Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: National Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 April 2002
National and Vitesse in Ethernet accord
National Semiconductor and Vitesse Semiconductor are working together to develop end-to-end solutions to accelerate adoption of high-performance and cost-effective Gigabit Ethernet technologies.
National Semiconductor and Vitesse Semiconductor are working together to develop end-to-end solutions to accelerate adoption of high-performance and cost-effective Gigabit Ethernet technologies National and Vitesse agreed to jointly develop a wide range of innovative enterprise local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The first product based on this codevelopment agreement between the two companies will be available this month through National.
This collaboration between National and Vitesse is aimed at enabling customers to deliver Gigabit Ethernet solutions that have reduced overall system cost and faster time-to-market.
Also, customers will benefit from alternate sourcing, improved reliability and product availability.
"The strengths of our two companies are very complementary and this collaboration will allow us to introduce a number of new products that will span a broad range of applications for gigabit Ethernet", stated Michael Millhollan, vice president and general manager, data communications division at Vitesse Semiconductor.
"National and Vitesse share the same goal of driving the rapidly growing gigabit Ethernet market with complete networking products", said Michael Noonen, vice president of wired communication division at National Semiconductor.
"This collaboration between the two major players in the LAN, WAN and metropolitan area network (MAN) areas enables us to codevelop innovative networking technologies and to provide unmatched Ethernet solutions to our respective customers".
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