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Power-One's Z-One Digital IBA Powers ``Triple Play'' for Meriton Networks Optical Switching Platform

Posted on: Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 15:00 CST

Power-One, Inc. (Nasdaq:PWER) today released details on another Z-One(TM) Digital IBA design win. Meriton Networks' application is an optical switching platform for metro-area networks that support a range of data rates from 100Mbps to 10Gbps. Power for Meriton's protocol-agnostic converged-network product is provided by a Z-One Digital IBA(TM) solution configured with five outputs, supplying currents ranging from 3 to 25 amps.

Michel Pigeon, Meriton Networks' Director of Hardware Design, commented, "Our design team selected Power-One's Z-One Digital IBA for a range of development, performance and cost reasons. The Z-7000's current-sharing capabilities can be readily configured to support our mix of low voltages and high currents. In addition, the capability to easily configure critical parameters such as: sequencing, phase interleaving, voltage margining, and telemetry, via a graphical user interface really simplified this implementation and came at no additional overall cost."

Steve Goldman, Power-One's Chairman, commented, "Meriton Networks' application is an excellent example of a customer employing the versatility of Z-One Digital IBA(TM) to power multiple-protocol systems; their products enable the triple-play convergence of voice over IP, video on demand, and Internet access. Flexibility through programmability, including the capability to reconfigure a power system without having to remove or replace any components on a board, is one of the reasons why the Z-7000 Series is garnering so many design wins in next-generation infrastructure applications."

The industry-standard I2C-compatible Z-7000 Series utilizes an extremely-scalable architecture that employs many revolutionary operating concepts. An extensive range of parameters, such as Vout for each POL, is user-programmed via I2C protocols, or through a graphical user interface, and stored in a Digital Power Manager. At system startup, the Digital Power Manager uses this stored information to initialize up to 32 POLs. After system initialization, ongoing bi-directional communications facilitate intelligent power system operation. Hardware-configurable Z-1000 POLs are also available for customers preferring power management without programming.

About Power-One

Power-One products power high-availability infrastructure applications such as: wireless communications, routers, data storage and servers, optical networking, medical diagnostic, railway controls, and semiconductor test equipment. Power-One, with headquarters in Camarillo, CA, has global sales offices and manufacturing and R&D operations in China, Dominican Republic, Ireland, Slovakia, Switzerland, and the United States. For more information, please visit www.power-one.com.

About Meriton Networks

Meriton Networks Inc., provider of the optical networking foundation for 21st century networks has developed the industry's first unified end-to-end Agile Optical Networking architecture. Meriton customers, which include incumbent and competitive carriers as well as world-class enterprises, deploy a single, cost-effective solution that addresses the issues of fiber relief and network cost reduction, while also enabling the delivery of all high-speed metro and regional services. The Meriton solution includes metro access, metro core and regional extension products, which are fully managed by a best-in-class suite of network and service management and network planning tools. For more information, please visit http://www.meriton.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS: In the word I2C, the numeral 2 should appear as a superscript. This may not appear properly in some systems.

Source: Business Wire

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