AppliedMicro Announces Full Solution Availability of Industry’s First 100G OTN Transponder/Muxponder Solution
February 16 2012 - 8:03AM
Business Wire
Applied Micro Circuits Corp., or AppliedMicro (Nasdaq: AMCC),
today announced general production availability of the industry’s
first standard 100 Gigabit per second transponder/muxponder
solutions for Optical Transport Networks (OTN) and data centers.
After making their debut one year ago, the company’s designs have
passed all interoperability tests and are reaching initial stages
of deployment in 100G carrier and data center networks as equipment
vendors seek time-to-market advantage for expanded bandwidth and
capacity.
The 100G transponder/muxponder is capable of multiplexing any
combination of 10G and 40G client signals into a 100G OTN signal
(OTU4). As a member of AppliedMicro’s family of 100G OTN solutions,
the Muxponder is designed to help operators expand network capacity
of the Internet by a factor of ten to support increasing global
demand for high definition video, mobile, social networking,
business transactions, video conferencing and cloud computing
services. Additionally, these 100G OTN pipes are being deployed
between high capacity data centers where significant growth is
driving demand for higher speed connections.
AppliedMicro’s 100G Muxponder supports any combination of
signals from 10G and 40G Ethernet to legacy OC192/OC768 SONET/SDH,
as well as 8G and 10G Fibre Channel. As a result, the solution can
carry both data and storage traffic efficiently and can be used for
file and backup synchronization between large data centers. It also
interoperates with all major forward error correction (FEC) schemes
in long-haul optical network architectures. The solution unifies
AppliedMicro’s TPO/TPOT404 transponder/muxponder and PQ60T 10/40G
mapper/framer PHY with a common Application Programming Interface
(API) that enables efficient integration and maintenance efforts
for equipment vendors.
“AppliedMicro’s 100G transponder/muxponder reference design
provides a common software API for both its SoftSilicon and ASSP
solutions, making it efficient to integrate with system software of
the host platform or line card,” said Lars Pedersen, Chief
Technology Officer of AppliedMicro TPACK A/S. “System design and
maintenance efforts for 100G platforms are greatly simplified and
streamlined with a common API, and it provides software investment
protection for future upgrades as AppliedMicro’s highly integrated
silicon devices come to market offering even greater cost-reduction
potential.”
AppliedMicro’s transponder/muxponder silicon and compatible
software combine the fastest way for system vendors to deploy 100G
links. Reference designs and API for the 100G transponder/muxponder
are now available.
“Our recent survey of carriers shows that new deployments of
100G technology appear unstoppable. Operators will deploy higher
speed wavelengths to achieve the lowest cost per bit for the
transport of SONET/SDH, OTN,
and Ethernet network traffic,” said Andrew Schmitt,
Directing Analyst, Optical, for Infonetics Research. “Solutions
like AppliedMicro’s transponder/muxponder designs are well
positioned for the rapid deployments of 100G OTN technology for
long-haul applications.”
“Solutions like AppliedMicro’s 100G OTN Muxponder and Acacia’s
100G MSA Modules allow telecom equipment manufacturers to bring
systems to market quickly and confidently. By providing the
flexibility to meet evolving industry standards and accommodate for
customizations, they’re enabling the rapid deployment of 100G in
carrier networks,” said John LoMedico, Vice President of Sales and
Business Development for Acacia Communications, a leader in the MSA
Module market at 100G speeds and beyond.
AppliedMicro Overview
AppliedMicro is a global leader in energy conscious computing
solutions for telco, enterprise, data center, consumer and SMB
applications. With a 30-year heritage as an innovator in high-speed
connectivity and high performance embedded processing, AppliedMicro
employs patented transport and embedded processor SoCs to provide
high performance energy efficient products. AppliedMicro's
corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale,
California. Sales and engineering offices are located
throughout the world. For further information regarding
AppliedMicro, visit the company’s Web site at
http://www.apm.com.
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, AMCC, SoftSilicon,
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