Fulcrum Microsystems and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation to Demonstrate Low-Latency Switch
3/29/07 – Calabasas-based Fulcrum Microsystems and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation have announced a new, jointly designed SFP+ 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch reference design that combines Fulcrum’s FocalPoint FM2224 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch chip with AMCC’s QT2035S SFP+ physical layer IC. The companies say they are demonstrating the solution at the OFC/NFOEC Technical Conference and Exposition this week at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Fulcrum was founded in 2000 based on research conducted at Caltech. It is a fabless semiconductor company focused on developing interconnect devices that offer low-latency, fine-grained flow control and high throughput.
Fulcrum and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation say the joint reference design is a 24-port, pizza-box-style switch with 12 SFP+ module cages and 12 CX4 connectors. Fulcrum says the use of its switching technology ensures wire-rate switching performance with the industry’s lowest latency of 200 ns. The companies say the combined design provides the highest density and highest performance 10GE switching solution available on the market today.
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation – www.amcc.com
Fulcrum Microsystems - www.fulcrummicro.com
