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Bay Microsystems Adds Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) Implementation for Chesapeake 40G Network Processor
Lighthouse™ Tool Suite Now Supports PBT, Along with a Broad Range of Layer 2/3 Features for Carrier Ethernet Networks.
San Jose, CA, October 1, 2007 – Bay Microsystems, Inc., the world's fastest growing network processor company, today announced the availability of its Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) application for the highly-touted Chesapeake 40G Network Processor. The PBT application is the latest addition to Lighthouse™, Bay’s comprehensive hardware and software tool suite that facilitates the design, development, debug, and delivery of next generation network equipment.
With Ethernet’s emergence as the end-to-end protocol of choice throughout service provider networks, Provider Backbone Transport, also known as IEEE 802.1Qay and PBB-TE, has become the most discussed topic in the networking world. PBT provides simple and desirable enhancements to existing Carrier Ethernet technologies transforming Ethernet into a connection-oriented transport technology with fine-grained traffic engineering capability. Ethernet together with PBT provides a scalable, secure, cost-effective, elegant and reliable solution for transport and service requirements within today's bandwidth hungry networks.
"The explosive growth seen in the CESR (Carrier Ethernet Switches and Routers) market is largely attributed to the global adoption and deployment of advanced Carrier Ethernet services,” said Santhosh Vasanthakumar, Product Marketing Manager at Bay Microsystems. “Bay is well positioned to capitalize on the CESR market with Chesapeake, which leads the industry in providing the flexibility and performance required for the broad range of existing and emerging Carrier Ethernet applications."
Chesapeake‘s programmable packet processing engines, extensive service management support and unparalleled forwarding performance, are ideally suited for the onerous processing requirements of PBT and other Ethernet applications. With the addition of PBT, the Lighthouse Tool Suite now supports a wide range of Layer 2 and Layer 3 applications including: MPLS, PWE3, IPv4, IPv6, VLAN Switching, Multicast and Traffic Engineering.
The combination of NEXTware™ APIs, development tools and applications offered with Lighthouse significantly reduces the development cost and time for network OEMs. The tool suite fully equips customers to realize the outstanding potential of Chesapeake and deploy robust, high performance end-systems based on Chesapeake in record time. Lighthouse Tool Suite has been shipping to customers since March, 2007.
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Bay Microsystems is one of industry's fastest growing communications companies. A recognized global leader in high-performance, programmable network processors, transport processors and WAN system technology, Bay Microsystems and its award winning products enable the delivery of converged voice, video, data and multimedia and have been deployed in mission-critical service provider, enterprise and government networks since 2003. Bay’s customers include many leading government, telecom and network equipment manufacturers. For more information please visit www.baymicrosystems.com.Company Contact:
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