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News Release from: IDT | Subject: 75K62134 NSE
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 October 2005
NSE forms a key part of MSC platform
Integrated Device Technology has announced that its 75K62134 network search engine (NSE) with look-aside interface (LA-I) is a key part in the Multi-Service Connect (MSC) platform from Avici Systems.
Integrated Device Technology (IDT ), a communications IC company and provider of network search engines (NSEs), has announced that its 9-Mbit 75K62134 NSE with look-aside interface (LA-I) is a key component in the Multi-Service Connect (MSC) platform from Avici Systems Currently shipping in production to leading networking equipment manufacturers, Avici's MSC platform is a family of linecards that enable carriers to converge multiple services, such as ATM, frame relay, voice and IP over their IP/MPLS networks
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The IDT 75K62134 NSE allowed Avici to realise several benefits, including simplified development efforts, accelerated time to market and advanced search capabilities in its MSC platform.
The IDT 75K62134 NSE offers several unique features that contribute to the converged networking capabilities supported by the Avici MSC platform.
Chief among these features is the multi-database lookup (MDL) instruction, which optimises the bandwidth of the LA-I interface by allowing up to eight different searches from eight different databases using the same search key and delivering up to four times the search performance, compared with competing solutions.
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The MDL instruction helps Avici achieve the high line-rate performance necessary to support the converged services of the MSC platform.
Additionally, IDT offers a complete design accelerator kit for the 75K62134 NSE, including a full suite of software and hardware development tools to speed time to market and reduce development costs.
Included in the kit is the system-level architectural model (SLAM), which is a simulation model of the 75K62134 NSE, allowing hardware designers to design and test their application code while the hardware is still being developed and debugged.
The development kit also includes initialisation, management and searching (IMS) and data-plane macros (DPM) software suites, which provide customers with a quick start on the control plane and application software development.
To further simplify the customer's development effort, IDT designed the SLAM, IMS, and DPM software tools to seamlessly integrate with the software environments of leading NPU vendors, such as Intel.
"When evaluating NSE solutions for our MSC platform, it was clear that the IDT offering provided the best combination of features, performance and development support to enable the convergence capabilities our customers need", said Jed Kaplan, Product Line Manager, Avici Systems.
"We were able to realise a major search-performance increase by using the MDL feature of the IDT 75K62134, and the SLAM development tool allowed us to significantly cut our development time".
"IDT is a pioneer in NSE technology, and our years of expertise in supplying customers with industry-leading products allow us to continue to achieve innovations, such as the MDL instruction and SLAM development tool", said Dave Cech, Director of Marketing for the IDT IP coprocessor division.
"Providing convergence networking services, such as those offered by the Avici MSC platform, requires the ability to do multiple look-ups per packet".
"The IDT 75K62134 enables Avici to do multiple searches with one command key, thereby simplifying system overhead and maximising efficiency".
Avici's MSC platform combines Avici's unique carrier-class routing technology and Intel IXP2400 network processors to provide carriers with any service any port (ASAP) flexibility to configure the linecard through software to support ATM, frame relay, POS/PPP or MPLS.
Using Avici's MSC platform, carriers can deliver legacy and new real-time services over IP while eliminating the cost and complexity of maintaining multiple parallel backbone networks.
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