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News Release from: Altra Broadband
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 May 2002
Altra Broadband Joins XFP industry
association
Altra Broadband has joined the 10-Gigabit Small Form-factor Pluggable (XFP) Module Group, a module multisource agreement (MSA) association.
Ansoft subsidiary Altra Broadband has joined the 10-Gigabit Small Form-factor Pluggable (XFP) Module Group, a module multisource agreement (MSA) association The purpose of the group is to develop a common specification for multisourcing application-agnostic ultra-small-form-factor 10Gbit/s modules for the telecommunications, datacommunications and storage area network (SAN) markets
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The XFP association has experienced significant growth since its debut in March 2002, with 44 companies currently participating in the group.
Participation in the XFP Group allows Altra Broadband to gain valuable insight into the needs of the industry.
Participation will allow Altra to build strategic alliances with industry leaders, especially the XFP Founding-member companies Broadcom, Brocade, Emulex, Finisar, JDS Uniphase, Maxim Integrated Products, ONI Systems, ICS (a Sumitomo Electric company), Tyco Electronics and Velio.
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Altra Broadband is participating in the Group to promote the company's expertise in high-speed digital communications and to promote application of Ansoft products for 10Gbit/s PCB design.
The XFP Group will benefit from Altra Broadband's contribution of an accurate channel model for the electrical interconnect between the transceiver ASIC and the XFP module.
"Altra Broadband is pleased to be working with industry leaders and OEMs to define the high-speed interconnects and design practices for the new XFP specification", said Dr Lawrence Williams, vice president of technology at Altra Broadband.
"Our participation will demonstrate that successful application of Ansoft simulation software can accelerate XFP design and acceptance".
"Our experience with the successful demonstration of this technology shows that XFP is a viable telecommunications, data communications and SAN solution", said Bob Snively, Brocade's principal engineer and chairman of the group.
"We are very pleased with the growth of the association to date, and are happy to announce Altra Broadband's commitment to our collective vision for 10Gbit/s solutions.
We have already distributed the first draft of the specification to our member companies for technical review.
Our next key objective is to develop, by August, a preliminary XFP specification for wider review".
The XFP Group is composed of networking, system, optical module, semiconductor and connector companies from the telecommunications, data communications and SAN markets.
The association is dedicated to technology and standards development for ultra-small-form-factor 10Gbit/s communications modules.
Such modules feature an electrical interface called XFI, which removes the complexity and power associated with placing electrical transceivers inside currently available modules, resulting in significant space, power and cost savings to module suppliers and system manufacturers.
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