AppliedMicro Samples 100G Gearbox

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, or AppliedMicro (Nasdaq: AMCC) today announced it is sampling S28010 Gearbox integrated circuit devices for 100 Gigabit Ethernet and OTU4 optical interfaces. The S28010 enables the industry’s most cost-effective, power-efficient 100GBASE-xR4 and OTU4 optical modules with a single-chip CMOS device with superior performance to 28.1 Gbps. AppliedMicro will demonstrate the S28010 Gearbox at OFC/NFOEC 2012 from March 6-8 in Los Angeles.

Optical module vendors are designing next generation CFP modules compliant with 100GBASE-LR4, 100GBASE-ER4 and OTU4.4 standards to expand optical connection speeds from 10Gbps to 100Gbps for high-end switching and routing equipment in the data center and in client interfaces to service providers. Until now, industry adoption efforts have been slowed by high-cost, power-hungry SiGe or FPGA integrated circuits that are limited and unable to provide transport-quality performance and reliability. AppliedMicro’s 28010 Gearbox tackles the challenge by enabling SiGe-like performance in a reliable, low-power CMOS process and enables system designs with the flexibility to transport Ethernet, Fibre Channel and Optical Transport Network traffic.

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