Reference design gets bridges and routers going

IDT and Alcatel have unveiled a jointly developed bridge and router reference design.

IDT and Alcatel have unveiled a jointly developed bridge and router reference design.

The two companies united their complementary technologies to accelerate product development cycles for the customer premise equipment (CPE) market.

The 79RP351 ADSL reference design provides a comprehensive, production-ready solution that enables fast time-to-market for the design of ADSL bridges and routers.

The reference design enables designers to reach a competitive bill-of-materials for ADSL bridge and router applications.

Combining the proven interoperability and reliability of Alcatel's MTK-20150 Utopia ADSL chipset with IDT's high-performance RC32355 integrated communications processor, the solution addresses the needs of residential gateway systems builders.

The new reference design is highly compact and incorporates an ADSL port, an Ethernet and a USB interface as part of the platform.

This powerful product implements added value functions in software to provide system differentiation, including security and system management.

"Our partnership with Alcatel enabled the development of an ASDL bridge and router reference design that gives our customers a significant time-to-market advantage coupled with a guarantee of interoperability with the mainstream DSLAM products in the market place", said Jean-Charles Bouzigues, business development manager for IDT's Internetworking Product Division.

"Additionally, the broad selection of available software and development tools, operating systems and compilers for this platform offer the greatest degree of flexibility for engineers designing broadband access gateways".

"We chose to develop this partnership with IDT to enable a cost-effective solution for our customers in the elemental gateway market", said Kai Wang, xDSL CPE business unit general manager for Alcatel's microelectronics activities.

"This reference design leverages our leadership in DSL technology with IDT's systems expertise to provide a complete ADSL bridge and router solution".

The ADSL reference design supports a wide variety of operating systems, along with software stacks that support bridging and routing functions, security support such as firewall and virtual private networks (VPN).

Software stacks such as PPPoE, PPPoA, MPOA and IP routing protocol, are available to facilitate faster software development cycles and speed time to market for designers of CPE equipment.

The IDT79RP351 ADSL bridge/router reference design kit, including schematics and gerber files for manufacturing, priced at $2500 per kit, is currently sampling with production scheduled for early January 2002.

Additional information about the reference design can be found on IDT's website.

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