SAN DIEGO -- Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) [NASDAQ: AMCC], a leader in high-bandwidth silicon connectivity solutions for the world’s optical networks, today announced the Orinoco, the industry’s first fully-integrated framing and mapping device capable of aggregating 12 DS3/E3/EC-1s to an OC-12 (STS-12/STM-4). Orinoco represents a technology breakthrough in integration of 12 PLLs in a single device. This results in 80% savings in board space and helps network equipment manufacturers implement line-cards supporting up to 48 DS3 ports reducing time to market. Coupled with AMCC devices, such as Danube and Indus, Orinoco enables high-density aggregation of DS3s for optical transport over OC-48 and OC-192 to meet the rapidly growing demand for higher bandwidth in the metro region. Orinoco supports full-featured DS3/E3/STS-1E performance monitoring in both transmit and receive directions and offers full-duplex processing of SONET/SDH data streams with section, line and path overhead processing. Orinoco is ideally suited for WAN aggregation terminals, SONET/SDH multiplexers, digital cross-connects and switches.

“Orinoco is built on top of AMCC’s very successful Nile architecture. We had many customers using Nile with external PLL’s to smooth the DS3 clock. This application quickly became one of the largest volume drivers for Nile. Customers were asking us if we could eliminate the need for costly, hard to design with, PLL’s. We saw an opportunity to further integrate to protect our market and we jumped on it”, said Amit Banerjee, senior marketing manager at AMCC.

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