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JULY 14th, 2005
Through Corecess, Inc., Teknovus, a fabless semiconductor company
that has shipped over one million Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) ports, has moved into position in the emerging EPON
market in Korea. Korea Telecom selected Corecess S5 scalable IP multi-service access platform and 3800 series ONT system
to implement Korea Telecom’s Fiber-to-the-Home service. The two systems are based on Teknovus’ TK3700-series EPON
chipset. The equipment will be used in the construction of a nationwide broadband network that will offer Korea’s residents
triple-play services for voice, data and television applications.
Noting the exclusivity of the agreement with Corecess and the large
Asian market was Dr. Rex Naden, CEO of Teknovus, "There is no question that fiber-based broadband access is growing rapidly
into a huge market for Asia and the rest of the word. It's an extremely competitive market, but Teknovus has a strong advantage
with the only EPON technology that enables triple-play services -- the key to future success for all service providers. We
are honored that Corecess and KT have recognized the unique price/performance value of the Teknovus EPON chipset solution,
and have selected us exclusively as partners."
JULY 5th, 2005
Passave Eyes Korean Market After Passing KT’s Benchmark
Test
Passave, an Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) chipset provider
and Tellion, a network systems company reported that Tellion’s EP 3120 OLT (optical line terminal) and EP 3204 residential-gateway
ONU (optical networking unit) passed benchmark testing by Korea Telecom (KT). Both the OLT and ONU are based on Passave’s
gigabit EPON chips. Tellion's EP 3204 4-port residential gateway ONU incorporates Passave’ PAS6201, an ONU/gateway device,
designed to make Fiber to the Home (FTTH) competitive in price with DSL. According to Kim Jae Guen, CEO at Tellion, "Our four-port
residential gateway offers carriers the advanced capabilities of the world's most highly integrated ONU chip, the Passave
PAS6201, along with demonstrated leading broadband performance -- while offering an unprecedented reduction in the bill of
materials with respect to the cost of other ONU solutions." The EP 3120 incorporates Passave’s PAS5001, a FTTH central-office
EPON device.
Commenting on the Passave’s recent record shipments in
Japan and Korea's market potential was Ariel Maislos, President of Passave, "At Passave we have a vision of gigabit FTTH transforming
communications throughout the world, as is currently happening in the Japan. Having shipped more than a million ONU devices
to Japan, we are pleased to see our third-generation ONU system-on-chip (SoC) qualify for deployment in Korea. The Korean
market has shown rapid adoption of broadband, and is likely to become a role model for acceptance and adoption of FTTH as
well."
JULY 5th, 2005
Vativ Announces 10 Gbps Stacking Link IC
Vativ Technologies, Inc. has added a 10Gbps stacking link IC to
its V10LAN product family. Called the VTV1115 chip, the transceiver permits the implementation of 10Gbps ring or mesh architecture
stacking links with CAT 5e cable with a standard RJ45 connector – considered to be much less expensive than existing
connectors and cables presently in use. Noting the potential to reduce costs was Sreen Raghavan, Vativ Technologies' CEO,
"This latest addition to our V10LAN family will further help drive down the cost of 10-Gigabit Ethernet in the data center.
It expands our leadership position in 10-Gigabit Ethernet UTP transceivers."
The chip, manufactured in 0.13 CMOS technology, is expected to lower
the cost for interconnecting stackable equipment. Pricing for the VTV1115 transceiver was given at $75 in quantities of 10,000.
Volume production has been scheduled for the fourth quarter, samples are available now.
JUNE 15th, 2005
Teknovus Places Quad EPON OLT Chip Set On Market
Teknovus has announced what it calls the world's first Quad EPON OLT (Optical Line Terminal
) chipset. The TK3722 Quad OLT, designed to minimize capital expenditures at the Central Office (CO) equipment can be used
to support one to four unique PON networks.
With the announcement of the chip, Teknovus also said that were
now over one million subscribers to the Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON). Dr. Rex Naden, CEO of Teknovus, summarized
the chip's benefits for its customers as follows, "With the TK3722 Quad OLT solution, we provide a scalable, robust and cost-effective
solution to our customers who want to get to market quickly with minimal capital expenditure. For these customers, the cost
advantages are immediate as the Quad OLT solution provides a 60% reduction in components on the OLT. Further, fewer parts
means increased reliability, lower total system power consumption, reduced cooling requirements, reduced board space, and
lower electro-magnetic interference (EMI)."
