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Interphase Announces
Availability of iSPAN 36CA OCTEON™ Plus AdvancedMC™
and the iSPAN 55CA PCI-X Packet Accelerator Cards
High Performance Packet
Processing for Broadband Networks
Plano, TEXAS –
June 12, 2008 – Interphase
Corporation (NASDAQ: INPH), a leading international
supplier of next-generation networking technologies,
today announced the availability of the 36CA AdvancedMC™
Quad GE OCTEON™ Plus and the 55CA Quad GbE
to PCI-X Packet Accelerator Cards. Both of these
products are standards based packet accelerators
utilizing Cavium Network’s (NASDAQ: CAVM)
OCTEON Plus family of Network Service Processors
and address the emerging needs of security, deep
packet inspection, packet routing and policy based
forwarding and pattern matching functions required
in next generation networks. The 36CA Quad Gigabit
Ethernet AdvancedMC modules are for use in AdvancedTCA,
MicroTCA platforms and the 55CA quad Gigabit Ethernet
PCI-X module is for use with rack-mount server
platforms.
“Interphase is pleased to announce general
availability for the 36CA and the 55CA. We have
been working closely with a number of customers
to successfully complete trials with the 36CA
and 55CA over the last several months. The 36CA
and 55CA expand Interphase’s product offerings
with high performance packet accelerator products
in partnership with Cavium Networks’ industry
leading OCTEON Plus processor architecture and
6Wind’s 6WindGate™ software tools”,
said Ian MacMillan, Senior Product Manager at
Interphase Corporation. “As the telecommunications
networks transition to a packet based network,
the need for line rate secure packet processing,
packet inspection, classification, and QOS support
is the foundation for the delivery of high performance
network elements for the emerging 3G/4G wireless,
IMS and IPTV network architectures.”
The iSPAN 36CA and iSPAN 55CA packet accelerator
products are ideal modules for use across a
wide variety of applications including ASN Gateways
and Base Stations in WIMAX networks, Radio Network
Controllers, Packet Access Gateways and Gateway
GPRS Service Nodes in Wideband-CDMA 3G/HSPA/LTE
networks and security and content inspection
appliances.
Cavium Networks’ industry leading OCTEON
family of multi-core processors, with low power
and high packet processing performance, provide
integrated hardware acceleration engines for
security and data content, co-processors for
TCP offload, Anti-Virus, IDS, compression and
decompression, advanced Layer4+ hardware acceleration
and future proof software compatibility, making
them the ideal choice for a wide range of packet
processing applications in the network.
The AMC 2.0 compliant iSPAN 36CA, with quad
Gigabit Ethernet and PCI-e x4 connectivity on
the AdvancedMC connector, is offered with up
to 1GB of memory and up to 32MB of optional
16 bit RLDRAM memory, and is suitable for usage
in a wide variety of AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA
based application platforms. The 55CA is an
intelligent full-size PCI-X quad Gigabit Ethernet
network interface card, with PCI-X connectivity
to the host and a SPI4.2 connector for back
to back connectivity of cards. It is offered
with up to 4GB of memory and up to 32MB of optional
16 bit RLDRAM memory, and is suitable for use
with enterprise class and carrier grade rack
mount server platforms.
In addition to the iSPAN 36CA and 55CA, Interphase
offers a broad range of AdvancedMC, AdvancedTCA,
PCI-X/PCI-e and PMC modules. The Interphase
portfolio of products will be showcased at the
NXTcomm 2008 being held at the Las Vegas Conference
Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 16 –
19, 2008.
For pricing and availability information please
contact us at www.iphase.com.
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a leading provider of highly
integrated semiconductor products that enable
intelligent processing in networking, communications,
storage and security applications. Cavium Networks
offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software
compatible processors ranging in performance
from 10 Mbps to 20 Gbps that enable secure,
intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center,
broadband/consumer and access & service
provider equipment. Cavium Networks processors
are supported by ecosystem partners that provide
operating systems, tool support, reference designs
and other services. Cavium Networks principal
offices are in Mountain View, CA with design
team locations in California, Massachusetts
and India. For more information, please visit:
http://www.caviumnetworks.com.
About Interphase Corporation
Interphase Corporation (NASDAQ: INPH) is a leading
provider of robust building blocks, highly integrated
subsystems and innovative gateway appliances
for the converged communications network. Building
on a 30-year history of providing advanced I/O
solutions for telecom and enterprise applications
and addressing the need for high speed connectivity,
Interphase has established a key leadership
role in delivering next generation AdvancedTCA®
(ATCA), MicroTCA™ and AdvancedMC™
(AMC) solutions to the marketplace. Headquartered
in Plano, Texas with sales offices across the
globe, Interphase clients include Alcatel-Lucent,
Emerson Network Power, Ericsson, Fujitsu Ltd.,
Hewlett Packard, Motorola Inc., Nokia-Siemens
Networks, Nortel Networks Ltd. and Samsung.
Interphase is a contributor member of the Scope
Alliance and the Communications Platform Trade
Association (CP-TA). Additional information
about Interphase and its products is available
on the company’s Web site at www.interphase.com.
Interphase is an Affiliate member of the Intel®
Embedded and Communications Alliance. The Intel
Embedded and Communications Alliance is a member-based
program comprised of communications and embedded
developers and solution providers. Members are
committed to providing a strategic supply of
standards-based solutions to the communications
and embedded market segments. For more
information, please visit: www.intel.com/go/ica.
Kontron Contact:
Julie Parenzan
Interphase Corporation
Phone: 214-654-5000
Email: jparenzan@iphase.com
Cavium Networks Contact:
Angel Atondo
Marketing Manager
Cavium Networks
805 East Middlefield Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone: 650-623-7033
Email: angel.atondo@caviumnetworks.com
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