Serdes bound for Chinese networking equipment

Huawei-3Com Co will use Analogix's high-speed communications ICs in its next-generation networking equipment.

Huawei-3Com Co, a recently formed joint venture between one of China's largest telecomms companies and a leading US networking vendor, will use Analogix's high-speed communications ICs in its next-generation networking equipment.

Huawei-3Com is the first major customer for Analogix, a startup company just introducing its initial products.

The Silicon Valley-based company also has a development team in Beijing, China.

Huawei-3Com plans to incorporate Analogix's D-PHY family of 5 and 10Gbit/s physical-layer transceivers (serdes) ICs into switch and router products now under development.

The D-PHY family, which includes both backplane and system-to-system serial interconnect products, uses advanced digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to eliminate the signal integrity problems that characterise high-speed data transmission over copper media.

Henry Tso, Huawei-3Com's Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development, said: "Like most system vendors, we are always trying to improve performance and drive down system costs.

The Analogix products' unique combination of advanced analogue and DSP signal-conditioning capabilities, plus a built-in compatibility with legacy materials and line cards, makes them ideal for both system upgrades and cost-effective new designs.

And their Beijing- based engineering team will foster excellent communication and local support as we deploy the products in our systems".

Kewei Yang, CEO of Analogix, said: "We look forward to a close working relationship with Huawei-3Com that will benefit us through a give-and-take of ideas as we bring our initial products to market.

Through Huawei-3Com, Analogix will gain early entry into the high-growth Asian networking market, which has seen virtually no impact from the economic downturn".

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