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News Release from: Intel Corporation | Subject: IXC1100 and LV Xeon
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 September 2002
Control-plane and services processors
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Intel Corp has two new processors aimed at communications equipment manufacturers.
Intel Corp has two new processors for communications equipment manufacturers The Intel IXC1100 control-plane processor, is the company's first to be based on its XScale technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"With these leading-edge processors, equipment manufacturers developing infrastructure for intelligent networks have cost-effective, versatile options for delivering high-performance distributed processing functionality 'closer to the wire', enabling easier implementation of rich services for service providers".
The new Intel IXC1100 control-plane processor is designed to provide efficient processing of control and management tasks within a very tight power budget specifically for line cards that act as the high traffic connectivity and termination points within a networking platform.
The Intel IXC1100 control-plane processor's integrated system-on-a-chip design incorporates an Intel XScale core that operates at up to 533MHz, providing superior performance within a small footprint that conserves valuable board real estate.
The combination of the IXC1100 control-plane processor and Intel network processors on a line card enables a complete solution for control- and data-plane processing.
Intel's control-plane and network processors incorporate Intel XScale cores that are compatible with the ARM V5TE instruction set, enabling creation of highly flexible software and hardware designs using a common tool suite.
The IXC1100 control-plane processor and optimised software are initially targeted for wireless infrastructure equipment, such as basestation controllers and radio network controllers and multiservice switches.
Intel is also introducing the new LV Intel Xeon processor, which leads the extensive line of Intel architecture processors for communications applications.
The LV Intel Xeon processor features Intel Hyper-Threading technology and a maximum performance of 1.6GHz, while providing reduced power consumption.
The combination of industry-leading performance, reduced power consumption, and software-based upgradeability make this processor ideal for applications and services blades that handle the compute-intensive tasks of accounting, billing and policy-tracking needed for network services.
With the LV Xeon processor, system architects can design equipment with performance headroom for rich network services while staying within a 30W processor thermal envelope.
Validated with the Intel E7500 chipset and dual-processor capable, the LV Xeon processor is designed for intelligent network applications that require the highest level of processing performance along with high memory bandwidth and capacity, and high levels of I/O throughput.
"The Low Voltage Intel Xeon processor provides high I/O bandwidth and performance in a manageable thermal envelope", said Bryan Murphy, vice president of engineering, Kontron America.
"This processor allows us to deliver customers a high-performing networking solution in a form factor specifically engineered to meet their particular design challenges, and constant cost and time-to-market pressures".
Intel's communications developer programmes support the entire range of Intel's communications processing product portfolio with complementary silicon, software, tools and board level products.
Member companies of Intel's IXA Developer Network and the Applied Computing Platform Provider programmes deliver products that are optimised for Intel's communications processing products, providing customers with time-to-market-accelerating options at various levels of integration.
The Intel IXC1100 control plane processor will be generally available in early Q4.
The MSRP for the 533MHz, commercial-temperature-range version begins at $55 in 1000-unit quantities.
The Low Voltage Intel Xeon processor is currently available for $355 in one-thousand-unit quantities.
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