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News Release from: Ethernity Networks | Subject: ENET4000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 February 2008
FPGA hosts line card on a chip
The first release of the ENET4000 FPGA access flow processor is designed to fully support OLT EPON or GPON applications.
The PON OLT line-card-on-a-chip programme from Ethernity Networks aims to help system and semiconductor vendors to come up with a single-chip solution for the entire PON OLT line card solution The ENET architecture enables the support of a full PON OLT line card solution on a single FPGA, due to its inherent support for fragment frames reassembly, GEM header generation, logical queue support per virtual container at ONU side and can support HW acceleration for DBA
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The first release of the ENET4000 FPGA access flow processor is designed to fully support OLT EPON or GPON applications, and comes with user side interface selection of eight 1Gbit/s SGMIIs for EPON, or four 2.5Gbit/s SGMIIs for GPON together with XAUI 10G for backplane/uplink connectivity.
The ENET4000/PON access flow processor supports all the required networking and traffic management functionalities at 15Gbit/s, and includes integrated serdes for direct connectivity to fibre transceivers.
The new programme enables semiconductor vendors or system vendors that own PON OLT framer technology to use now the newly released ENET4000 solution connected to external PON framer, and later through the use of Ethernity's customisation services integrate the unique customer PON framer technology into the ENET 4000 original architecture.
The ENET4000 will start field trials at customer product during April 2008 and is now available for immediate design for new customers.
The design kit includes full software solution, schematics, data sheet and an ATCA evaluation board equipped with eight SGMII ports, or four 2.5Gbit/s SGMII ports together with two 1+1 10G XAUI interfaces.
The evaluation board can be ordered and is available for customer evaluation and tests.
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