Agere and Accelerant Networks Push System Backplanes to 6.25 Gbps

Agere Systems and Accelerant Networks announced a multi-faceted alliance to offer a 6.25 Gbps backplane transceiver technology. Under the alliance, Agere will license Accelerant’s 6.25 Gbps backplane transceiver core and becomes Accelerant’s exclusive ASIC partner. Agere will provide the 6.25 Gbps backplane transceiver serializer/deserializer (SerDes) macrocell for integration with its own intellectual property in its 130 nanometer ASICs and systems-on-chip (SoCs). Target applications for this technology include Ethernet switches, metro/access networks, and storage and server networks.
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