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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX SPARTAN-3 AND VIRTEX-II PRO FPGAs WIN
MULTIPLE DESIGNS IN MANGROVE MPLS PLATFORMS
Mangrove first to market with end-to-end MPLS networking solution
using Xilinx low cost, high performance silicon and design tools
SAN JOSE, Calif., February 22, 2005 Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ: XLNX),
the world's leading programmable logic supplier, today announced
that Mangrove Systems, a leading provider of metro and access network
infrastructure, has selected Xilinx 90nm cost-optimized Spartan-3™
and industry-leading Virtex-II Pro FPGA devices for use in its latest
Piranha and Barracuda MetroMPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching)
Platforms. Combining Metro Ethernet Forum services, MPLS pseudowires,
multi-service support and new efficient data-over-transport standards,
the Mangrove product family enable carriers to transform existing
SONET and SDH infrastructure into efficient, packet-aware metro
and access networks.
Mangrove selected Spartan-3 FPGAs based on an exhaustive evaluation
that covered price, performance, packaging that included high I/O
count and density along with vendor commitment. Mangrove also chose
Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs with embedded PowerPC processor and Multi
Gigabit Transceivers (MGTs) for control plane functions and backplane
interconnect.
Mangrove engineers optimized the use of a single design platform,
Xilinx ISE (Integrated Software Environment) 6.3i, allowing easy
portability of projects between their various design teams. Xilinx
ISE design tools are optimized to make very efficient use of internal
device features, significantly reducing overall development costs
and time-to-market.
"The incorporation of Xilinx technology into our MetroMPLS
platforms has enabled Mangrove to raise the bar on performance and
define a new level of integration for the Metro and Access infrastructure,"
said Jonathan Reeves, Mangrove president and CEO. "The deployment
of Fiber to the Home and migration to 3G wireless infrastructures
requires higher bandwidth solutions at lower price points both of
which the Xilinx technology helps us to achieve."
About Xilinx FPGAs
The 90nm Spartan-3 platform is the world's lowest-cost FPGA offering
unrivaled price points with more density and performance features
than any other device in its class. Spartan-3 devices feature an
industry-leading combination of block and distributed RAM, up to
784 I/Os, MicroBlaze 32-bit RISC soft processors and XtremeDSP functionality
with dedicated 18x18 multipliers that deliver up to 330 billion
multiply and accumulates (MACs) per second.
Xilinx Virtex-II Pro and Virtex-4 devices are the only FPGAs in
the industry to offer integrated PowerPC embedded technology and
3.125 Gbps serial transceivers. Announced Fall 2004, the Xilinx
Virtex-4 family delivers more options, higher performance and lower
power than any other FPGA family available today.
About Mangrove Systems
Mangrove Systems, founded in 2002, continues to develop an expanding
family of innovative MetroMPLS™ Access and Switching platforms
that bridge the divide between today's TDM-based access and metro
network and the rapidly evolving MPLS core. Mangrove's MetroMPLS
is the first solution to enable end-to-end MPLS networking. Mangrove
Systems is located in Wallingford, CT. For more information visit
www.mangrovesystems.com.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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