AMCC Introduces New 10G ENET/OTN/SONET/SDH Mapper and FEC Devices

New Members of the Rubicon Family Enable Higher-Density and Lower-Cost Carrier Ethernet and WDM Line Cards

NXTcomm 2007
Booth 7536

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC), a global leader in embedded Power Architecture™ processing, optical transport and storage solutions, announced two new versions of its successful family of Rubicon products that enable low cost Carrier Grade Ethernet services over Metro and Core SONET/SDH and OTN networks. The TiPi-Rubicon-192 and TiPi-Rubicon-48 devices offer asynchronous mapping and forward error correction (FEC) capabilities in a smaller-footprint and lower-cost package for WDM and Metro Transport customers designing high density boards for 10 GbE-based solutions.

Building upon the strong success of the Rubicon family, AMCC has repackaged this powerful device in a smaller footprint package, allowing their customers to take advantage of a 30% area savings. This new package also allows for a more cost effective solution as the packaging cost has decreased significantly. Customers can now realize a much more dense and less expensive system solution, while leveraging the software investment made on the original Rubicon device.

“The optical transport and carrier Ethernet markets are moving quickly to higher-density line cards at both 10G and 2.5G rates. With our Rubicon products already a leader in these markets, it made sense to offer a software-compatible solution that would enable increased density while simultaneously lowering cost,” stated Mitch Kahn, Vice President of Marketing for the Transport Group at AMCC. “Many customers designing 40G and 80G bandwidth cards for WDM, MSSP and Metro Ethernet applications will find that the TiPi-Rubicon devices offer the perfect solution to meet this need.”

"As a satisfied customer of AMCC’s current Rubicon device, StrataLight is pleased that AMCC has introduced the Tipi-Rubicon device which reduces the size of one of our critical 40G components,” said Shri Dodani, CEO of StrataLight Communications. “The Rubicon family of devices allows StrataLight’s market-leading 40G platform to offer any mix of OC-192/STM-64, 10 GbE, and OTU-2 in the same 40G OTU-3 frame.”

The TiPi-Rubicon-192 and TiPi-Rubicon-48 are the fourth generation of AMCC’s family of FEC products that offer the most complete set of 10 GbE LAN mapping capabilities available today. In addition to a full set of SONET/SDH and OTN mapping monitoring blocks, Rubicon also provides six distinct methods in which to encapsulate and transport 10 GbE LAN signals, including the only commercially available solution for transporting 10 Gbe LAN at a full rate over a 10.7 GHz OTN-compliant network.

Employing a tight ball pitch (TiPi) packaging technology, the TiPi Rubicon-192 and TiPi-Rubicon-48 devices are packaged in a 27mm body with a 1mm ball. The TiPi-Rubicon-192 and TiPi-Rubicon-48 offer the industry’s smallest footprint OTU2 mapper and FEC solution in the market today.

The new high density devices provide a seamless migration path for earlier generation Rubicon products and offer AMCC customers new levels of performance and functionality as well as significant savings in power and real estate.

Availability

The TiPi-Rubicon-192 and TiPi-Rubicon-48 will begin sampling in July 2007 with volume production beginning in November 2007.

About AMCC

AMCC is a global leader in embedded Power Architecture™ processing, optical transport and storage solutions. Our products enable the development of converged IP-based networks offering high-speed secure data, high-definition video and high-quality voice for carrier, metropolitan, access and enterprise applications. AMCC provides networking equipment vendors with industry-leading communications processing, Ethernet, SONET and switch fabric solutions. AMCC is also the leading vendor of high-port count SATA RAID controllers enabling low-cost, high-performance, high-capacity storage. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at http://www.amcc.com.

About StrataLight

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley in the San Jose Bay Area in California, StrataLight Communications is the global leader in commercial deployment of ultra high capacity optical transmission sub-systems with line rates in excess of 40Gbps. StrataLight Communications enables service providers to address the growing demand for bandwidth driven by IP converged services using their existing fiber network infrastructure. Our products are sold to service providers by optical networking OEM partners. For more information, visit www.StrataLight.com.

Forward Looking Statements

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