Supercomm: Infineon, Xelerated Form Wired Alliance
Online staff -- EDN, June 21, 2004
Designed to address the needs of system OEMs developing data aware transport network products, Xelerated and Infineon Technologies AG today announced they have partnered to develop reference designs where Ethernet MPLS/VPLS-based data networking is added on top of SDH/Sonet or RPR.
In addition to the reference designs, the companies said they would collaborate on sales and marketing of these solutions, with Xelerated’s X10q family of network processors being available from Infineon.
Xelerated said its technology is aimed at enterprise, metro and transport applications that require with low power consumption, small footprint and programmability to support future software additions. The company’s data flow architecture delivers deterministic processing for high-density line and service cards with up to 40Gbits/sec. of aggregated user bandwidth, while dissipating less than 10 watts, at a cost of $490, the companies said.
Infineon also said its cooperation with Xelerated has already garnered success with tier-1 customers and the company would build on this momentum to address customer requirements.
“Xelerated’s network processor meets our customers’ requirements for deterministic protocol processing at low power and complements Infineon’s framer and switching solutions with higher layer processing,” said Christian Scherp, VP of marketing of wireline communications at Infineon Technologies North America, in a statement.
A jointly developed 10Gbits/sec. resilient packet ring solution will be shown this week at the Supercomm2004 exhibition in Chicago, the companies said.
