AMCC Offers Grooming Chip

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) [NASDAQ:AMCC] today announced Zambezi (S8710), an STS-1 cross-connect grooming fabric designed for line card use. Targeted for add/drop MUX systems, digital cross-connects and multi-service switches, this device is optimized to enable 10Gb/s, 20Gb/s, and 40Gb/s line cards to be built with an integrated first and last, or Nth, stage grooming fabric. This solution is capable of switching from the STS-1 level up to and including STS-768c traffic, including arbitrarily concatenated traffic. Zambezi’s single-stage, non-blocking, switch architecture, easily enables broadcast and multicast configurations. In addition, the device offers an industry-leading low power dissipation of 8W (typical). Dual 768x768 (40Gb/s) logical-partitioning of the internal switch fabric and dual-casted IO interfaces allow a single element to be used as the 1st and Nth stages of a larger, multi-stage, CLOS switch. Zambezi is unique in offering dual-casted I/Os, allowing for seamless switching between the redundant core-stage switch elements. Sixteen I/O ports can be dual-casted allowing this device to directly drive and monitor redundant, core-stage switch elements. Zambezi can also be used stand-alone or as the core stage element in a multi-stage fabric as a 1536 x 1536 (80Gb/S) fully non-blocking switch. Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) For more information on Supercomm 2001, please visit the Light Reading Supercomm 2001 Site.