EZchip samples NP-3 NPU

July 1, 2008
JULY 1, 2008 -- The NP-3 is a scale-up of EZchip's NP-2 network processor, designed to provide higher performance and an enhanced feature set for Carrier Ethernet applications.

JULY 1, 2008 -- EZchip Technologies Ltd. (a LanOptics Ltd. company; search for EZchip) says it has begun shipping samples of its NP-3, 30-gigabit network processor to customers. The NP-3 is a scale-up of EZchip's NP-2 network processor, designed to provide higher performance and an enhanced feature set for Carrier Ethernet applications.

The NP-3 is manufactured in a 90-nm silicon process and is pin and software compatible with the NP-2 to offer an easy migration path. The NP-3 is available in lead and lead-free (Pb-free) packages (RoHS compliant) and in commercial and industrial temperature grades.

EZchip's NP-3 provides 30-gigabit throughput and features three 10-gigabit ports, integrated hierarchical traffic management, and dedicated hardware for Ethernet and MPLS OAM processing offload. Like EZchip's NP-2 network processor (now in production), the NP-3 targets mainly Carrier Ethernet switch and router applications.

The use of the 90-nm silicon process offers a significant performance increase, says EZchip. Architecture and algorithmic enhancements further boost the NP-3 performance to provide large processing headroom and a total throughput of 30-Gbits/sec, the company adds.

EZchip asserts the NP-3 is being designed by customers into a variety of networking equipment, including edge routers, metro and aggregation Switches, GPON OLTs and Ethernet to SONET/SDH switches. EZchip provides customers with reference source code to implement a variety of applications such as L2 switching, Q-in-Q, PBT, VPLS, MPLS, and IPv4/IPv6 routing.

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