Communications: Partnership Yields Interoperable Processing And Switching Solution

Feb. 16, 2006

A partnership between EZchip Technologies (a subsidiary of LanOptics Ltd.) and TeraChip Inc. combines high-speed network processing and switch fabrics to provide a highly integrated interoperable switching architecture. The solution combines the TeraChip 160-Gbit/s TCF16X10 switch fabric with the EZchip NP-2 10-Gbit/s network processor (with integrated traffic manager) to simplify the design of carrier-class switches and routers. The shared-memory switch fabric from TeraChip and the NP-2 combined packet processor and traffic manager from EZchip also provide advanced congestion management and quality-of-service mechanisms across the switch fabric, allowing the solution to meet system needs for triple-play voice, video, and data services. Samples of both chips are immediately available. A full ATCA-based reference system is available. Contact the respective companies for OEM pricing.

EZchip Technologies
www.ezchip.com
TeraChip Inc.
www.tera-chip.com

About the Author

Dave Bursky

Technologist

Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.