Ethernet Product Family:

Gigabit MAC

The explosion of Internet Protocol (IP) traffic and the proliferation of sophisticated applications are driving the demand for greater network bandwidth. This trend motivates networking equipment suppliers to search for Ethernet building blocks that can provide more reliable and cost-effective communications solutions. To address this need, the Cortina MACs:

•  Provides a standardized, high performance interface for network processors and proprietary ASICs
• Enables merchant silicon MACs to gain economies of scale
  • Lowers OEM risk as standards ensure compatibility
  • Lowers research and development costs of OEMs as merchant silicon vendors absorb development costs
  • Lowers product cost due to increased competition between merchant silicon vendors
  • Enables OEMs to focus on intellectual property rich, value added, upper layers and proprietary software