SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- PMC-Sierra (NASDAQ: PMCS) today introduced the PM3393 S/UNI(R) ´10GE-XP, a highly integrated, low power, all-purpose Ethernet solution for use in enterprise, storage, and metro applications. The new S/UNI 1x10GE-XP is a single-chip 10 Gigabit Ethernet LAN PHY with embedded MAC/PCS and supports industry-adopted XAUI-based optical modules. This device is the latest addition to the XENON(TM) family of SPI-4.2/POS-PHY(TM) Level 4- based (PL4) OC-192 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet physical layer products which are now fully compliant with the IEEE 802.3ae-2002 final specification. Examples of ideal networking applications for the S/UNI 1x10GE-XP are large enterprise switches deployed by Fortune 500 companies and university campuses, edge and core routers (see figure 1), and SAN applications (see figure 2) such as storage-aware router blades, iSCSI gateways, and iSCSI interfaces on Fibre Channel switches."We originally built the XENON Ethernet family of devices to meet the demanding requirements of carrier-class metro network equipment and to enable the convergence of Ethernet and SONET," said Steve Perna, vice president and general manager PMC-Sierra's Service Provider Division. "Now with the addition of our S/UNI 1x10GE-XP, the XENON family of devices provides solutions spanning metro optical equipment to enterprise 10GE applications such as Ethernet switches and SAN host-bus adaptors. This is important as carriers continue to expand their service offerings to include Ethernet without costly migrations away from SONET/SDH."PMC-Sierra Inc.