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"Tiber is the result of AMCC's alliance with Cisco announced in April 2001," said John LoMedico, vice president of marketing, framer products, at AMCC. "RPR is gaining acceptance among carriers and through this alliance we are further accelerating its availability. Premiering Tiber not only further demonstrates AMCC's commitment to RPR, but significantly compliments our existing portfolio to provide a complete solution for the metro market." "We are glad to see this level of integration work being done with SRP, as this integration will make it easier for vendors to create a broader range of RPR products. AMCC's Tiber is a clear example of world class support for SRP in a single device," said Roland Acra, group vice president, Internet Routing Group at Cisco Systems. "The combination of intellectual property from AMCC and Cisco allows customers to easily adopt SRP and benefit from more bandwidth efficient services with carrier class reliability." Tiber provides OC-48 transceivers with Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) to interface directly with optics modules. OC-48c SONET/SDH overhead processors are provided for full-duplex operation of mapping/demapping of SRP packets within the SONET/SDH payload. The packets are mapped using byte synchronous HDLC frame delineation and transparency processing. "RPR introduces a simple, bandwidth efficient, cost effective and robust technique to data networks," said Amit Banerjee, director of marketing, framer products, at AMCC. "Systems using Tiber can operate in SRP mode or support regular POS mode for IP traffic for SONET rings. AMCC actively participates in the IEEE 802.17 standards committee and will work with customers to provide standards compliant solutions when the standard arrives." The built-in OC-48 transceivers with clock and data recovery (CDR) provides a direct interface to the two OC-48 optics modules. Tiber offers full section, line and path overhead processing on both the transmit and receive sides, while supporting framing, scrambling/descrambling, alarm-signal insertion/detection and bit-interleaved processing for terminating and sourcing the SONET/SDH frames and mapping/demapping of SRP packets in the SONET/SDH payload. Two complete SRP MAC-layer processors are included in the device. A dedicated embedded micro sequencer controls the SRP Fairness Algorithm for each RAC. A Transit Buffer (SSRAM) interface, provided for each RAC, provides support for up to 9 MB of packet storage in each direction. Tiber communicates with the host via two Flexbus(TM)-3/SPI-3 interfaces, each with three transmit FIFOs (Control, High, Low) and one receive FIFO. Transmit packets are muxed into the associated RAC processor on a strict priority basis with priority backpressure from the RAC processor. On ring wraps, transmit data packets from both Flexbus-3/SPI-3 interfaces are sent to the active RAC processor. Control packets are always sent to their associated ring. Tiber can also be configured (with the RAC processor in transparent mode) for mapping PoS packets directly into an SONET STS48C SPE or SDH VC-4-16c. In this mode, Tiber provides provision and status registers to support SONET/SDH compliant APS. Pricing and Availability Tiber will be sampling to develop partners in April 2002. Pricing available upon request. About AMCC AMCC designs, develops, manufactures and markets high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon solutions empowering intelligent optical networks. AMCC utilizes a combination of digital, mixed-signal and high frequency analog design expertise coupled with system-level knowledge and multiple silicon process technologies to offer integrated circuit products that enable the transport of voice and data over fiber optic networks. The company's system solution portfolio includes switch fabric, traffic management, network processor, framer/mapper, PHY and PMD devices that address the high-performance needs of the evolving intelligent optical network. AMCC's corporate headquarters and wafer fabrication facilities are located in San Diego. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our Web site at http://www.amcc.com. Forward-Looking Statements The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the products discussed in this press release are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the products would not be successfully or timely, developed or manufactured or achieve market acceptance, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2001, and in other filings of the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement. Product photos, datasheets and application notes are available upon request. AMCC is a registered trademark of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. Note: A photo is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.031102/bb1
Contact: Applied Micro Circuits Corp., San Diego
Karen Hartz, 858/535-3436
khartz@amcc.com
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Mary Pund, 858/535-6523
maryp@amcc.com
or
The Ardell Group, San Diego
Angela Edgerton, 858/792-2941
angela@ardellgroup.com
or
Katy Tanghe, 858/792-2910
katy@ardellgroup.com
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