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Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: PMC-Sierra | Subject: Xenon
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 November 2001

Hardware interoperability accelerates
optical nets

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PMC-Sierra and Altera Corp have announced the successful interoperability of PMC-Sierra's Xenon family of devices and Altera's POS-PHY Level 4-compatible Apex II devices.

PMC-Sierra and Altera Corp have announced the successful interoperability of PMC-Sierra's Xenon family of devices and Altera's POS-PHY Level 4-compatible Apex II devices The POS-PHY Level 4 interface is used for data transfer between physical layer devices, such as ATM, Packet-over-SONET (POS) and Gigabit Ethernet framers, and link layer components, such as Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, traffic management and switch fabric devices