Pune : Paxonet Communications, Inc (earlier known as CoreEl Microsystems) launched its PX4800 Viti-48 chip in the US on Monday. "The highlight of the chip is that it is the first of its kind to be completely designed in India," Mr Chetan Sanghvi, CEO and founder of Paxonet said. These chips were entirely conceived, designed and developed at Paxonet's Pune and Bangalore design centres. Paxonet is headquartered in Fremont, California. Mr Sanghvi plans to aggressively increase the team size at the Indian development centres where around 105 people are working. Paxonet is funded by VC Raza Ventures among others."This is the first in a series of products that we plan to introduce for Metropolitan-Area Networks (MAN)," Mr Sanghvi said. Our primary focus is to ease the bottlenecks in the metro access networks and aid equipment manufacturers. This would enable them to support multiservice data types such as TDM, ethernet, IP, MPLS and ATM traffic.
Mr Sanghvi says the packet-based transport and backbone networks will see rapid future growth and there will be an increasing requirement for seamlessly integrating the current TDM based infrastructure with packet-based transport platforms. Viti-48 will address the rapidly growing market for metro-service switching platforms that is expected to soar from $3 billion in year 2000 to $23 billion in 2003. The Paxonet product line will support optical networking equipment manufacturers with TDM Access, multi-service Optical Transport and Traffic Engineering solutions at 2.5Gbps to 40 Gbps line rates. This is the industry's highest density virtual tributary SONET/SDH cross connect for Metro Optical Access.
It is a single chip implementation of a single stage, non-blocking switch for virtual tributaries across a full OC-48 data stream and raises the bare on high integration and flexibility.
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