- June 2002 -

June 10th, 2002

BFi OPTiLAS and Agilent Technologies allow Network Equipment Manufacturers in Europe to Shorten Time to Market
Interoperability of Agilent’s 10 Gigabit Serial Ethernet Transceiver with Leading XAUI SerDes Chips successfully demonstrated

Evry, France, June 10, 2002 - Agilent Technologies has successfully demonstrated interoperability between its 10 Gigabit serial Ethernet (GbE) XENPAK optical transceiver and leading XAUI SerDes chips. Network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) can now focus on the system level aspects of their design rather than verifying connectivity between the transceiver and SerDes chip, which translates to fewer design iterations and faster time to market. Agilent’s products are available through BFi OPTiLAS in Europe.

“Providing interoperability between Agilent´s 10 GbE XENPAK optical transceiver with networking IC leaders provides a true 10 Gigabit PHY Solution for today´s leading edge network equipment designs”, said Ernesto Prestifilippo, Business Development Director, BFi OPTiLAS. “Enterprise switch and router OEMs are anxious to deploy 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology as it will offer their customers greater bandwidth, speed and reduced costs.”

The Agilent 10 GbE XENPAK optical transceiver is an ‘intelligent’ LAN PHY that incorporates the complete physical layer functionality from the optical interface to the XAUI (4 channels at 3.125 Gb/ s) electrical interface, including both 8/ 10 B and 64/ 66 B coding and decoding. It has been designed to the IEEE 802.3ae 10 GbE standard and the XENPAK multi-source agreement (MSA), co-founded by Agilent. The 1310 nm, serial transceiver has a range of 10 km, and uses Agilent´s own uncooled, directly modulated laser technology for unmatched 10 Gigabit performance without the need for traditional modulators, coolers, or complex optical multiplexing.

Agilent is the clear volume leader in the optical Ethernet market. The company has been a major contributor to the 10 Gigabit IEEE 802.3ae standard. For example, the 64/ 66 B encoding scheme, which greatly reduces overhead for transmitting IP data streams, was developed at Agilent Labs.

For more information please contact: Ernesto Prestifilippo, Business Development Director, BFi OPTiLAS. E-mail : E.Prestifilippo@bfioptilas.avnet.com

About BFi OPTiLAS
BFi OPTiLAS, an AVNET Company, is a pan-European technical distributor of specialist products and services, including design engineering support, to the electronics and photonics markets. BFi OPTiLAS focuses on niche technology products such as magnetics, lasers, sensors, electro-optics, imaging, fiber optics, RF & microwave and other specialty components, systems, assemblies and metals. Some 350 sales engineers and other staff are employed at 12 offices throughout Europe.

BFi OPTiLAS International SA, 4 Allée du Cantal, CE 1834, 91018 Evry, France.
Phone : +33 1 60 79 59 00, Fax : +33 1 60 79 89 70.
For more information visit: www.bfioptilas.avnet.com

 

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