100G OTN Muxponder solution with 10-40G framer/mapper PHY and OTU4 multiplexer

Applied Micro Circuits Corp., has given option to high-speed optical communication equipment designers to choose a standard devices instead of FPGA for designing Optical Transport Networks (OTN), by unveiling what it calls industry's first standard 100 Gigabit per second (100G) Muxponder (multiplexing transponder) solution for OTN. The 100G Muxponder can multiplex combination of 10G and 40G Ethernet to legacy OC192/OC768 SONET/SDH, as well as 8G and 10G Fibre Channel. The 100G Muxponder solution is designed to help network operators expand the capacity of the Internet by a factor of ten to support the exponentially growing bandwidth demand as a result of high definition video, mobile, social networking, video conferencing and cloud computing traffic, according to Applied Micro.

The solution unifies AppliedMicro's TPO404 OTU4 multiplexer and PQ60T 10-40G mapper/framer with a common Application Programming Interface (API). It also provides interoperability with all major forward error correction (FEC) schemes in long-haul optical network architectures.

"AppliedMicro provides a common software API for both its SoftSilicon and ASSP solutions which makes it efficient to integrate system software and maintenance efforts onto one platform or line card," said Lars Pedersen, CTO of AppliedMicro's TPACK A/S subsidiary. "System design for 100G platforms is greatly simplified and streamlined with a common API, and it provides software investment protection for future muxponder upgrades as AppliedMicro's highly integrated silicon devices come to market offering even greater cost-reduction potential."

AppliedMicro says its PQ60T is the industry's highest density, lowest power 10G/40G Optical Transport Network (OTN) framer/PHY System-On-a-Chip (SoC) for Carrier Ethernet router and WDM transport systems. PQ60T additionally achieves unprecedented low power levels while providing higher capacity for next-generation systems. AppliedMicro provides complete reference platforms for 100G blades and systems.

The other such standard processors for the similar application available in the market for OTN are PM5420 HyPHY 20G High-Capacity Single-Chip Multi-Rate/Multi-Protocol PHY, and PM5426 HyPHY 10G Optical Access Multi-Rate / Multi-Protocol PHY from PMC Sierra. However AMCC's PHY devices can handle higher data rate compared to PM5420 and PM5426.

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