AppliedMicro Intros 100G OTN

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Applied Micro Circuits Corp., or AppliedMicro (Nasdaq: AMCC), today announced the industry’s first family of 100 gigabit per second (100G) optical network processors for the Packet-Optical Transport System (P-OTS) and IP-over-DWDM transport markets. Supporting network interface transponders, muxponders, Optical Transport Network (OTN) cross connects, P-OTS equipment and routers, AppliedMicro’s 100G OTN products are designed to help network operators expand the capacity of the Internet by a factor of ten to support exponentially growing demand for higher-bandwidth video, social networking and cloud computing traffic.

The first two new devices in the family, TPOT414 and TPOT424, are 100G transponders for metro/core OTN and packet networks. Based on SoftSilicon® programmable technology, these devices are the first to market that offer integrated support for the recently-adopted 100GE (IEEE ) and OTU4 (ITU-T) interface standards.

“With products offering 100G capacity, network operators will be able to take advantage of recent standards to deploy new equipment that significantly expands capacity for optical transport networks,” said Colin Macnab, President of AppliedMicro TPACK A/S. “The SoftSilicon programmable technology of TPOT414 and TPOT424 reduces the 100G adoption risk while providing customers with the ability to change and add functionality in the field. For telecom equipment manufacturers, these products lower the development costs of deploying next-generation services.”

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (Nasdaq: AMCC)