SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, July 13, 2005 - Xelerated, the price/performance leader in network processing, today announced that its XeleratorTM X11 network processor has been selected by Atrica for next-generation Carrier Ethernet products designed to support true carrier-class networks.
"The X11 is the only network processor that meets our strict scalability, availability and manageability requirements, while still delivering the cost-performance benefits of Ethernet," said Yoav Kluger, Chief Technology Officer of Atrica. "Its focused architecture provides the flexibility we need while eliminating the costs associated with unnecessary complexity. "
"Winning Atrica as a customer is a major proof point of the strength of Xelerated's Carrier Ethernet solutions," said Michael Howard, principal analyst at Infonetics Research. "This puts Xelerated in a position to be a substantial player in this high-growth market-Infonetics expects the Carrier Ethernet equipment portion to reach $2.7 billion in 2008 as operators become more focused on selling and marketing Ethernet-based services."
The platform wide decision by Atrica enables them to follow emerging standards without compromising performance and without disrupting traffic during updates. The 20G full duplex throughput of the X11 gives Atrica the highest Ethernet port density of any programmable Ethernet product on the market.
"Atrica is one of the leading suppliers of Carrier Ethernet equipment for next-generation networks and with our network processors they can build true carrier-class Ethernet solutions," said Thomas Eklund, Vice President of Business Development and EMEA Sales at Xelerated. "Our network processors have been selected for over 15 customer designs based on their superior carrier-class features and price/performance advantages," he concludes.
The Xelerated X11 network processor chosen by Atrica is the industry's first network processor optimized for mission-critical Ethernet applications such as Carrier Ethernet. The X11's unique, highly focused, data flow architecture provides the flexibility necessary to track changing standards and the different requirements of multiple geographies without adding the unnecessary complexity that increases costs and development time and reduces reliability, predictability and performance.
About Xelerated
Xelerated, the price/performance leader in network processing, is recognized as being the only network processor vendor to have combined the efficiency of an ASIC with the programmability of traditional network processors. This extraordinary efficiency translates into the most cost effective solution with the highest performance and lowest power consumption on the market. Xelerated's award-winning products target mission critical network equipment for the enterprise and Metro Ethernet markets. Xelerated has offices in Santa Clara, California, USA, and Stockholm, Sweden. Additional information is available at www.xelerated.com
About Atrica
Atrica, the Carrier Ethernet Company TM, provides a full range of Carrier Ethernet transport solutions to service providers delivering Metro Ethernet services. Atrica's Carrier Ethernet product suite combines the benefits of Ethernet technology - including its low-cost, proven scalability, ease of management, and ubiquity in the enterprise market - with innovations in traffic engineering, service management and scalability to meet the stringent demands of next-generation transport networks. With Atrica's Carrier Ethernet solutions, service providers can deliver the ultimate broadband triple play services experience to their business and residential customers over a single universal transport network, with guaranteed SLAs, sub-50ms network-wide resiliency, TDM traffic support, and point-and-click, centralized OAM&P. Privately held, Atrica is based in Santa Clara, Calif., with R&D facilities in Israel and the Untied States and business development and sales offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The company has received over $134 million in funding to date, from world-class venture capital firms, industry leaders, and seven global service providers. For more information, visit Atrica on the Web at www.atrica.com
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Katarina Erichs, Marketing Communications Manager, Xelerated