Solidum's classification co-processor technology as an excellent complement to the solution set we've assembled through recent acquisitions." Vitesse completed the acquisition of XaQti in mid-1999, OroLogic in April 2000, and recently announced their intent to purchase Sitera. Coupled with a rapidly evolving switch fabric family, the Vitesse portfolio of network processors offers the most complete network semiconductor solution available. "Our intent has been to dominate the network processing space through internal development, strategic acquisitions and key partnerships," continued Murthy. "We've made progress working with Solidum through the CPIX CPIX Consumer Price Index CPIX Consumer Price Index Excluding Mortgage Costs organization, and we're delighted to leverage their technology through our multi-architecture applications platform." "We are very excited to be working with Vitesse," said Misha Nossik, Executive Vice President of Solidum. "This partnership will enable us to provide communication equipment vendors a total -- and completely scalable -- solution for high speed system processing. With this alliance, we are demonstrating our commitment to being a unifying force in network processing." 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, 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 Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. . 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 bit 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), and a participating member of CSIX (www.CSIX.org), the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (www.10gea.org) and 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). |
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