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NEC Selects Agere Systems Network
Processor
Agere Systems announced that NEC Corporation has chosen Agere's network
processor solution for use in NEC's high-speed, highly reliable multi-service
router equipment family. Agere's PayloadPlus chip solution, which includes
crucial traffic management capability, enables NEC's CX4200 broadband
switching routers to be more easily upgradeable and more reliable. NEC's
routers are primarily purchased by telecommunications service providers and
deployed in their central offices.
Agere's network processors perform various "traffic cop" functions,
including
traffic management, which is handling voice and Internet data signals flowing
in and out of NEC's equipment. Traffic management sets and schedules
priorities for volumes of traffic, times, and locations for delivery of high-
qualify and prioritized voice and data services.
"NEC's router customers want quick and inexpensive access to voice, data,
and
video signals traveling through multiple types of equipment, protocols, and
services, including Asynchronous Transfer Mode and Internet Protocol," said
Akifumi Yonehara, chief manager, IP Networks Division, Broadband Networks
Operations Unit of NEC.
"Agere's chip solution has that versatility to smoothly access these
numerous
types of services," Yonehara added. "In addition, Agere's fast and high
bandwidth traffic management performance -- the best we've seen on the market
-- makes Agere's product particularly attractive to us, because it addresses
our customers needs for reliably and cost-effectively handling large volumes
of voice and data traffic."
Agere also offers NEC a simplified software program to run Agere's network
processor, which dramatically reduces the time and money NEC has to spend
programming the chip. And Agere offers a smooth software migration for NEC to
next-generation routers and network processors.
"NEC produces world class router equipment that offers a multitude of
different capabilities to its customers," said Mark Pinto, vice president for
the Processing, Aggregation, and Switching Business Unit. "Agere and NEC have
struck a great collaboration in building current and future broadband
equipment using network processors as the driving engines."
NEC and Agere have also had a broader collaboration that includes solutions
that range from multi-gigabit Ethernet speeds up to 10 gigabit per second (OC-
192).
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