Vitesse Interoperates With Intel

CAMARILLO, Calif. -- Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation today announced interoperability with its GigaStream™ and TeraStream™ intelligent switch fabrics and the Intel® IXP2400 and IXP2800 network processors, giving system designers an ideal combination of proven silicon products that provide seamless interfaces and exceed typical first-pass success rates for system development.A switch fabric and network processor work together in a variety of applications including metro and core routers, multi-service switches, enterprise backbones, storage area networks, and 3G wireless gateways. They are tasked to solve communications functions such as protocol analysis, packet processing and forwarding, traffic management and switching. Together, the products from Vitesse and Intel will provide glueless and optimized solutions to address these specific applications. Common interfaces between the product lines will efficiently and affordably unite the technologies. Comprehensive interoperability across the product lines implemented at the software, physical and functional levels will help to reduce overall system development investment and expedite time-to-market. Additionally, the standards-based interface shared between the network processor and the switch fabric allows a network system to evolve with technology advancements while maintaining backward compatibility.“Since switch fabrics and network processors are first to be selected in the design decision process, having Vitesse switch fabrics and Intel network processors work together is a natural industry progression,” stated Richard Riker, vice president of sales and marketing for Vitesse. “This collaboration provides our customers with the choices they are demanding.”Vitesse Semiconductor Corp.Intel Corp.