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News Release from: Lightstorm Networks | Subject: Brooklyn-10
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 September 2007
Switch IC is made for Carrier Ethernet
The Brooklyn-10 is billed as the first Ethernet switch application specific standard product purpose-built for the carrier market.
Lightstorm Networks has announced the availability of its first product, the Brooklyn-10, a carrier-grade 20Gb Layer 2 switch with support for next generation carrier Ethernet services for PBB-TE (PBT), T-MPLS, and the latest OAM standards It is the first Ethernet switch application specific standard product (ASSP) purpose-built for the carrier market and developed in partnership with leading carriers over several years
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Brooklyn-10 offers the latest carrier Ethernet services at wire-rate speed without the requirement of complex NPU or FPGA programming - an industry first.
The time is right for purpose-built Ethernet silicon.
Carrier-grade Ethernet is needed to leverage the cost and simplicity of Ethernet, but to be effectively used by carriers it must have the network scalability, QoS, monitoring and protection capabilities enabled by prior generations of technologies such as ATM and Sonet.
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Driven by emerging standards, carrier networks are now rapidly adopting a network model that utilises new packet technologies - such as multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) and carrier Ethernet standards such as provider backbone bridging (PBB) and PBB-TE (PBT) - at the metro edge and thru the optical core.
Combined with a robust silicon ecosystem, Lightstorm is designed to take Ethernet and MPLS further into the most demanding networks that require guaranteed service delivery, unprecedented scalability and high reliability.
"The Carrier Ethernet market requires significantly different features than the enterprise market".
"The business models between the two segments are very different where the carriers look to use their networks to generate monthly recurring revenue and enterprise users generally view their network as a one-time purchase fixed asset".
"Lightstorm Networks has recognised this distinct difference and with the Brooklyn-10 chip has introduced an Ethernet switch in silicon which services the needs of the carriers for network scalability, OAM, QoS, and protection", says Eve Griliches, Programme Manager at IDC.
"Lightstorm Networks introduction of the Brooklyn-10 is well timed to correspond to the new wave of designs that OEMs are undertaking to address the carriers need for Ethernet based services".
To-date, industry solutions have forced the use of costly FPGAs or NPUs, or have relied on OEM developed ASICs.
Another approach has been to use enterprise Ethernet silicon and leverage control plane processors or FPGAs to implement basic carrier services.
Although this approach was the only low cost option for early adopters, it lacked scalability and robust functionality.
With Lightstorm's exclusive focus on the carrier market, its suite of silicon, software and hardware products enable the next wave of Ethernet services, providing OEMs and TEMs with the best building blocks for rapid market introduction of new products in the carrier Ethernet market.
"As the demand for carrier-grade Ethernet adoption continues to steadily gain traction - Insight Research projects total US public Ethernet revenues will grow to over $5 billion by 2012 - carriers need a solution scalable and powerful enough to meet their needs", says Bryan Campbell, CEO and Founder of Lightstorm Networks.
"We take the ease-of-use approach from the hardware-driven enterprise Ethernet silicon market and apply it to a more service-driven model for the carrier market, ensuring significant cost, scalability and reuse advantages for our customers".
The Brooklyn-10 Carrier Ethernet Switch is a carrier-grade Layer 2 switch with an integrated 20G traffic manager.
It delivers efficient and intelligent performance without the need for data path programming required by today's complex NPUs.
The Brooklyn-10 offers significant network scalability, the latest Metro Ethernet Forum-defined QoS capabilities, OAM support and protection.
It is a complete PBB, PBB-TE, VPLS and VPWS solution for the carrier Ethernet market.
The Brooklyn-10 is complimented with a robust carrier Ethernet software suite which leverages a well defined carrier Ethernet API and includes development tools for rapid device configuration and register viewing.
To aid in OEM time to market a complete hardware development environment is also available.
The Brooklyn-10, carrier Ethernet software suite, and hardware evaluation platform is sampling now; volume pricing is US $250.00.
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