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Vitesse Wins Gigabit Ethernet Designs With China's Leading SMB and Home Networking Developer

Posted on: Monday, 26 September 2005, 09:00 CDT

TP-LINK Enters Volume Shipment with Ground-breaking Gigabit Ethernet Smart and Unmanaged Switch Product Family Based on Vitesse's SparX(TM) Series of Integrated Switch-plus-Copper-PHY ICs

Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:VTSS), the market leader in Gigabit Ethernet ICs, today announced multiple design wins with TP-LINK, China's leading provider of SMB and Home Networking switches. Vitesse's world-leading SparX Gigabit Ethernet switch IC series has been adopted by TP-LINK as the premier silicon solution for its new 5- to 24-port 10/100/1000M Smart Ethernet and Unmanaged Ethernet switches. The TP-LINK TL-SG1005D/1008D/1008/1016/1024 switch products are now in volume shipment.

"Upon extensive evaluation, Vitesse was clearly the leader in both Gigabit Ethernet Smart and Unmanaged switch IC technology. They are the only company that offers a complete suite of Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet Smart and Unmanaged switches that achieves the three selection criteria essential to our design specification: highly-integrated, low power consumption, and cost-effective," said Jianxun Su, vice president of TP-LINK. "Moreover, Vitesse and TP-LINK share the same goal of bringing the right Gigabit Ethernet switch solution into the market."

He continued, "Today, TP-LINK is the leader in the SMB and SOHO markets, and by working with a customer-centric vendor like Vitesse, it will further enhance our product offering, reduce product time-to-market, and achieve cost-effectiveness. This will, in-turn, further strengthen and expand our market-leading position."

The SparX Feature Set Hits the Sweet Spot for Gigabit Ethernet Solutions

Based on an innovative architecture and high levels of integration, Vitesse's SparX series of devices provide a Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet switch solution with advanced QoS features at compelling prices for cost-sensitive SMB, SME, and SOHO switch markets. Delivering the industry's most far-reaching offering of tightly integrated, ultra-low power Gigabit Ethernet devices, and with its staunch commitment to Gigabit Ethernet, Vitesse continues to set the pace of innovation across market sectors. These products make the company the pre-eminent supplier to OEMs designing tomorrow's new-wave broadband products.

"TP-LINK is a recognized leader in SMB and Home Networking," said Martyn Humphries, vice president and general manager of Vitesse's Ethernet Products Division. "Working with TP-LINK has provided a tremendous opportunity to showcase the technical abilities of two leading companies striving to deliver state-of-the-art Gigabit Ethernet Smart and Unmanaged switch products. This design win demonstrates customer confidence in the SparX series of devices which is the industry's only product line that covers all important SMB, SME, and SOHO configurations in unmanaged, smart, and Web-managed applications."

About TP-LINK

TP-LINK is the No. 1 market shareholder and the biggest manufacturer of home and small/medium business networking products in China. With 12 sales branches and more than 600 distributors in China, TP-LINK can sell more than 12 million products annually. A number of TP-LINK products take more than 50% market share in China. TP-LINK is now expanding its business to the global market, striving for a larger percent of the world market share.

With strong R&D, efficient manufacturing, and strict quality management, TP-LINK guarantees the performance and quality of products. Based on the confidence of tens of millions of customers, TP-LINK has become a leading enterprise as a result of combining the advantages of R&D, manufacturing and sales. Additional company and product information is available at www.TP-LINK.com.cn.

About Vitesse

Vitesse designs, develops, and markets a diverse portfolio of high-performance, cost-competitive semiconductor solutions for communications and storage networks worldwide. Engineering excellence and dedicated customer service distinguish Vitesse as an industry leader in Gigabit Ethernet LAN, Ethernet-over-SONET, Advanced Switching, Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI, Optical Transport, and other applications. Vitesse innovation empowers customers to deliver superior products for Enterprise, Access, Metro, and Core applications. Additional company and product information is available at www.vitesse.com.

Vitesse is a registered trademark and SparX is a trademark in the United States and/or other jurisdictions of Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective holders.

Note to media: Additional information is available at: Vitesse: http://www.vitesse.com/Ethernet and TP-LINK: http://www.TP-LINK.com.cn

Source: Business Wire

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