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EZchip Technologies and Dune Networks Offer Best in Class Silicon Solutions to Power Service-Aware Switches and Routers
Coupling of NP-2 Processor and SAND Chip-Set
Offers Most Feature-Rich, Cost-Effective Chip-Set
for Implementing Line Cards and Switch Blades
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 23, 2004—
EZchip Technologies (a subsidiary of LanOptics Ltd., NASDAQ:LNOP),
a fabless semiconductor company providing high-speed network
processors, and Dune Networks Inc., a leading provider of switching
fabric and traffic management solutions, today announced a
complementary product offering that provides the silicon core of next
generation switches and routers. EZchip's NP-2 network processor
coupled with Dune's SAND chip-set for traffic management and switching
fabric provide the most feature-rich and cost effective chip-set for
implementing line-cards and switch blades. The two companies will be
offering silicon that has been tested and proven for seamless
interoperability as well as a joint Advanced Telecommunication Compute
Architecture (ATCA) reference platform. The joint ATCA solution will
be available in Q1, 2005.
EZchip's network processors coupled with Dune's traffic manager
and switch fabric provide all the key silicon capabilities required to
build switch/router systems with unmatched processing and
quality-of-service (QoS). Furthermore, since the respective devices
are highly integrated, the resulting system features minimal component
count and cost. A typical line card will employ a single NP-2 network
processor and SAND-FAP10V traffic manager/fabric interface device. The
two devices are interconnected via an industry-standard SPI4.2
interface. Cost sensitive Ethernet applications utilize a lower cost
model of NP-2, the NP-2/10L, which excludes NP-2's integrated traffic
manager, instead using the FAP10V traffic manager to provide
end-to-end rate and QoS guarantees. Multi-port SONET/SDH applications
take advantage of the traffic management function integrated in both
the FAP10V and NP-2 to provide QoS and system-wide end-to-end QoS for
up to 192 ports.
"The combination of the Dune and EZchip offerings provides
customers with a winning solution comprised of the best in class
networking silicon," said Eli Fruchter, President and CEO of EZchip.
"OEM vendors get the flexibility to use the same hardware and software
design to target a variety of applications and price points. A line
card with a single NP-2 from EZchip and single FAP10V from Dune
provides solutions for 5-Gigabit, 10-Gigabit and over-subscribed
10-Gigabit throughputs at varying degrees of service levels through
different assembly options of pin and software compatible NP-2
models."
"Additional scalability is offered by the FAP10/20V via its mesh
configurations," noted Dune Networks' CEO Eyal Dagan. "Using the NP-2
and FAP10/20V in such a configuration, thus avoiding the need for
fabric devices, provides a highly integrated, fully non-blocking and
lowest power solution up to 60Gbps, especially important for transport
applications."
Both companies will provide customers with a seamlessly
interconnected reference platform based on the ATCA standard.
Leveraging this platform, equipment manufacturers can configure a
network switch or router reference platform to conduct thorough
development, integration and testing before building their products.
An application note detailing the joint solution options and reference
platform is available.
About Dune Networks
Dune Networks (http://www.dunenetworks.com/) is a leading provider
of intelligent and scalable switching fabrics and traffic management
devices for Internet and storage networks. Founded in October 2000 by
a team with extensive networking system level experience, as well as
in-depth expertise in communication theory and silicon design, Dune
Networks is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has an R&D
center in Yakum Industrial Park, Israel. The company successfully
completed a $24M first round of funding in 2002.
About EZchip Technologies
EZchip Technologies (a subsidiary of LanOptics Ltd., NASDAQ:LNOP)
is a fabless semiconductor company providing high-speed network
processors. EZchip's breakthrough TOPcore(R) technology provides both
packet processing and classification on a single chip at wire speed.
EZchip's single-chip solutions are used for building networking
equipment with extensive savings in chip count, power and cost. Highly
flexible 7-layer processing enables a wide range of applications to
deliver advanced services for the metro, carrier edge and core and
enterprise backbone. For more information on EZchip, visit our web
site at http://www.ezchip.com.
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Reform Act of 1995: This release contains forward looking statements
that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, but not
limited to, the impact of competitive products, product demand and
market acceptance risks, customer order cancellations, reliance on key
strategic alliances, fluctuations in operating results, delays in
development of highly-complex products and other risks detailed from
time to time in LNOP filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. These risks could cause the Company's actual results for
2004 and beyond to differ materially from those expressed in any
forward looking statements made by, or on behalf of LNOP.
Contact:
EZchip
Daureen Green, +972-4-959-6677
dgreen@ezchip.com
or
Dune Networks, Israel
Michal Kahan, +972-9-961-5222
michal@dunenetworks.com
or
Fusion Public Relations
Emilio Dabul, 212-651-4216
emilio.dabul@fusionpr.com
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