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Networking Hardware
News Release from: Acal Microsystems | Subject: Interphase iNAV series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 July 2003
Gateway-on-a-slot streamlines carrier
class design
A new family of building blocks for embedded communication subsystems provides a large menu of options and network interfaces to simplify system design and enable faster integration.
A new family of building blocks for embedded communication subsystems provides a large menu of options and network interfaces to simplify system design and enable faster integration The Interphase iNAV series of intelligent communications I/O solutions is led by the iNAV 4000 network processor blade, and supported by the iNAV 3000 telecomms carrier blade
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The iNAV 4000 is an application-ready module with fully developed lower layer network protocol stacks and a wide variety of the protocol interworking functions needed for broadband applications.
Offering simultaneous IP routing and ATM switching, the iNAV 4000 has interworking capabilities for a large array of other network protocols including PPP, packets over Sonet (POS), inverse multiplexing for ATM (IMA), and many more.
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By performing protocol interworking onboard, the iNAV 4000 replaces legacy interworking solutions that require an entire system of modules, resulting in a five-fold improvement in the price/performance ratio of gateway equipment.
Powered by the Wintegra WinPath packet processor yielding million-packet processing per second, the iNAV 4000 drastically reduces the equipment costs, equipment real estate, and integration time necessary for deploying network convergence applications.
The iNAV 4000 saves telecomms OEMs the substantial development time and resources that are typically required for this kind of functionality.
The iNAV 3000 provides OEMs with a foundation for narrowband applications that enable customised subsystems performing computing, digital signal processing (DSP), or I/O functions.
The iNAV 3000 is equipped with dual PMC/PTMC expansion sites for maximised per-slot density, enabling telecom OEMs the flexibility to create customised subsystems to perform a wide array of applications on a single server slot.
The Interphase iSPAN communications controllers provide a wide selection of intelligent communications I/O interfaces to complement the iNAV communications blades, including T1/E1/J1, serial, T3/E3, OC-3/STM-1, and Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet in the future.
Robust onboard features of the iNAV 3000 include an eight-port Fast Ethernet switch, a 2048 DS-0 TDM switch, and a H.110 interface to enhance the capabilities of the PMC modules.
The iNAV 3000 provides OEMs with a basis for building specialised subsystems to support virtually any telecomms application.
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