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Xelerated Introduces HX300 Family of NPUs and Industry's First Programmable Ethernet Switches to the Fiber Access Market

Posted on: Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 09:00 CDT

Xelerated, the global leader in field-proven Carrier Ethernet ASSP-based chipsets, today announced its next-generation HX300 family of high performance network processors with integrated traffic management and fully-programmable Ethernet switches. It brings new levels of integration and flexibility to the Carrier Ethernet market, and enables mass deployment of advanced Fiber Access solutions while significantly reducing solution costs.

The HX300's multilayer programmable Ethernet switches represent a breakthrough in integration and design flexibility. This combination of switching and processing functionality enables the development of service-aware applications that readily adapt to changes in network conditions and optimize performance.

The HX300 family offers the low cost and power efficiency of custom designed ASICs, while bringing the NPU advantages of reduced time-to-market and value differentiation through software. The Xelerated Dataflow Architecture is the only packet processing architecture in the industry that delivers wirespeed deterministic performance with programmability. It is the first and only NPU architecture that scales to 100Gbps full duplex. Based on the same Xelerated Dataflow Architecture employed in previous generation devices, the HX300 family provides a uniform management method and common programming environment across the range of fiber access and Carrier Ethernet products. This enables network equipment vendors to leverage their development expenses across Core, Metro and Access platforms.

The advanced standards-based egress traffic management and the tight integration of the Xelerated Dataflow Architecture enables the HX300 family to support a QoS-aware distributed traffic management model for either chassis-based switching systems or meshed configurations. Triple play services are enabled by a flexible queue allocation and programmable hierarchy that enforces per-flow, per-subscriber, per-class Service Level Agreements and bandwidth guarantees.

As carriers' complete initial deployments of fiber access based technologies like Active Ethernet, GPON and EPON, they face operational and economic challenges to mass deployment of these networks. Significant increases in backhaul bandwidth and escalating QoS requirements of IP communications and service availability are driving new requirements for aggregation platforms and the need for extending Carrier Ethernet services in the access network. The highly integrated and cost-effective HX300 extends Carrier Ethernet into first mile applications for both residential and business access.

"Xelerated's new series of programmable Ethernet switching devices is well positioned to capture design wins in the emerging fiber access market. Embedding the company's core dataflow processing technology in an Ethernet switch delivers unique flexibility at low cost, both of which are key for system vendors," said Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group. "Xelerated is poised for rapid growth based on its metro design wins, and the fiber access market represents a sizeable additional opportunity for the company."

The HX300 family includes three core series: HX310, HX320 and the HX330. The HX310 consists of programmable Ethernet Switches for fiber access aggregation switches, GPON/EPON linecards, EADs. The HX320 Series is an NPU for CESR, Service Routers, Legacy Systems, 100 GE, 40 GE and OC-768 applications. The HX330 is an NPU with integrated Traffic Manager for CESR, Service Routers, GPON/EPON linecards, xDSL aggregation.

The HX300 family is extremely flexible. It enables fixed-port, stackable and chassis- based networking systems that can be configured in mesh, ring, star, dual star and stackable topologies. The HX300 integrates 100-Gigabit, 40-Gigabit, 10-Gigabit and 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports. The HX300 is binary software-compatible with custom and Metro Ethernet Applications (MEA) that have already been developed for Xelerated's X10 and X11 NPU families.

"With the introduction of the HX300 family of products, we are extending our technology platform with two innovative technologies - programmable Ethernet switching and advanced traffic management - representing a breakthrough in integration, design flexibility and application awareness," said Thomas Axelsson, CEO of Xelerated. "The Xelerated team has put deep thought into each and every one of these products, and we are confident that the launch of the HX300 line will clearly state our position as a leader in the Carrier Ethernet market - as well as the emerging fiber access market."

The HX300 family will begin sampling in Q4 2008. All devices are available in leaded and lead-free packages with options to support Industry Grade Temperature. Pricing is available on request.

About Xelerated

Xelerated is the global leader in field-proven next-generation ASSP-based Carrier Ethernet chipsets. The Xelerated Dataflow Architecture delivers wirespeed deterministic performance, enabling network equipment vendors to build fully-programmable carrier-class systems that reduce R&D costs, minimize risk and accelerate time-to-market. With its highly flexible network processor platform and linearly scalable products and solutions, Xelerated is an integral part of Tier One carrier networks around the world, and a vital component of any Metro, Access, or High-end Enterprise market.

The company has offices in Santa Clara, Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Beijing. For more information, visit www.xelerated.com.

Source: Business Wire

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