AMCC Builds Upon Successful nP3700 Family with Integrated Network Processor and Traffic Manager Devices for Access and Metro Applications
Monday July 18, 8:00 am ET
# SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2005--Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) (NASDAQ:AMCC - News):Utilizing AMCC's Proven nP5(TM), Fifth Generation Network Processor Architecture, the nP3740 and nP3750 Enable Customers to Reduce Power, Density and Cost While Offering Greater Design Flexibility and Richer Levels of Hierarchy
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) (NASDAQ:AMCC - News) today announced the nP3740 and nP3750, the newest members of the nP3700 family of 5Gbps integrated network processors and traffic managers. Optimized for packet processing applications within the access and metro transport markets, the nP3740 and nP3750 maintain best-in-class network processing performance, traffic management and software compatibility that system vendors require today.
The previously released nP3700 and nP3710 network processors target Multi-Service Switches, Core, Edge Routers, DSLAMs and OC-48 AAL5 SAR applications, whereas the new nP3740 and nP3750 devices are designed for applications including Metro Ethernet, IP Access Platforms, PON Access, Session border controllers and Voice gateways, offering a more customized focus on the access and transport markets.
The devices are pin and software compatible with the previously released nP3700 family of NPU solutions and boast the highest performance and lowest power and board area requirements of existing integrated network processing and traffic manager devices. Offering multiple generations of network processors targeting the access and metro transport applications, AMCC further delivers unparalleled power in an integrated hardware traffic manager with the nP3740 and nP3750.
"Requirements for the evolving access metro transport market are driving customers to support COS queuing, subscriber separation, flow and queue level traffic shaping into logical ports such as VCAT channels, and physical ports such Gigabit Ethernet or fractional Gigabit Ethernet ports. AMCC's nP3700 traffic manager supports five levels of hierarchy and multiple levels of shaping to meet these evolving requirements," said Daryn Lau, vice president and general manager for AMCC's Communications Group. "By building on the success of our nP3700 solution with the nP3740 and nP3750, we can provide an even broader portfolio of flexible programming environments, high levels of performance and traffic management capabilities that are critical to our customers."
The devices were designed from the ground up using AMCC's nP5(TM) technology, enabling developers to deliver extremely fine-grained control of subscriber traffic without impacting the ability to perform complex ATM and packet internetworking at media speeds. The nP3740 and nP3750 also utilize highly optimized hardware co-processors and traffic manager hardware surrounding a fully programmable processor core.
A Metro Ethernet software application, C programming environment, integrated development environment and hardware reference design are all available with the nP3740 and nP3750 solutions. Compatible with AMCC's line of terminating framers, the nP3740 and nP3750 are also available in three speed grades and in Commercial and industrial temperature ratings.
AMCC at The Linley Group's Access System Design Seminar
AMCC will be participating in The Linley Group's Access System Design Seminar, which is taking place on July 21, 2005, from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., at the Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara, CA. AMCC will be speaking in sessions and panels highlighting access-focused NPUs and CPUs. For more information about AMCC's involvement in this event, please visit amcc.com.
Availability
Each packaged in a 1935 HC-BGA, AMCC's nP3740 and nP3750 will begin sampling in Q3 2005 with volume production commencing in Q1 2006. For additional technical information on the nP3740, visit amcc.com. For additional technical information on the nP3750, visit amcc.com. For a photo of the nP3740, visit amcc.com. For a photo of the nP3750, visit amcc.com.
About AMCC
AMCC provides the essential building blocks for the processing, moving and storing of information worldwide. The company blends systems and software expertise with high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon integration to deliver silicon, hardware and software solutions for global wide area networks (WAN), embedded applications such as PowerPC and programmable SOC architectures, storage area networks (SAN), and high-growth storage markets such as Serial ATA (SATA) RAID. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in San Diego, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at amcc.com. |
