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June 7, 2005 Austin, TX -- Wintegra and PMC-Sierra have formed a strategic relationship. The companies say the collaboration focuses on providing customers with system devices for multi-service, passive optical, and metro networking, as well as for wireless service backhaul, applications. The initiative combines PMC-Sierra's portfolio of communications networking products with Wintegra's line of access packet processors and customized software.
"Wintegra has proven expertise in programmable multi-protocol networking, and both our companies are targeting solutions for the service provider access equipment market," explains Bob Bailey, president and CEO of PMC-Sierra. "Together, we can offer customers systems solutions that have improved functionality, flexibility, and better time-to-market."
"PMC-Sierra has a comprehensive product line for service provider networks, ranging from physical layer devices, [to] framers, mappers, backplane devices, and high end microprocessors," adds Kobi Ben-Zvi, president and CEO of Wintegra. "This rich product line, combined with Wintegra's access processors and protocol software customized for PMC-Sierra components, creates best-in-class, board-level system solutions."
The companies say their first, joint reference design platform for the metro access market combines Wintegra's 787M6 WinPath access processor and Universal Front End (UFE) with PMC-Sierra's TEMUX-84 and ARROW framer/mapper devices, to create a comprehensive OC-3 multi-service system supporting IP, ATM, Frame Relay, IMA, ATM circuit emulation, and Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge to Edge (PWE3), over a channelized OC-3.
According to the companies, the board-level platform features glueless hardware connectivity between respective silicon components, as well as customized systems software that unifies the entire system's configuration. The joint reference design is currently available to customers. The companies say they are also working on additional reference design platforms for the metro networking and wireless infrastructure markets.
As part of the strategic relationship, PMC-Sierra has made an equity investment in Wintegra, which has design and support centers located in Texas, Israel, and Scotland.
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