Re. AMCC:
Dale, I think the company should be included. Here's what's driving the stock today. This was posted on AMCC thread:
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000--
Indus Combined with AMCC's S3091/S3092 Mux/Demux Devices Provides a Complete OC-192 SONET/SDH DWDM/TDM
Aggregation and Add-Drop Mux Solution
Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) (NASDAQ:AMCC), the leader in high-bandwidth silicon for the world's optical networks, today announced the availability of Indus (S19201), the industry's first highly integrated STS-192/STM-64 framer device that supports channelized OC-192 SONET and SDH traffic.
The Indus, when used in conjunction with the recently announced S3091/S3092 mux/demux devices, provides the first complete OC-192 SONET/SDH Framer/Phy chipset solution for SONET/SDH and Optical Networking applications.
Ideal for high-bandwidth DWDM/TDM aggregation and ADM
applications, the Indus aggregates up to four STS-48/STM-16 parallelline interfaces into one STS-192/STM-64 16-bit, 622 MHz Line Interface. The Indus also supports redundancy and traffic grooming applications, via two on-chip STS-1 level Time Slot Interchange switches (TSIs). The Indus's STS-1 TSIs enable Optical Networking equipment vendors to develop OC-192 cross-connects and switch fabrics with STS-1 level granularity. The Indus can also take existing OC-48 equipment vendors to OC-192 rates with minimal additional hardware.
"With the availability of the Indus/S3091/S3092 chipset,
SONET/DWDM equipment vendors now have easy access to a complete tool-box of off-the-shelf, snap-together, OC-192/OC-48/OC-12/OC-3 Framer/Phy products," said Mark Donovan, AMCC's Indus product marketing manager. "AMCC's total SONET/SDH Framer/Phy solution set enables designers to quickly develop next-generation Optical Networking equipment, while at the same time reducing power and board
space."
"Indus is the first device to provide SONET/SDH framing and
overhead processing at OC-192 speeds," said John LoMedico, director of marketing and applications at AMCC/Andover. "The product's ability to seamlessly work with AMCC's OC-48 framer/mapper/pointer processor devices, and to provide for the aggregation of STS-3, STS-12 and STS-48 traffic into an OC-192 signal enables AMCC to support even the most demanding of DWDM and ADM bandwidth applications."
Indus is the latest addition to the SONET/SDH framer family of products, which includes Congo, Nile, Amazon and Missouri. Developedby the former Cimaron Communications of Andover, Mass. that wasacquired by AMCC last year, Indus is designed to work with AMCC'sfamily of OC-192 and OC-48 PHY and framer devices. When used in conjunction with other AMCC framer/mapper/pointer processor devices,the Indus provides for the payload mapping and aggregation of up to 64 TS-3/STM-1 payloads and/or pointer processing of 192 STS-1
tributaries. Indus also provides the ability to transport a 10Gbps signal on four low cost 2.5 Gbps optics, thereby enabling the use of existing OC-48 infrastructures and providing significant cost savings to OC-192 system providers.
"This solution enables customers to develop systems that flexibly span the boundary between traditional standards-based time division multiplexing (TDM) pplications and the evolving DWDM infrastructure," continued LoMedico. "It also supports various performance monitoring functions and automatic protection switching (APS) implementations at
OC-192 speeds for DWDM transport equipment."
Pricing and Availability
The Indus (S19201) is priced at $635 in quantities of 1000 and packaged in an 824-pin CCGA. The solution is sampling now to development partners, with production release scheduled for Q2 of 2000.
Forward Looking Statements
Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, "The Factors That May Affect Future Results" detailed in the
company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 1999, and the company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results could differ materially, as a result of such factors, from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.
Product photos, datasheets and application notes are available upon request. AMCC is a registered trademark of Applied Micro Circuits Corp.
CONTACT: Applied Micro Circuits Corp.
Bill Berridge, 858/535-4260
billb@amcc.com
Mary Pund, 858/535-6523
maryp@amcc.com
or
The Ardell Group
Karina Wollesen, 650/569-3806
karina@ardellgroup.com
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