JUNE 9th, 2005
Tehuti Networks' Series A Funding Valued at $4.2 Million
Tehuti Networks, a network traffic accelerator chip company, has completed $4.2 million in
Series A financing. The round was led by Alice Ventures and joined by its existing investors, Alice Lab and ProSeed Venture
Capital Fund.
Miki Granski, Chairman of the Board of Tehuti Networks, with the
funding announcement commented on the company's technology, "Tehuti Networks has developed a unique approach to solving the
TCP/IP processing problem that is becoming critical for many large enterprises. The company's unique value proposition combined
with the executive team's proven leadership and operational experience will enable Tehuti Networks to capitalize on a significant
market opportunity." Tehuti also claims that its current Network Traffic Accelerator chip technology improves system performance
up to five times.
JUNE 7th, 2005
Ample Communications, a fabless semiconductor company that pegs
its market as the wire line network systems market, has now shipped over 100,000 1GE MAC (Gigabite Ethernet Media Access Controller)
ports. The accomplished was attributed to the markets acceptance of the company's line of Harrier chips.
Marek Tlalka, Vice President of Marketing for Ample Communications,
in step with the announcement, noted return customers and numerous design wins, "Our shipment numbers show that customers
are continually relying on our product for their 1GE MAC needs. Many of the shipments are to repeat customers. We are proud
of Harrier's capabilities and are committed to continuing our growth in this market. In addition to the 100,000 ports shipped
we also have over 40 design wins, many of which are expected to ramp to production this year." The company's lists its chip
applications as Ethernet switches, security appliances, routers and access devices for the enterprise and metro network base.
JUNE 1st, 2005
Stretch, Inc. has selected Mentor Graphics (NASDAQ:MENT) IP core
design technology. Specifically, Stretch licensed Mentor Graphics’ 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Media Access Controller
(MAC) Intellectual Property (IP). Stretch's S5620 processor, which was just recently announced, is based on Mentor's 10/100/1000
Ethernet MAC (PE-MCXMAC). Stretch's S5610 processor also was based on Mentor's Ethernet IP core.
Commenting on the selection of Mentor's IP was Reynette Au, Vice
President of Marketing at Stretch. "We selected Mentor based on their expertise, solid product quality, and position as the
industry leader for Ethernet MAC IP. Mentor's 10/100/1000 Ethernet IP was the perfect solution for our processor design --
the ease of integration and exceptional customer support were other key factors in our decision to adopt Mentor Graphics IP."
MAY 23rd, 2005
Quellan Inc, based in Atlanta, Georgia, announced its Nx2000 6.25 Gbps
Quad Wideband Noise Canceller. The chip, designed as a companion chip to the company's Eq601 Wideband Equalizer, overcomes
timing delays that are normally associated with wire traces, cables and connectors in high speed applications such as network
communications. The new technologies' capability to increase the speed of the enterprise without expensive high-speed equipment
was confirmed by Tony Stelliga, Quellan's President and CEO, "The Nx2000 provides OEM's the interconnect performance they've
been dreaming of -- up to a 400% increase in speed -- all without having to change their interconnect infrastructure. This
greatly reduces both capital equipment and development costs, while preventing costly network downtime required to install
new interconnects. The Nx2000 quad canceller is fully adaptive to ensure the highest performance across a wide range possible
system variations in Telecom/Enterprise, Network Storage, and Computing Applications."
The Nx2000 chip, an analog VLSI design with over 4000 discrete analog devices,
is based on an algorithm that synthesizes network signal interference and then determines and applies a noise correction signal.
In order to accomplish this, the chip is placed between the connector and the transceiver to cancel any signal coupling between
local transmitters and adjacent receivers. To give the Nx2000 fully adaptive phase, amplitude and frequency control the chip
includes eight channel emulator cores.
The chip, which has applications in a number of "market-demanding" areas,
is priced at $99.00 in quantities of $500.00 and up. Power consumption is rated at 600 mW per receive channel.
MAY 11th, 2005
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM), with over 100 million Gigabit PHY ports
shipped to date, announced another member to its line of PHY devices, the BCM5382 PHY chip. This chip is intended to complement
Broadcom's BCM1103 IP Phone chip to give the designer a two-chip Gigabit IP phone solution.
