March 19, 2009 -- Sarance Technologies, a supplier of high speed interconnect Intellectual Property (IP) technology, announced the immediate availability of its HSEC (High Speed Ethernet Core), a commercially available Media Access Controller (MAC), Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS), and Multi Lane Distribution (MLD) IP conforming to the emerging 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40 GbE) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) standard.
Sarance Technologies has been an active member of the IEEE 802.3ba High Speed Ethernet (HSE) working group since its inception, and is one of the original contributors to the definition and implementation of the new architecture for 40G and 100G Ethernet protocols. The HSEC IP conforms to Draft 2.0 of the IEEE802.3ba standard and has been tested by major networking and service provider vendors in system laboratories and validated in field trials running over a trillion of error free Ethernet frames over a live 100GE network. The HSEC IP has also been proven to interoperate with a major test equipment vendor.
"The architecture of 100 GbE and 40 GbE systems is very different from traditional 10 GbE and 1 GbE systems, as 802.3ba has introduced several new design concepts. The availability of HSEC IP from Sarance accelerates the development of 40GE and 100GE products and enables system developers to focus their resources on their value added and differentiating features," comments Farhad Shafai, founder and VP of R&D at Sarance Technologies.
The HSEC IP is available as soft core for Virtex-5 TXT FPGAs and Altera Stratix IV GT and Altera Stratix IV GX FPGAs, as well as for ASIC implementations. It has also been implemented and validated in 65 nm and 40 nm process technologies. The IP is delivered as a netlist targeted for the specific FPGA architecture, or as RTL code that can be implemented in any ASIC process technology.
"With end user applications driving demand for bandwidth in the transport core and the data center, service providers understand the need for quick deployment of 40GbE and 100GbE," offers Jag Bolaria, senior analyst at The Linley Group. "Off-the-shelf IP Cores from vendors such as Sarance Technologies reduce development time and enable interoperability across multiple implementations, allowing service providers to build-out 40GbE and 100GbE in the core of their network."
Sarance will be demonstrating the HSEC IP running 100 GbE traffic at the OFC/NFOEC Convention in San Diego, California on March 24-26, 2009.
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