PMC Complies With OIF FabricPMC Complies With OIF Fabric

PMC announces industry’s first OTN switching solutions to comply with new Optical Internetworking Forum protocol

January 18, 2012

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- PMC-Sierra, Inc., (Nasdaq:PMCS - News) or PMC, the semiconductor innovator transforming storage, optical and mobile networks, today announced that its HyPHY family of OTN processors provides full architectural support of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)’s new OTN-over-Packet-Fabric Protocol Implementation Agreement (IA). The OIF initiative aims to help the industry develop an ecosystem for interoperable OTN switching at the silicon and optical equipment levels, which meets carriers’ needs to drive mass deployment of OTN switching in their networks.

“Carriers worldwide are adopting OTN switching as a method to provide sub-wavelength switching to their converged optical transport infrastructure,” said Mark Pashan, general manager, optical transport products, Tellabs. “The ability to combine OTN with packet switching on the same platform provides them maximum flexibility in network designs to optimize costs.”

PMC-Sierra Inc. (Nasdaq: PMCS)

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