Alliance Semi Intros AS95L2100 Family RPR Controllers

Alliance Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) announced the availability of its AS95L2100 family of resilient packet ring (RPR) controllers, which support the emerging IEEE 802.17 RPR standard (draft 3.x) at various line interface speeds, including OC-12, OC-48 and OC-192 for SONET, and 2.5G and 10G for Ethernet. The AS95L2100 family is suitable for networking, communications, computing, cable infrastructure, servers and storage cluster systems.

Based on a unique, patented Adaptive Computing Architecture with adaptive logic optimized for RPR packet handling that guarantees wire-speed processing, the AS95L2100 family is the first RPR controllers to track the continuous changes in the IEEE 802.17 drafts and, in addition, support, using a single controller, multiple ring and proprietary protocols such as Cisco’s SRP™ v2.

The AS95L2100 RPR controllers are currently sampling along with a complete suite of software modules and drivers.