Infineon Technologies outlined a new "Cost-Efficient Data Transport" strategy for enhancing and upgrading optical infrastructure at the edges of metropolitan and wide-area networks. Infineon has identified four segments of the data over SONET/SDH market that it is addressing with new products and technology integration programs. These four areas include:
- Ethernet and generic data over SONET Framer Devices -- Infineon is introducing its MetroMapper 2.5G chipset, the second member of a family of networking ICs supporting Ethernet or generic data transport requirements. Infineon's first device to address this segment, the MetroMapper622, was introduced in 2003. The new MetroMapper 2.5G chipset, likes its predecessor, offers a hitless LCAS engine proven in a real network environment and extensive zero-packet-loss Layer 2 on-chip functionality. It also supports low-order and high-order virtual concatenation (VCAT) with Link Capacity Adjustment Schemes (LCAS) for up to 128 channels and provides Ethernet Virtual LAN (VLAN) ID processing and enables MPLS label update processing.
- Layer 2 / Layer 3 Switching Elements -- compliant with requirements by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), the IETF and the I.T.U.
- Resilient Packet Ring Media Access Controllers (RPR MACs) -- these can work in concert with (or be integrated with) EoS Framers
- Storage Transport -- implementing new standards such as Fiber Channel BB2/3 (FCBB2/3).
