Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Agere Systems | Subject: APP600 series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 06 June 2005
Network processor promises big savings
A next-generation, higher-performance network processor chip works with new network processor software to save telecomms service providers millions of dollars in revenues due to network outages.
Agere Systems has developed a next-generation, higher-performance network processor chip, the APP600 series, along with new network processor software that it reckons can save telecomms service providers millions of dollars in revenues due to network outages The company has also disclosed details about a live demonstration converging streams, cell and frames onto a multiservice, packet-switched network
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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