AimValley Picks Fujitsu

LANGEN, Germany -- Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME), today announces that AimValley BV of The Netherlands has selected the company's MB87M2181 Ethernet-over-SDH/SONET device for its BX10 product family. The first product in this family, the BX21, offers Ethernet and PDH over SDH/SONET functionality and is targeted at wireless backhaul networks.

"Fujitsu's MB87M2181 Ethernet-over-SDH/SONET device allows us to provide our customers with a very compact, easy to install and maintain system for service aggregation and transport in access and wireless infrastructure applications", commented Ino Rots, co-founder of AimValley BV. "The integrated SERDES and timing functions, the combination of Ethernet and PDH client interfaces together with an integrated TDM cross-connect allows us to implement the complete system at very low-cost to provide our customers with an easy convergence and migration from PDH to Ethernet services."

FME's MB87M2181 device has two STM-1/OC-3, STM-4/OC-12 multi-rate line interfaces plus two STM-1/OC-3 fixed-rate tributary interfaces that enable glueless connection to hot-pluggable SFP modules. Four E1/DS1, four Gigabit Ethernet/Fast Ethernet as well as support for a telecom bus are provided as client interfaces. The device integrates a High Order and Low Order cross connect, four Virtual Concatenation Groups, and G.813 SEC / GR-1244 Stratum-3 Network Element clock timing reference generation. Low-latency and hitless LCAS (G.7042), GFP, LAPS and PPP mapping of Ethernet frames are also supported.

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