CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS, June 21, 2004 - Xelerated, the price/performance leader in network processing, today announced that they have signed an agreement with Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE: IFX), the world's seventh-largest semiconductor company. The agreement is designed to meet the requirements of system providers developing solutions for the data aware transport network.
"Our cooperation with Xelerated has already garnered success with Tier-1 customers and we will further build on this momentum to address our customers' requirements. Xelerated's network processor meets our customer's requirements for deterministic protocol processing at low power and complements Infineon's framer and switching solutions with higher layer processing," said Christian Scherp, vice president of marketing, Wireline Communications, Infineon Technologies North America.
The patented technology developed by Xelerated is proven in enterprise, metro and transport applications which all share the key requirements of wire speed with low power consumption, small footprint and programmability to support future software additions. The highly efficient data flow architecture sets a new standard for cost/performance, delivering deterministic processing for high density Line and Service cards with up to 40 Gbps of aggregated user bandwidth, while dissipating less than 10 Watts and costing only $490.
Xelerated and Infineon are developing joint reference designs for customer solutions in the emerging data-aware transport market where Ethernet MPLS/VPLS-based data networking is added on top of SDH/Sonet or RPR. The companies will also collaborate on sales and marketing of these solutions, with Xelerated's X10q family of network processors being available from Infineon as part of its solutions offerings to its customers.
"I am very excited about the cooperation with Infineon. Our joint efforts have already paid off and by working with Infineon's world-wide sales force we will be able to go after an even larger customer base," says Johan Börje, CEO of Xelerated.
A jointly developed 10 Gbps Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) solution will be showcased in Infineon's booth #12347 at the Supercomm2004 exhibition, in Chicago on June 22-24. More information about the conference and exhibition can be found at www.supercomm2004.com
About Xelerated
Xelerated was founded in August 2000 to become the leading supplier of high performance network processors. 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. Xelerated's award-winning products target network equipment for the enterprise, metro and data-aware transport markets. The company has offices in Concord, Massachusetts, Santa Clara, California, and Stockholm, Sweden. Xelerated's investors include leading Venture Capitalists: Atlas Venture, Alta Partners and Startupfactory. Additional information is available at www.xelerated.com