Vitesse Announces the Industry's First Integrated 24-Port Gigabit Switch IC Available for Production.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NetWorld+Interop 2003 Las Vegas CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 2003 Stapleford(TM) Enables OEMs to Replace Fast Ethernet with Gigabit Ethernet, Enhancing Network Performance 10-fold, at Only Two-Times the Price Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq:VTSS VTSS Vehicle Theft Security System VTSS Vancouver Technical Secondary School ) today announced Stapleford (VSC VSC Vehicle Stability Control VSC Vermont State Colleges (Waterbury, Vermont) VSC Vessel Safety Check (USCG Auxilliary) VSC Vehicle Skid Control VSC Vermont Service Center 7303), a 24-port, Gigabit Switch Integrated Circuit (IC) intended to migrate existing 24- and 48-port, 10/100 Local Area Networking (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) switch boxes to triple speed Gigabit capabilities. This product is available today for production orders. Offering wire-speed performance and the ability to forward packets at 36 Million/second, this Gigabit Switch-on-Chip combines the highest level of integration and functionality in its class and simultaneously achieves a very low system cost point. Stapleford supports Jumbo packets and provides for wire-speed automatic learning. Its Layer 4-aware programmable classifier allows for enhanced Quality of Service, and it is optimized with Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface (RGMII) specifies a particular interface between an Ethernet MAC and PHY. RGMII uses half the number of pins as used in the GMII interface. (RGMII RGMII Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface ) and Reduced Ten Bit Interface (RTBI RTBI National Association of Round Tables of Britain and Ireland RTBI Retarded-Time Boundary Integral ) to simplify board layout and condense con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. design time. Stapleford also supports Half Duplex Back Pressure and both Multicast and Broadcast Storm Control. This 24-port Gigabit Switch IC dissipates the industry's lowest amount of power, less than five watts, which eliminates the need for external cooling elements and reduces the cost of the power supply unit. "Vitesse has been successful in leveraging its dominant position in the WAN market into the LAN," said Kevan Smith, business unit director of Vitesse's Ethernet Products Division. "By introducing the next-generation of highly integrated, cost-optimized Gigabit Switch ICs, Vitesse is enabling OEMs to aggressively replace the existing Fast Ethernet switches and take advantage of price points two-times that of Fast Ethernet prices, as well as the improved performance." Vitesse's London(TM) Family of Gigabit Switch ICs Stapleford is a member of the London family of Ethernet switches. London products are designed to yield Gigabit wire-speed performance at extremely competitive prices. All members of the family have a common architecture to ensure ease of use and the reusability of software (from 8 to 48 ports). The family offers high levels of integration, including optimized on-chip memory and addressing capabilities, which eliminates the need for external memory. Additionally, the London family has multiple controller interfaces, allowing OEMs to use a very inexpensive 8051 micro-controller to configure the switch system for unmanaged and Web-managed solutions. Additional Features and Pricing Stapleford comes with a complete managed reference system solution targeted at the Desktop and Workgroup switch market. The reference platform is optimized with only six-layers of PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. board. This switch is compliant with the following 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. protocols: -- Full Duplex Flow Control (802.3x(TM)) -- Link Aggregation (802.3ad(TM)) -- Port Based Access Control (802.1x(TM)) -- Spanning Tree Protocol Based on an algorithm invented by Radia Perlman while working for Digital Equipment Corporation[1][2], Spanning Tree Protocol Is an OSI layer-2 protocol which ensures a loop free topology for any bridged LAN. (802.1D(TM)) -- Rapid Spanning Tree (802.3W(TM)) -- Multiple Spanning Tree (802.3x(TM)) -- OAM (Operations Administration Maintenance) Refers to managing and maintaining a network or network device. The P in "OAM&P" adds "provisioning" to the list, which is a telephone company term for setting up a service. (802.3ah(TM)) -- Virtual Bridged LAN (802.1Q(TM)) Stapleford is available now. Accompanying this product is a comprehensive library of system hardware and software manuals and other supporting documentation to assist with design and validation. Pricing for volume production is $144 per unit. Stapleford will be running in customer production units during NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003, taking place April 27-May 2, 2003. Vitesse's booth number is ER-14. About Vitesse Vitesse is a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative silicon solutions and optical devices used in the networking, communications and storage industries worldwide. Vitesse works to specifically address the requirements of system designers and OEMs by providing high-performance, integrated products that are ideally suited for use in Enterprise, Access, Metro and Core applications. Additional company and product information is available at www.vitesse.com. |
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