Nariman Yousefi, Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom's Networking
Physical Layer/Optical Line of Business, spoke about the speed and real estate advantages of the solution, "Our new BCM5482
dual port GbE transceiver is ideally positioned to accelerate the migration of IP phones to faster speeds removing the IP
phone as a network bottleneck. In addition to bridging the IP phone gap between Gigabit Ethernet networks and PCs, our new
dual port transceiver offers a more cost-effective solution (one chip versus two single port transceivers) and takes up less
real estate in space-constrained IP phone configurations."
The BCM5482 is part of Broadcom's 0.13-micron Gigabit Ethernet-over-copper
physical layer (PHY) device family, which includes over 25 additional quad and single port PHY/transceiver products. The Broadcom
BCM1103 IP phone chip, which Broadcom bills as the world's first GbE VoIP chip, is sampling now. The BCM5482 dual port GbE
transceiver is also sampling. Broadcom gave the price as $8.40 - quantities of 10,000 units.
MAY 10th, 2005
Fulcrum Brings in $20
Million of Venture Capital for Clockless Technology Fulcrum Microsystems, a fabless low-latency interconnect chip company, has raised $20 million
in a Series C funding round. Granite Ventures led the financing round which was joined by existing investors Infinity Capital,
New Enterprise Associates, Palomar Ventures and Worldview Technology Partners.
Sam Kingsland, Managing Director of
Granite Ventures commented on the market for Fulcrum's clockless technology, "The Fulcrum team has proven their ability to
deliver commercial devices that are differentiated by the virtues of their unique clockless technology. We're looking forward
to working with the company as it leverages its technology to capitalize on exciting new opportunities in the data center."
Fulcrum's technology, a clockless technology, eliminates the system clock from a design. The company indicates that
such a design methodology results in lower power consumption, reduced design time, and lower costs via the capability to more
easily include more logic functions in a chip.
APRIL 12th, 2005
Perfisans Networks Corp. (OTCBB:PFNH), a public fabless chip company focused
on the Gigabit Ethernet market, is now on Aurelius Consulting Group, Inc. radar screen. Aurelius, which has started analyst
coverage of Perfisans, will also lead Perfisans' institutional and retail investor relations programs.
Perfisans offers the ENA1001 Gigabit Ethernet Accelerator chip. A chip
that according to a contracted report has won acceptance in the network market. Mr. Joe Berwind, who wrote the contracted
buy-side report about Perfisans stated, "With current bookings of $1.5 million, and a further $3.0 million anticipated, Perfisans
is well on track to meet its $8.0 million target for 2005, with 3/4 of the year remaining. It also sees nothing ahead of the
company to inhibit it or reduce estimates for the out years. The Company is apparently poised for a period of hyper-growth.
Indeed, management's own estimates for sales growth illustrate a lucrative opportunity I have not witnessed very often. Should
the Company succeed and meet its projections, investors at these levels and appreciably higher could be handsomely rewarded."
To Hon Lam, CEO of Perfisans clarified the outlook given in the report,
"I look forward to this report reaching our shareholders as it definitely shows the opportunity that Perfisans has in an ever-growing
market. Although Perfisans has operated on limited resources in the past year, we have reached many milestones due to our
terrific team of engineers and our contacts within this sector. As such, since launching our first product in September 2004,
we have secured our first orders during the last quarter of 2004 and look forward to securing additional orders in the next
two quarters."
Perfisans Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2001.
APRIL 6th, 2005
Big Bear Networks, a company that offers both network chips and
modules, has introduced a family of 10GBASE-LRM transponders. These transponders, which are based on the IEEE 802.3aq draft
standard, enable the transmission of 10 Gbps data over 300 meters of multi-mode fiber for Fiber Distributed Data Interface
(FDDI) applications. According to Big Bear, critical to the transponders performance is the advanced Big Bear electronic
dispersion compensation integrated circuit inside. Big Bear indicates that the chip compensates for the significant signal
distortion noted at 10 Gbps in multimode fiber.
Big Bear President and CEO Amit Jain, commented on the market
potential, "The installed base of FDDI optical cable is estimated to be more than 60% of the existing fiber used in
enterprises to connect switches to each other. As more desktop connections are Gigabit Ethernet enabled, the aggregated risers
in buildings need to be upgraded to 10GbE, utilizing the ubiquitous multi-mode fiber. We believe the market opportunity for
Big Bear is tremendous."
