Single Chip 40G Quad STS-192 Framer and Pointer Processor

Infineon just released details about its single chip quad STS-192 framer and pointer processor device for SONET/SDH communication systems. The device is called the Titan 19244, and is part of a family of products based on Infineon's 40 Gbps framer-mapper technology. Along with the company's OC-192 transponder, Titan 19244 is intended to address high-density line card applications for the 10 Gbps and 40Gbps markets. The Titan 19244 is a single chip quad-port STS-192 SONET/SDH framer and pointer processor device that supports pointer processing at STS-1 granularity for all four ports and scales to STS-768 for 40Gbps applications. It supports standard and non-standard concatenation levels like STS-3c, STS-6c, and STS-9c as well as termination and generation of TOH Bytes like DCC and EDCC Bytes for digital communications between network nodes. For high-speed I/Os, it also supports four 10Gbps (each channel at 16-bits @ 622Mbps) channels on the line side while outputting four STS-192 SONET links on the system side. Both the line and system side interfaces are compliant with the OIF SFI-4 standard. The device provides performance, alarm, and error monitoring features such as POH (B3/J1/G1/C2) monitoring, line and system side loop-back support, and detection of defects and failures (AISP, LOC, LOF, LOP, LOS, and SEF). It also supports a high-speed microprocessor interface for configuration and monitoring. Titan 19244 is scheduled for volume production in the first half of 2002. It comes in a flip-chip BGA package with 1413 pins and will be priced at $2,590. That's a heck of a lot of acronyms but if you know what they mean, you know what it does.