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Press ReleaseEZchip Provides Production-Ready Code for its Network Processors Implementing EPON/GPON Applications
Yokneam, Israel, September 9, 2009 -- EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:EZCH), a fabless semiconductor company providing Ethernet network processors, today announced that it is offering its customers production-ready EPON/GPON data-plane code for the NPA, its new family of network processors targeting Ethernet access applications. The EPON/GPON package is the first in a series of Carrier Ethernet applications that EZchip will make available to customers deploying its high-speed and access network processors (NPUs). This will help customers expedite their system products’ time-to-market and simplify their development efforts.
EZchip’s NPA network processor, now sampling, has secured designs for EPON and GPON Optical Line Terminal (OLT) central office systems with major network equipment vendors. The NPA coupled with the EPON/GPON software package provides customers with a complete data-plane platform for implementing their OLT systems. It utilizes the programmable NPA for enabling flexible platforms that can be field-upgraded with new features through in-service software updates as new services are being required.
The solution features packet classification and processing, fine-grained access control, hierarchical traffic management with per-subscriber, flow or class Service Level Agreement (SLA) enforcement, enhanced network management and monitoring (OAM) and timing synchronization (Sync Ethernet and IEEE 1588v2). The provided code is standards compliant and conforms to all relevant specifications. In addition, EZchip is offering its customers optional professional services to add features and tailor the code to their specific architectures for enhancing their product differentiation.
With this offering EZchip provides EPON/GPON system vendors with unmatched scalability and flexibility. Using EZchip’s NPA family of access NPUs, their solutions easily scale in bandwidth and port count for building pizza boxes or line cards with 1-4 EPON/GPON ports and Gigabit or 10-Gigabit uplinks. Using EZchip’s high-speed network processors, the NP-3 or NP-4, the solution can scale further to 16-32 EPON/GPON ports per box or line card. All EZchip’s NPUs are software compatible enabling easy code migration when scaling the system capacity or building different classes of products. EZchip provides the production quality software along with source code and detailed documentation, allowing system vendors to easily and quickly introduce new and differentiating features as well as support changing standards over time. EZchip also offers its customers optional professional services for implementing these software changes.
The EPON/GPON software package for OLT will be available in October. EZchip will make available production-quality code for additional applications in the Carrier Ethernet space over time.
About the NPA The NPA is a highly-flexible network processor with integrated hierarchical traffic management that provides system vendors with a powerful, low-cost solution for a variety of carrier access applications, including:
The NPA integrates several functions normally found in several chips to allow for simple, low-power and cost effective access system designs:
The NPA is offered in three footprint and software compatible models:
For more technical details on the NPA visit www.ezchip.com/p_npa.htm.
About EZchip EZchip is a fabless semiconductor company that provides Ethernet network processors for networking equipment. EZchip provides its customers with solutions that scale from 1-Gigabit to 100-Gigabits per second with a common architecture and software across all products. EZchip's network processors provide the flexibility and integration that enable triple-play data, voice and video services in systems that make up the new Carrier Ethernet networks. Flexibility and integration make EZchip's solutions are ideal for building systems for a wide range of applications in telecom networks, enterprise backbones and data centers. For more information on our company, visit the web site at http://www.ezchip.com.
"Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains forward looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the impact of competitive products, product demand and market acceptance risks, customer order cancellations, reliance on key strategic alliances, fluctuations in operating results, delays in development of highly-complex products and other risks detailed from time to time in EZchip Semiconductor filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These risks could cause the Company's actual results for 2009 and beyond to differ materially from those expressed in any forward looking statements made by, or on behalf of EZchip Semiconductor.
Company Contact: Daureen Green EZchip Technologies Ltd. (Israel) , +972-4-959-6677
IR Contact: Ehud Helft / Fiona Darmon CCGK Investor Relations Tel: (US) 1 646 797 2868 / 1 646 201 9246
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