Enterprise Market Segment:

Sophisticated applications and more powerful PCs continually drive enterprise network traffic to new levels, resulting in critical connections no longer having enough bandwidth. Visually rich multi-tasking, such as exchanging graphic designs while talking on an Internet phone line, drives this bandwidth increase. 

Cortina Systems, Inc. provides a broad range of standards-based, high performance connectivity solutions that lower enterprise IT costs and simplify system upgrades. Compatible with existing Ethernet infrastructures, these solutions offer a reliable, flexible, scalable approach to realizing higher bandwidth. For companies that depend on fast, efficient information flow, Cortina provides solutions that result in higher performance, fewer bottlenecks, greater productivity and more powerful e-Business capabilities.

Specifically Cortina products support:

•  High Performance Technology
  • Multi-port XFP and SFP interfaces with integrated SerDes eliminates extra serialization components and associated interfaces which reduce cost and power
  • Multi-port SFP+ and XFP interfaces through SerDes integration results in smaller footprint and larger number of Ethernet ports per linecard, while reducing power and complexity.
  • High speed inter-component connectivity Interlaken technology along with XAUI and SPI-4 for high speed packet transfers between components
• Quality of Service (QoS)
  • Extensive QoS features with L2-L5 classification for triple play applications
  • Oversubscription capabilities with internal and external memory options enable more connectivity at lower cost points
  • Oversubscription capabilities enable more connectivity at lower cost points

Target Applications

• 10 Gigabit and Gigabit Ethernet switching and routing equipment
• Integrated port connectivity for ASICs, FPGAs, and Network Processors
• SFP+ and Backplane PHYs

Technology

• Gigabit Ethernet MACs with synchronization support
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet MACs with native connectivity to small SFP+ optics
• 10G EDC PHY

Featured Products

• Cortina Systems® CS3477/87: 4-port, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC (Figure 1)
• Cortina Systems® CS3472:  24-port Gigabit Ethernet Line Rate MAC; includes SyncE, which enables synchronous timing distribution across an Ethernet network (Figure 2)

Relevant News:

• White Paper: Interlaken Technology: New-Generation Packet Interconnect Protocol
  Serial link technology has multiplied device interconnect bandwidths in advanced communications equipment. Interlaken is an interconnect protocol optimized for high bandwidth and reliable packet transfers. It uses bundles of serial links to create a logical connection between components with multiple channels, backpressure capability, and data-integrity protection to boost the performance of communications equipment. This white paper gives an overview of the Interlaken features and an implementation case study.

This complete paper can be downloaded from the Cortina website: http://www.cortina-systems.com/products/download/269

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