Applied Micro Circuits will promote the new Yahara family at the OFC/NFOEC Convention, booth #3015, from March 24 to March 26, 2009, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.

The new family of devices represents Applied Micro Circuits’ fifth generation of integrated local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and the optical transport network (OTN) silicon solutions. The new Yahara product family builds on company’s MetrON product family by widening edge and metro carrier Ethernet features into the metro and long haul optical network applications. By offering extra modes of 10G to Optical Transport Unit-2 (OTU-2) mapping features and including a second 10G PHY into the Yahara product line, the company offers telecom original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with unmatched levels of power, space and cost savings for OTU-2 transponder and regenerator applications.

As the carrier service providers continue their migration away from traditional SONET/SDH based services to lower cost 10G optical services, the new Yahara allows telecom OEMs to build the flexible and cost-effective platforms to map exploding volumes of Ethernet traffic directly onto optical transport networks. By offering three packages supporting 10G AnyRate protocols, the new Yahara is ideally suited for various blade applications incorporating 10G client/line cards, 10G transponders/muxponder cards, 10G regenerator cards, and 40G to 100G muxponder applications.

The 10G market is marked by rapid technology transitions, which often results in large shifts in vendor share. The market for 10G PHY is in a rapid technology transition and several vendors are vying to establish an early leadership position, stated Jag Bolaria, principal analyst with The Linley Group. AMCC’s Yahara product family integrates a compelling array of functions that match up well with the needs of next generation telecommunications platforms, carrier Ethernet switches, and router applications. With Yahara, AMCC is positioning itself to capitalize as the transition to optical technology expands into the Metro and Long-Haul networks.

The new Yahara product family combines 10GbE/10G Fibre Channel (FC)/8G FC/OC-192/STM-64 to OTU-2 mapping services, FracN clock synthesizing circuitry, electronic dispersion compensation (EDC), GFEC/Enhanced FEC, and 10G serdes functions in a single device. By discarding the need for a variety of external PHYs and interface bridge devices, the new Yahara devices allow telecom OEMs to decrease 10G OTU-2 transponder and regenerator line card power and space needs by up to 56% and 81%, respectively.

The Yahara product family enables our customers to provide carriers with best-in-class 10G client mapping services for 10G/OTU-2 Multi-Service Transport solutions at an extremely cost-effective price, stated Sandeep Gupta, vice president, engineering and marketing for transport products at Applied Micro Circuits. Each of the Yahara devices are specifically designed to address unique requirements in the 10-Gigabit transport marketplace. The product line demonstrates AMCC’s intellectual property portfolio and ability to develop highly integrated mixed signal solutions for the optical transport network market.

The new Yahara S10123 is designed for 10G OTU-2 client/line tributary metro ethernet and switch/router applications. The flexible system interface of new Yahara S10123 supports XAUI/SFI4.P2/SFI-5s protocols and allows the direct connection to network processors, 10G Ethernet switches, 10G framers and 10G MACs. Yahara’s 10G line XFI interface allows the direct connection to XFP and SFP+ optic modules. This allows telecom OEMs to realize considerable power, space and cost savings with the removal of external PHYs. The new Yahara S10123 is packaged in a 19×19 sqmm plastic ball grid array.

The new Yahara S10124 includes a robust set of interfaces which offers design flexibility for multi-service transport and DWDM platforms. A XAUI/SFI4.P2/SFI-5s system interface and a devoted 10G XFI line interface supports a separate and dedicated 10G XFI client interface and also a 16-bit parallel SFI4.P1 interface offering flexibility for use on either the client or line side of the device. The S10124 is perfect for 10G OTU-2 client/line tributary cards, transponder and regenerator applications and supports 10G XFP/SFP+ and 10G MSA modules. Additionally, the S10124’s rich set of interfaces allows the customers to improve differentiating features like encryption and unique mappings which allow telecom OEMs to support both future and legacy carrier optical network needs. The new S10124 is packaged in a 25×25 plastic ball grid array.

The new Yahara S10126 device is designed for the optical networking industry’s continuing migration to small form factor serial 10G optic modules and 10G serial backplanes. The new Yahara S10126 device is packaged in a 19×19 plastic ball grid array and supports two serial 10G interfaces that are XFP/SFP+ module compliant, allowing a small footprint solution for 10G Transponder applications, serial 10G backplane applications, and 10x100G muxponder applications.

The complete Yahara family supports a 10G GMP mapping mode that allows 10G Client signals to be mapped into a generic ODU-2 frame at a common clock rate that can feed a 100G muxponder device. This mapping feature offers a clean and easily routable interface to both the client side XFP/SFP+ optic module and to the100G muxponder device.

Integrated ITU G.709 FEC (GFEC) and Applied Micro Circuits’ enhanced FEC (ITU G.975.1.I4) enables the Yahara product family to allow Metro and Long Haul transmission of 10GbE over OTN networks in low optical signal noise ratio [OSNR] environments. Additionally, the GFEC and company’s Enhanced FEC features compensate for channel impairments, allowing narrow channel spacing of 25Ghz for DWDM systems.

The new Yahara product family is industrial temperature compliant (-40oC to 85oC) and will start sampling to the alpha customers in the second quarter of 2009.

Applied Micro Circuits is a US-based designer, developer, marketer and supporter of integrated circuit and storage components.