MARCH 4, 2005
BinOptics Enters High Growth Passive Optical Network Market
BinOptics has revealed its intent to enter the Passive Optical Network
(PON) market, a market whose goal is to cost-effectively solve the last mile problem. Towards this goal, BinOptics will report
on its PON diplexer chip at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference in Anaheim, which is scheduled to start soon. BinOptics
will describe an optical network unit (ONU)chip, which integrates a Horizontal Cavity Surface Emitting Laser, a high speed
receive detector and a monitor photodetector. The company says the low cost solution is a direct result of its etched facet
technology. The chip is expected to enable fiber to the home (FTTH) deployment.
FEBRUARY 28th, 2005
Solarflare’s Ethernet-Over-Copper Technology Funding
Tops $78 Million
With
Solarflare’s latest round of founding, an eye-brow raising $48 million, the company now has raised over $78 million.
The latest round investors included Oak Investment Partners, Foundation Capital, Anthem Venture Partners, Intel Capital and
Miramar Ventures. Bandel Carano, general partner, Oak Investment Partners, who is now on the board at Solarflare suggested
that Solarflare’s 10 Gbps copper wire transmission solution offered a lower cost alternative to more expensive fiber
optic based system solutions.
FEBRUARY 15th, 2005
PowerDsine Expands Marketing through Distribution Agreement
PowerDsine has announced a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro
Inc., considered the world’s larges technology distributor. Ingram Micro will offer PowerDsine’s Power-over-Ethernet
(PoE) products to enterprise customers within the United States.
PowerDsine offers both PoE systems and chips. These products permit
power to be supplied to servers over data cables as opposed to power cords. This enables servers, surveillance cameras and
other electronic equipment, such as VoIP phones, to be designed and installed without standard power cord connectors. The
advantage of the technology is that it simplifies the installation and maintenance of networks and networked equipment. For
example, extension cords or new wall sockets would not have to be installed for many applications.
PowerDsine for its fourth quarter, 2004, reported a 47.9 percent increase
in sales over the same period last year. The increase was attributed to an increase in sales of the company’s Power-over-Ethernet
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FEBRUARY 10th, 2005
BinOptics PON Chips Funded at $10 Million
BinOptics
Corporation, which has under development an integrated optical transceiver chip
for the fast growing passive optical network (last mile) market, has captured $10 million in Series B funding. Investors in
this round included ArrowPath Venture Capital, Cayuga Venture Fund II, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and FA Technology Ventures.
BinOptics plans to use the funds to increase production of its chips. BinOptics’ monolithically integrated optoelectronics
chips, like a number of other photonic chip companies that have received funding, are based on an indium phosphide process.
FEBRUARY 1, 2005
Passive Optical Network Chip Market Expands
The two chip start-ups
that have captured interest in the promising Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) market both have announced expansion
moves. Passave, which increased its employee count three-fold over the last year, says that it has opened new headquarters
in the United States. Passave also recently opened a subsidiary in Japan, which is considered the largest fiber to the home (FTTH)
market. To expand its research drive, Passave also counts a new R&D facility in Israel as part of its expansion moves. What drives the growth at Passave? Try sales
of over 2 million EPON silicon ports in 2004, partnerships with Mitsubishi Electric and UTStarcom and its new product releases.
The company also has a new technology called programmable DBA (dynamic bandwidth allocation).
Not to be out done, at
least completely, Teknovus, Inc. another EPON chipset company, announced it opened Teknovus Japan,
based in Tokyo. Teknovus offers a triple-play solution for
the FTTH market. This technology enables communications and entertainment services such as video over IP, HDTV and video on
demand. The company says its chipset solutions offer drastically reduced power usage and zero-touch software upgrades.
JANUARY 19th, 2005
Ethernet Chips Populate DSS Network’s Products
In other chip news, DSS Network’s Model 6468 network card includes Broadcom's BCM5388 chip switch, and Intel’s
41210 PCI-Express bridge and Intel’s 82546 dual port PCI-X MAC-PHY chip.
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There are over 100 chip companies in the Ethernet market. However these companies address different segments. The most
advanced companies have 10 Gbps Ethernet chips available. Others have 1 Gbps, 100 Mbps, and 10 Mbps versions. Emerging areas
in the Ethernet market include Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) chips and extended distance Ethernet (10BaseS).
The Power over Ethernet market is another high growth market. The companies in this market are covered in the PowerLine
Communications segment of this directory.
The companies in green provide Ethernet chips and / or IP cores. The companies in red provide Ethernet cores
or design services
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