SAN JOSE, Calif. -- EZchip Technologies (a subsidiary of LanOptics Ltd., NASDAQ:LNOP), a fabless semiconductor company providing high-speed network processors, today announced the immediate delivery of its QX-1 10-Gigabit traffic manager. QX-1 further enhances the considerable savings and flexibility brought about by EZchip’s leading NP-1 10-Gigabit network processor. The combination of the highly integrated QX-1 and NP-1 enables building networking equipment with the stringent requirements for Quality of Service (QoS) while significantly reducing overall system cost, power dissipation and chip-count. EZchip is employing a unique model by offering QX-1 to its customers the choice as a readily available ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) or as a core for applying QX-1 in FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), providing flexible cost structures and enabling customer-specific features and interfaces.“In the past year EZchip has accomplished significant milestones: We have brought to market the NP-1, a solution two generations ahead of the competition, we have garnered a substantial customer base and successfully raised $24.5M Series C funding, establishing EZchip as the leading high-speed network processor vendor. Our recent Series C funding also provides us with the long-term viability customers expect when engaging with a new supplier.” said Eli Fruchter, President and CEO of EZchip. “The availability of QX-1 is the first in a series of milestones we aim to achieve in 2003 to further solidify our market leadership through continuously enlarging our customer base and broadening our product offering.”EZchip’s QX-1 is an optional device that expands the traffic management capabilities of the NP-1 10-Gigabit network processor for applications requiring advanced QoS provisioning. Unlike other solutions that have been announced that implement traffic management through software programming of the network processor, EZchip’s QX-1 implements traffic management in hardware for high performance. Since traffic management involves simultaneously examining the status of thousands of queues and their related parameters it can be effectively implemented only in hardware. Software implementation dictates successive inspecting of thousands of individual queues resulting in poor performance, complex programming and inaccurate provisioning of QoS.EZchip Technologies