JANUARY 6, 2010 -- Silicon IC electronics supplier TPACK has announced the TPO114 OTN Add-Drop Mux, the newest member of the P-OCKET family of OTN mappers. The company also announced that the P-OCKET family has been upgraded to support the newly standardized ODUflex.

The TPO114 is designed to be a cost-efficient, 2.5 Gbps OTN add/drop multiplexer on a single chip. Like the rest of TPACK’s P-OCKET devices, the TPO114 supports both ODU0 and ODU1 connectivity through a built-in lower ODU crossconnect.

With support for ODUflex, TPACK’s P-OCKET devices now enable bundling of several ODU0 channels to form right-sized transport tunnels with greater bandwidth granularity than previously supported by the OTN standard. For example, four ODU0 channels may be grouped into one tunnel that can transport a 4-Gbps Fibre Channel stream over OTN.

“Adding ODUflex to the P-OCKET product family as a standard feature just a few months after the ratification in ITU-T of this new standard clearly demonstrates the time-to-market advantage our customers gain by using the TPACK SOFTSILICON approach,” said Thomas Rasmussen, vice president of product line management at TPACK.

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