STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 30, 2008 - Xelerated, the price/performance leader in network processing today announced a new high performance NPU targeting service routers and advanced service edge applications and General Availability of its fully featured Metro Ethernet Application.
The current X11 product family with X11-s200, X11-d200 and X11-d240 is used in more than 60 customer designs for Carrier Ethernet switches, Ethernet-over-Sonet in transport platforms, GPON/EPON OLTs, DSLAM aggregation systems and routers.
The new device, named X11-d240t, adds processing capacity for very advanced high performance systems such as service routers and advanced service edge applications. The X11-d240t has been developed in close cooperation with Tier I customers that are planning to deploy programmable 24 Gbps full duplex single chip solutions in sophisticated networking systems. The X11-d240t delivers a full feature set without any performance degradation and still maintains significant headroom for future feature requirements.
Xelerated's Metro Ethernet Application (MEA) is now generally available. MEA has been developed together with Xelerated's customers and it is today the basis for multiple production systems. MEA provides a feature rich and standards compliant application and serves as a foundation for network equipment vendors to use either as-is for production systems or as a basis for enhancement with customer proprietary and differentiating features. This feature-rich and scaleable application is fully integrated into Xelerated's "Dataflow Architecture" and is supported across the entire X11 product family.
A complete Carrier Ethernet Layer 2 feature set is supported which includes Provider Bridging (802.1ad), Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB, 802.1ah), Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE, 802.1Qay) and VPLS, as well as Layer 3 features including MPLS LER/LSR, IPV4/IPV6 routing, L2/L3 VPN, Multicast, OAM (802.1ag), IP tunneling, ACLs and diagnostics SW. MEA provides hardware acceleration of OAM functions such as continuity check (IEEE 802.1ag), automatic learning/aging and fast table updates. MEA supports a robust C-API for integration with custom developed software and runs on all members of the X11 NPU family as well as on Xelerated's developments kits and Harpoon Metro Ethernet Switch.
"I have witnessed many customer successes based on MEA. MEA provides a rapid return on investment and fast time-to-market. Typically a customer gains between 6-12 months in time-to-market and saves somewhere between $1-2 million in SW development cost", said Thomas Eklund VP Marketing and Business Development at Xelerated. "
"Xelerated is part of an emerging trend among merchant semiconductor companies to use their systems expertise to set themselves apart from their competition. The introduction of the X11-d240t and MEA shows a clear commitment to enabling feature rich, scalable, wire-speed Carrier Ethernet platforms for Xelerated's Tier One customer base. The reduced development costs, faster time to market, and investment protection these products deliver are good news for customers", said Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group.
About Xelerated
Xelerated's award-winning products target mission-critical network equipment for the Metro, Access and High-end Enterprise markets.. The company 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 unprecedented combination of speed and programmability enables network equipment vendors to build carrier-class systems at a competitive price point. Together with a complete set of supporting products such as an industry leading Metro Ethernet application, reference design platforms and a comprehensive set of software tools, this has resulted in Xelerated's network processors being incorporated as vital components in network equipment around the world where the majority of the leading Tier I Carrier Ethernet customers have strategically selected Xelerated's family of NPUs. The company has offices in Santa Clara (California), Tel Aviv (Israel), Beijing (China) and Stockholm (Sweden).
Press Contact:
Thomas Eklund
VP Marketing and Business Development
Xelerated
Phone: +46 8 506 25 775