DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 19, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 20    ( Table of Contents )

Breaking News - Networking:

Altera Enables Network Traffic Over SONET/SDH IP Cores

Altera Corporation announced the availability of INTEC Systems' SONET/SDH intellectual property (IP) cores through the Altera Megafunction Partners Program (AMPPSM). Delivering increased flexibility, performance and time-to- market advantages in the development of optical networking products, these IP cores target Altera's high-performance Stratix device family, the industry's most powerful FPGAs. This compelling combination allows engineers to quickly develop a variety of data transport solutions for the movement of local, metro, and storage area network traffic over existing SONET/SDH infrastructures.

"The metro optical network infrastructure is based on SONET/SDH because it provides a reliable transport mechanism and well-established management procedures, all based on industry-standard and proven technologies," said Dr. Dennis Kong, CEO of INTEC Systems. "During the past 15 years, carriers have deployed SONET/SDH equipment worldwide, and our IP cores are building on that technology to continuously support the rapidly changing metro service requirements."

The INTEC IP cores include frame-mapped generic framing procedure (GFP-F), transparent-mapped GFP (GFP-T), and high-order virtual concatenation (HO VCAT) cores. INTEC's GFP cores enable the movement of various data protocols- including fast Ethernet, gigabit Ethernet, fibre channel, FICON, and ESCON- over existing SONET/SDH networks. Additionally, by dynamically adjusting transport channel capacities, the HO VCAT core facilitates a highly efficient use of bandwidth.

"Customers utilizing INTEC IP and Altera's Stratix FPGAs will be able to extend the value of widely deployed optical networks by facilitating the movement of various network protocols over concatenated channels that have been sized for the need. By slicing the bandwidth spectrum, designers can take full advantage of the capacity of optical networks to move a variety of data as efficiently as possible," said Craig Lytle, vice president of Altera's IP business unit.