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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 9, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 23
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Breaking News -
Networking:
Cortina Demos Its Milan IC For
Routing Systems
Cortina Systems, a leader in integrated high speed digital and analog
silicon
technology, demonstrated at the Supercomm Conference & Exhibit in Atlanta, its
Milan integrated circuit. Milan, which has potential applications in all
routing and transport communications systems, effectively reduces by many
orders of magnitude the number of line cards presently required to support
each communications protocol. One of the first commercially available
integrated circuits built using the latest .13 um CMOS technology, Milan is a
highly integrated OC-192/OC-48 Framer / RPR MAC that incorporates SONET and
Ethernet Framing, POS, GFP and ATM Mapping, while also supporting IEEE 802.17
Resilient Packet Rings (RPR). In addition, Milan provides all of the state-of-
the- art interfaces required by the system manufacturers. These include
SPI4.2, XAUI, SFI4.1 and serial XFI.
"Milan allows multiple protocols to be delivered via a single line card,"
says Zino Chair, Cortina's Vice-president of Marketing. "It represents
significant simplification in line card hardware architecture and will lead to
major improvements in both system design and network operation."
"We have been shipping Milan for over five months and the response from
the customers has been very positive," says Chair. "They say Milan meets
their requirements by providing increased functionality while significantly
reducing space and power requirements and minimizing design and inventory
costs."
"Cortina's ability to combine MAC, Framer and XFI technologies in a single
IC
is a significant contribution to the continued integration of line cards for
networking products such as our powerful Traverse Multiservice Transport
Platform" said John Webley, CEO of Turin Networks.
Production versions of Milan, fully compliant with the final RPR standard,
will be available in Q4 2003.
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