Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC), a global leader in high–speed optical transport for datacenter and telecommunication applications, embedded Power Architecture® processing, and storage solutions today announced interoperability between its QT2025 10–Gigabit per second (Gbps) physical layer device (PHY) with electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) and Gennum Corporation´s (TSX:GND) GN3052 ROSA for 10GBASE–LRM applications. The announcement is the latest development in preparing 10GBASE–LRM technology for high speed datacenter connectivity.
Together, these products show more than 6dB of OMA sensitivity margin over operating conditions, PCB trace lengths and IEEE 803.2aq 10GBASE–LRM stressors, delivering significant performance advantages including best–in–class sensitivity and very high gain. Gennum´s SFP+ ROSA and AMCC´s QT2025 have also demonstrated interoperability in SFP+, X2, XPAK and XENPAK applications.
"AMCC´s EDC and 10GbE PHY technology provided key elements in achieving outstanding 10GBASE–LRM results in interoperability testing with Gennum´s ROSA," said Gary Beauchamp, Senior Vice–President and General Manager, Optical Products, Gennum Corporation. "Gennum´s GN3052 ROSA provides Automatic Gain Control (AGC) functionality specifically designed for emerging applications utilizing EDC such as 10GBASE–LRM. Gennum´s unique AGC architecture in the GN3052 provides the industry´s best stressed sensitivity when used with leading EDC solutions."
AMCC´s QT2025 is a fully integrated 10 Gbps transceiver with fully–adaptive EDC. It provides a high–performance interface between a MAC or a switch device and optical modules. The QT2025 is also capable of interfacing directly to SFP+ direct attach copper cabling and to 10GBASE–KR backplanes. AMCC´s transport components allow system designers to offer the most cost–effective, high–performance, high–capacity delivery of enterprise traffic for 10–Gigabit Ethernet datacenter applications.
"The market for 10 Gbps connectivity technology is growing as more system designers seek to add higher performance links in datacenters," said Neal Neslusan, Director of Marketing at AMCC. "Gennum´s ROSA–based solutions pack all of the features and performance that designers want for these applications. The demonstration of interoperability provides a clear indication that 10 Gbps datacom traffic can be successfully transmitted over greater distances to meet the highly demanding 10GBASE–LRM specification. It is yet another milestone for deploying 10G in the market."
The GN3052 is part of Gennum´s ROSA product line that provides solutions for 10 Gbps applications including limiting and linear (AGC) ROSAs covering 850nm to 1550nm. Gennum´s ROSAs are based on its patented 10G receiver–on–a–chip platform (Rchip). The Rchip technology features the industry´s first fully integrated 10G optical receiver with integrated photodiode TIA and passives, all on a stacked die.
About AMCC
AMCC provides leadership semiconductor solutions to process, transport, and store digital information for the world´s wired and wireless networks. As a leading supplier of Power Architecture® based processors and with world–class expertise in SONET and Ethernet protocol processing, PHY technology, Storage processors and RAID controllers, our products are the foundation of the IP Communications Revolution. AMCC´s 3ware® SAS and SATA RAID controllers deliver cost–effective, high–performance, high–capacity storage for enterprises and consumers worldwide in applications like disk–to–disk backup, near–line storage, network–attached storage (NAS), video, and high–performance computing. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our website at http://www.amcc.com.
About Gennum
Gennum Corporation (TSX:GND) designs innovative semiconductor solutions and intellectual property (IP) cores for the world´s most advanced consumer connectivity, enterprise, video broadcast and data communications products. Leveraging the company´s proven optical, analog and mixed–signal products and IP, Gennum enables multimedia and data communications products to send and receive information without compromising the signal integrity. A recognized award–winner for advances in high definition (HD) broadcasting, Gennum is headquartered in Burlington, Canada, and has global design, research and development and sales offices in Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, the United States and the United Kingdom.
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