Applied Micro Circuits Corp (AMCC) of Sunnyvale, California, a $405 milllion-capitalised supplier of integrated circuits and storage components used for processing, transporting and storing information, including: Integrated communications products used generally in routers, optical and digital cross-connects, voice and media gateways, ADMs, MSAPs, multi-service switches, DSLAMs, wireless base stations and access points. Storage products such as equipment used in controllers, switches, adapters, servers and RAID systems.
Announced that MergeOptics of Berlin, a developer of highly integrated components and modules for optical communications, has chosen AMCC's 10 Gigabit Ethernet PHY IC technology for use in high-speed optical X2 module connectivity solutions.
AMCC said the PHYs were chosen for parallel optical interconnects in enterprise communication and networking environments because of their ability to address the increasing demand for multiple services, greater transport capacity, dynamic networking and management simplicity.
MergeOptics offers a broad range of 10 Gbit/s transmission module solutions, both fixed wavelength and tunable, and supplies a range of transceivers and transponders meeting XENPAK, XPACK, XZ, XFP and SFP+- specifications, for transmission distances between 300 metres and 80 km. MergeOptics says it has shipped more than 75,000 10 Gbit/s transmission modules worldwide.
AMCC quoted MergeOptics CEO, Dag Neumeuer, as saying: "Carriers demand next-generation equipment that integrates the latest technology and delivers cost-effective transport of Internet traffic with unparalleled precision and quality of service". "AMCC's low power and robust PHY technology offers MergeOptics the ability to integrate the latest functionality into optical modules so that carriers have the ability to quickly upgrade their services and network capacity".
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