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News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: 10 Gbase-LR Xenpak optical transceiver
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 May 2002
Transceiver works in 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Agilent Technologies has demonstrated interoperability between its 10 Gigabit serial Ethernet Xenpak optical transceiver and XAUI SerDes from PMC-Sierra, Marvell Technology Group and TI.
Agilent Technologies has successfully demonstrated interoperability between its 10 Gigabit serial Ethernet (GbE) Xenpak optical transceiver and XAUI SerDes from PMC-Sierra, Marvell Technology Group and Texas Instruments Network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) can now focus on the system level aspects of their design rather than verifying connectivity between the transceiver and SerDes chip, which translates to fewer design iterations and faster time to market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Providing interoperability between Agilent's 10 GbE Xenpak optical transceiver with these networking IC leaders provides a true 10 Gigabit PHY Solution for today's leading edge network equipment designs", said Michael Huether, Director of Marketing Europe, Middle East, Africa, Semiconductor Products Division.
"Enterprise switch and router OEMs are anxious to deploy 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology as it will offer their customers greater bandwidth, speed and reduced costs".
The Agilent 10 GbE Xenpak optical transceiver demonstrated full interoperability through the XAUI interface with the XAUI SerDes from PMC-Sierra (PM8355), Marvell (88X2040) and Texas Instruments (TLK3114SA).
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The XAUI SerDes from all three manufacturers support the XAUI interface.
Agilent was the first to demonstrate a 1310 serial 10 GbE Xenpak transceiver at last year's ECOC trade show in Amsterdam.
Agilent is developing reference designs with leading XAUI chip manufacturers in order that NEMs can quickly implement a 10 GbE port with the assurance that it will work at maximum performance the first time.
Applications for 10 GbE include campus trunking, data aggregation, enterprise to metropolitan uplinks, equipment room and exchange point-to-point links.
The Agilent 10 GbE Xenpak optical transceiver is an "intelligent" LAN PHY that incorporates the complete physical layer functionality from the optical interface to the XAUI (four channels at 3.125Gbit/s) electrical interface, including both 8/10 B and 64/66 B coding and decoding.
It has been designed to the IEEE 802.3ae 10 GbE standard and the Xenpak multisource agreement (MSA), cofounded by Agilent.
The 1310nm serial transceiver has a range of 10km, and uses Agilent's own uncooled, directly modulated laser technology for unmatched 10 Gigabit performance without the need for traditional modulators, coolers, or complex optical multiplexing.
Agilent is the clear volume leader in the optical Ethernet market.
The company has been a major contributor to the 10 Gigabit IEEE802.3ae standard.
For example, the 64/66 B encoding scheme, which greatly reduces overhead for transmitting IP data streams, was developed at Agilent Labs.
Agilent is currently sampling the 10 Gbase-LR Xenpak optical transceiver to leading NEMs, with production volumes planned for later this year. Request a free brochure from Avago Technologies ...
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