Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: PMC-Sierra | Subject: Chess-III
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 04 June 2002
Chipset aids cost-effective Sonet/SDH
upgrades
PMC-Sierra reckons its Chess-III chipset establishes a new benchmark for technology and innovation in aggregating, grooming and transporting 2.5 and 10Gbit/s metro services.
PMC-Sierra reckons its Chess-III chipset establishes a new benchmark for technology and innovation in aggregating, grooming and transporting 2.5 and 10Gbit/s metro services Chess-III simplifies design and network management and substantially reduces carrier systems costs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Jan 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Chess-III is ideal for multiservice provisioning platforms, subwavelength crossconnects and add-drop multiplexers for metropolitan transport markets.