Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: PMC-Sierra | Subject: Xenon family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 02 May 2001
Level 4 devices support 10Gbit Ethernet
PMC-Sierra has unveiled the Xenon (10Gbit Ethernet for optical networks) family of clock recovery and concatenated PHY/framer devices.
PMC-Sierra has unveiled the Xenon (10Gbit Ethernet for optical networks) family of clock recovery and concatenated PHY/framer devices designed to enable the convergence of WAN-based OC-192 ATM/POS, Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 10Gbit Ethernet (10GE) services in the metro Xenon devices are compatible with multiple ITU, IEEE, OIF and ATM Forum standards offering broad support for 10Gbit optical modules and protocol framing modes
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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