Wintegra & FutureSoft align to provide tightly coupled solutions to address DSLAM equipment manufacturers

This press release highlights the partnership FutureSoft and Wintegra have entered into to provide tightly coupled silicon and software addressing the DSLAM equipment market.

San Jose CA (PRWEB) October 28, 2003 -- Wintegra Inc., a semiconductor company focused on the access infrastructure market, and FutureSoft, a leading provider of communications software protocol stacks and engineering services, announced a partnership to provide tightly coupled silicon and software addressing the DSLAM equipment market.

Wintegra has introduced to the market a complete DSL software solution -- a package incorporating Wintegras highly optimized WinPath silicon devices and factory-verified datapath code, integrated with FutureSofts rich suite of Layer 2 and Layer 3 control plane code.
FutureSoft protocol stacks software is OS-independent and runs on several popular OS including VxWorks, Nucleus and Linux.

The DSLAM market requirements on performance, flexibility and affordability have evolved with single-chip solutions being critical to the development of high-performance DSLAM equipment", says Sarbpreet Singh, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at FutureSoft. Our alignment with Wintegras WinPath to provide a tightly coupled offering of silicon with integrated software is driven by our customers critical need to realize better value as well as reduce time-to-market. Further, we can also integrate additional protocol components on Wintegra solutions to address specific requirements."

By combining the FutureSoft Control Plane offering with Wintegras market leading datapath code and silicon, customers have a very compelling solution for quick time-to-market DSL designs," said Robert ODell, Wintegras VP of Marketing. Our new DSL system solution is very robust and provides customers a turn-key, high performance, cost effective DSLAM package. Furthermore, FutureSoft offers customization services to customers for fine-tuning products as per their requirements and to provide competitive differentiation."

About the new DSL system solution:
§   Runs on all WinPath DSL processors
§   Facilitates DSLAM systems from 150 K packets per second (pps) to over 1 Mpps for interfaces ranging from T1 to Gigabit Ethernet
§   Market leading data path protocol support
o   NAT, PPPoE, PPPoA, 802.3ad trunking, ATM and IP multicast, flooding, 802.1P, VLAN and transparent bridging, IGMP snooping
o   Multi-field, multi-layer deep packet classification, and dynamic packet filtering
o   IMA, ML-PPP
§   Complete Control Plane package available includes:
o   Transparent and VLAN Bridging Stacks
o   STP and RSTP
o   PNAC (802.1x)
o   DHCP, RADIUS, HTTP
o   PPP signaling and authentication
o   SNMP and CLI
o   Support for multiple operating systems

For pricing and availability, contact Wintegra

About Wintegra, Inc.
Founded in January 2000, Wintegra, Inc. (www.wintegra.com) is a semiconductor company that enables communications infrastructure equipment providers to migrate their product lines toward the next generation access networks with a family of single chip solutions. Its WinPath access packet processor family offers best in class aspects of ASICs, network processors, communications processors, and communications peripherals, creating a new approach to protocol handling. Wintegra has more than 70 design wins with numerous customers including Tier 1s, and announced production in June 2002.

Wintegra Media Contact:
Jarin Tadych
512.345.3808, ext. 110      
jarin.tadych@wintegra.com
   
Wintegra Company Contact:
Cam Witt
512.345.3808, ext. 123
cam.witt@wintegra.com

About FutureSoft
Future Software (www.futsoft.com), an ISO 9001:2000 certified, SEI-CMM-Level 5 company, is a leading provider of communications software products, services and solutions to the global communications industry in areas like IP Switching/Routing, Broadband Access, Wireless and Wireline applications. In addition to pre-integrated OEM solutions, FutureSoft offers ready-to-port protocol source code products for these areas and augments them through porting, integration and consulting services. FutureSoft has an effective customer-facing presence through 7 international offices and 15 channel partners in 11 countries to address the North American, Europe and Asia-Pacific markets.
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FutureSoft Media contact:
Santanu Chari
Phone: +91- 44 - 2433 0550
Email: santanuc@future.futsoft.com.

FutureSoft Company contact:
Madhan Krishnaswamy
Phone: +1-972-680-5127
Email: madhan@futsoft.com