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To: James Fulop who wrote (9224)	6/25/2000 7:21:00 AM
From: James Fulop	Read Replies (1) of 12623

>>An active debate in the communications field revolves around whether systems vendors should custom-design their own Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) or purchase the raw chips: FPGAs, or programmable logic. With an FPGA, you can take the chips in-house and use software to configure the logic circuits for your own purposes. One example of a company using such an approach is Sycamore Networks Inc. sycamorenet.com (Nasdaq: SCMR). In a recent visit to Sycamore Networks, I noticed that a bevy of their high-speed networking cards held Xilinx chips. On the other end of the debate, there is a company such as Redback Networks redback.com (Nasdaq:RBAK), which is focusing on using the expertise from its Siara acquisition to build custom ASICs.<< Full article at: lightreading.com Ciena's ASIC involvement has been mentioned on this thread before, but I was wondering about Ciena's FPGA involvement. Anybody know? (Or is Ciena totally in the ASIC camp?) Thanks

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