Flexible framer juggles with datarates

Cypress Semiconductor is sampling a device it dubs the industry's most advanced Sonet/SDH framer.

Cypress Semiconductor is sampling a device it dubs the industry's most advanced Sonet/SDH framer.

Operating at OC-48/STM-16 (2.5Gbit/s) speeds, POSIC2GVC uses virtual concatenation to dynamically allocate up to 16 channels of voice and data, providing right-sized, secure and dedicated bandwidth for high-speed data networks.

POSIC2GVC supports generic framing procedure (GFP), which makes it possible to transport any protocol over Sonet/SDH, including Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, enterprise system connection (ESCON) and digital video broadcast (DVB).

POSIC2GVC features packet preclassification, offloading work from the network processor, thereby enabling higher performance.

POSIC2GVC is ideal for metropolitan area network and wide area network carrier-clas