Cicada Semiconductor Demonstrates Industry's Highest Performance, Lowest Power SimpliPHY...

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NetWorld+Interop 2002 Las Vegas

Booth #3051

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2002

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Effective Gigabit Networking in LANs and SANs

Cicada Semiconductor Corporation, the leading developer of DSP and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) that enable broadband communications within Local, Wide, and Storage Area Networks, announced today it will be exhibiting at Networld+Interop 2002, May 7-9, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Among the demonstrations in Cicada's booth (#3051) will be its industry-leading Gigabit Ethernet-over-copper transceivers: the SimpliPHY(TM) CIS8204 and CIS8201. Now in volume production, the SimpliPHY product family ranks as the highest performing, lowest power 10/100/1000BASE-T transceivers in the industry, providing the highest noise immunity in real world copper cabling installations. Volume shipment of the robust SimpliPHY series means Cicada customers can accelerate implementation of powerful Gigabit networking systems in enterprise LANs and SANs, two quickly emerging markets for the transmission protocol.

The N+I demonstrations will be complete, systems-level demonstrations of the SimpliPHY Transceiver Series, including high-density desktop and workgroup switches, and NICs (Network Interface Cards). Featured as part of these demonstrations will be the recently announced SwitchCore CXE-RDK2010, a compact, 16-port, cost-optimized GbE desktop switch reference platform using Cicada's SimpliPHY CIS8204 Gigabit Ethernet-over-copper transceivers, and SwitchCore's CXE-2010 workgroup switch controller chip.

"Our SimpliPHY product family consistently outperforms other competitive GigE transceivers in the real world of substandard and noisy cabling environments," said Cicada CEO Nick van Bavel. "Our demonstrations are designed to show our superior performance in these environments as opposed to testing in the unrealistic setting of a laboratory environment. Cicada's goal is quite simple - to be the best at enabling the trouble-free installation of Gigabit over Copper cabling, which is the key to widespread adoption of this technology."

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