AMCC Announces QT2025 Family Successfully Operates in SFP+ and 10GBASE-KR Applications

Ethernet Alliance demonstrates AMCC SFP+ and 10GBASE-KR PHY devices for optical modules and backplane applications at Interop
Interop Las Vegas 2008
Booth #1567

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC), a global leader in optical transport, embedded Power Architecture™ processing, and storage solutions today announced successful interoperability testing of the QT2025 physical layer (PHY) IC family at the University of New Hampshire’s Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL). The QT2025-1 PHY passed the interoperability testing with all 10GBASE-SR and 10GBASE-LR SFP+ optical modules. The QT2025 PHY passed its testing for 10GBASE-KR backplane applications. The two separate test events were organized by the Ethernet Alliance® SFP+/EDC Subcommittee and the Backplane Ethernet Subcommittee at UNH-IOL.

AMCC will demonstrate QT2025 and QT2025-1 Tuesday through Thursday in conjunction with the Ethernet Alliance in booth #1567 at the Interop™ conference.

The SFP+ interoperability tests covered both the transmitter and receiver performance of the QT2025-1 interfacing to both 10GBASE-SR and -LR SFP+ modules from seven different module vendors. The QT2025-1 exceeded the transmit mask requirements with all the SR/LR modules and operated with no errors for the duration of the test with all of the receiving modules.

"I am pleased with the success AMCC has shown in the UNH-IOL 10Gbps SFP+ PHY testing," said Marco Mazzini of Cisco and the Technical Champion of the Ethernet Alliance SFP+/EDC Subcommittee. "The results from the interoperability event show viability of next generation high density 10 Gigabit Ethernet equipment."

Testing for IEEE™ 802.3ap was conducted at UNH-IOL during a recent Plug-Fest organized by the Ethernet Alliance Backplane Ethernet Subcommittee. The QT2025 successfully passed the interoperability testing of 10GBASE-KR backplane interfaces. Testing of the QT2025’s 1000BASE-KX and auto-negotiation features are planned for a future event.

“The successful interoperability testing of AMCC's QT2025 and QT20215-1 is another milestone in preparing silicon for the 10GBASE-KR and SFP+ markets,” said Jag Bolaria, Senior Analyst at the Linley Group. “Both of these markets promise volume growth in the coming year and AMCC is well-positioned to take advantage of that growth with its 10Gbps Ethernet PHY family.”

About the QT2025 family

The QT2025 and the QT2025-1 integrate 10 Gbps serial-to-XAUI Ethernet processing with high-performance electronic dispersion compensation (EDC). The QT2025-1 is used in 1 and 10 Gbps Ethernet and Fibre Channel applications based on X2, XENPAK and SFP+ optical transceiver modules or direct attach copper cables. The QT2025 is used in 1 and 10 Gbps backplane Ethernet applications and is equipped with auto-negotiation and 10GBASE-KR forward error correction (FEC).

About AMCC

AMCC provides leadership semiconductor solutions to process, transport, and store digital information for the world's wired and wireless networks. As a leading supplier of Power Architecture™ based processors and with world-class expertise in SONET and Ethernet protocol processing, PHY technology, storage processors and RAID controllers our products are the foundation of the IP Communications Revolution. AMCC's 3ware® SAS and SATA RAID controllers deliver cost-effective, high-performance, high-capacity storage for enterprises and consumers worldwide in applications like disk-to-disk backup, near-line storage, network-attached storage (NAS), video, and high-performance computing. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our website at http://www.amcc.com.

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