Vitesse Updates 10G Serdes

CAMARILLO, Calif. -- Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets: VTSS - News), a leading provider of advanced IC solutions for Carrier and Enterprise networks, today introduced its latest 10G Ethernet physical-layer SerDes. Ideal for high-density 10G aggregation in emerging 40G/100G Ethernet backbones, Mobile Backhaul/Transport, and Enterprise networks, the VSC8488 and VSC8484 dual and quad Ethernet PHYs are the first such devices brought to market that support Synchronous Ethernet and other precision timing capabilities, along with working and protection failover capability required to meet Carrier resiliency.

The well documented explosion in mobile data and video applications continues to drive ever expanding bandwidth needs across the network. As mobile access demand for 3G and 4G grows, and related backhaul is upgraded from the E1/T1 TDM platforms to the 1G packet based systems, network timing, management, and redundancy requirements must be maintained at much higher data rates. 10G uplinks will be needed to aggregate the multiple 1G access points.

“Per our latest Networking Port count analysis released in April, 10G ports shipments approached 2M in calendar 2009 and cumulative 10/40/100G port shipments will grow to 35M by calendar year 2014, a 5-year CAGR of 59 percent,” said Andrew Schmitt, directing analyst, optical at Infonetics Research. “Products such as Vitesse’s multichannel 10G SerDes are well positioned to support the ongoing 10G port density ramp along with the migration to 40G and 100G implementations.”

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