Huawei-3Com Selects the NP-1c Network Processor from EZchip to Power Multiple Products
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 28, 2004—
EZchip Technologies (a subsidiary of LanOptics Ltd.,
NASDAQ:LNOP), a fabless semiconductor company providing high-speed
network processors, today announced that Huawei-3Com has selected
EZchip's NP-1c 10-Gigabit network processor for its mid-range and
high-end switches to provide advanced protocol processing and layer
5-7 services. Development of the NP-1c blades is already under way at
Huawei-3Com with product shipments slated for 2005.
Huawei-3Com is a joint venture company established by Huawei and
3Com Corporation. Huawei-3Com works on researching, developing, and
manufacturing data communications products. The company offers
enterprises of all sizes and public sector organizations in China and
Japan a full portfolio of customized IP-based networking solutions and
services that are innovative, feature-rich and offer superior return
on investment. In the rest of the world, the company will bring its
products to market through strategic OEM relationships.
"Huawei-3Com is providing a rich product offering to address a
wide range of applications and EZchip's NP-1c adds the required
flexibility to our products," said Xiangying Cao, Vice President of
Huawei-3Com. "Through its outstanding integration, simple programming
model and advanced services capabilities we can bring new features
quickly to the market. The versatility of EZchip's network processors
allows us to use this technology in a variety of systems and
applications."
"Huawei-3Com's selection of NP-1c is of particular importance to
EZchip because Huawei-3Com is a significant networking player and is
utilizing our network processors across multiple products," said Amir
Eyal, Vice President Business Development of EZchip. "As of today,
close to 40 customers have selected NP-1c for its huge savings in
chip-count, power dissipation and cost. Several of these customers,
like Huawei-3Com, are using the NP-1c in multiple products and
utilizing its highly flexible 7-layer processing capabilities. Our
upcoming NP-2 builds on the NP-1c's success and is already seeing
significant customer traction. The addition of traffic management and
Gigabit ports, coupled with an offering of 10-Gigabit and 5-Gigabit
models makes NP-2 a powerful single-chip proposition for the
high-volume switch/router line card market."
About EZchip's Network Processors
EZchip provides highly integrated network processors that
incorporate several functions typically implemented in separate chips,
into a single-chip solution. These include 10-Gigabit and 5-Gigabit
duplex processing, classification search engines, two traffic
managers, ten 1-Gigabit and one 10-Gigabit Ethernet MACs.
EZchip's NP-1c and NP-2 network processor utilize DRAM for lookup
tables to perform highly flexible, 10-Gigabit, wire-speed classifying.
No external classifiers, CAM nor SRAM are required. This unmatched
integration results in significant advantages to the system designer
in chip count, power dissipation, headroom, design simplicity and
cost.
The NP-2 offers extensive traffic management capabilities on the
ingress and egress paths through a full-duplex queuing mechanism. This
enables per-flow frame queuing, rate control, traffic shaping and
intelligent congestion management on outgoing traffic on all NP-2
interfaces.
Networking equipment based on NP-1c and NP-2 can be programmed to
deliver switching, routing, and QoS as well as stateful session
processing and 7-layer packet payload manipulation for a variety of
applications simply through software running on the network
processors.
Line card applications include metro switches, edge and core
routers, enterprise core switches, 3G aggregation routers and storage
switches. Services card applications include multi-gigabit firewalls,
Virtual Private Network appliances, intrusion detection appliances,
server load balancing switches and network analyzers.
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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