PCI Telecom Mezzanine Card hosts network processor: News from Xalyo Systems

Note: Readers of the free Electronicstalk email newsletter will have read this news when it was announced. Find out how to register for your free copy now.

The XS155 is the industry's first PCI Telecom Mezzanine Card (PTMC) based on Wintegra's WinPath network processor. Featuring four OC-3/STM-1 ports, XS155 is the perfect interface to handle both ATM and IP simultaneously. The XS155's onboard 64bit MIPS processor can run advanced protocols (such as 3GPP, SS7, VoIP) while the network processor handles all the datapath.

Supporting ATM and IP routing, switching, interworking and termination, the XS155 is ideally suited for applications such as wireless infrastructure, voice over packet, video streaming and next generation networks.

With its network-processor-based ATM AAL2, AAL5 and IP implementation, the XS155 is a cost effective solution for current and next releases of ATM or IP transport and control planes for 3G Node B, RNC, SGSN and MSC.

"Wintegra's WinPath's rich feature set and high port density gave us the foundation to design a family of interfaces ranging form E1/T1 to OC-12 and gigabit Ethernet rates", says Andre Wiesel, Xalyo Systems' Director.

"Wintegra's system level approach was a key factor in reaching our tight time to market requirements".

"Wintegra developed the WinPath network processor range specifically for the access infrastructure market and had a focus on providing a strong, cost effective, flexible silicon architecture for companies to perform switching and interworking or many protocols simultaneously", says Robert O'Dell, VP Marketing and cofounder of Wintegra.

"Telecomms equipment manufacturers and operators using these configurable products Xalyo Systems designs will be able to utilise the flexibility of our on-chip interfaces in their platforms as the transport network migrates towards IP from ATM".

Extensive software support is provided for the Linux and VxWorks environments.

Compliant with IEEE1386.1 PCI mezzanine card (PMC) and PICMG 2.15 PCI Telecom Mezzanine Card (PTMC) specifications, the XS155 can be used in cPCI, cPSB, AdvancedTCA, VME, PC and proprietary applications.

• Xalyo Systems: contact details and other news
• Email this news to a colleague
• Register for the free Electronicstalk email newsletter
• Electronicstalk Home Page