10-Gigabit Optical Transport Network technology reaching strong
growth levels as AppliedMicro shipments double in less than 18 months
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 25, 2012--
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, or AppliedMicro
(Nasdaq:AMCC), today announced that it has shipped two million 10G
Optical Transport Network (OTN) ports to system providers, who face
growing demand to rapidly expand the capacity of metro and core network
infrastructure. The company reached the milestone less than 18 months
after it achieved one
million
10G OTN
port
shipments
on March 7, 2011, indicating an acceleration of the adoption of OTN to
help meet the growing needs for an increasingly connected global society.
“The demand for 10G OTN is growing at a healthy rate, creating a
sustainable market where technology advances at the same pace,” said
Francesco Caggioni, AppliedMicro’s Director of Strategic Marketing. “The
milestone of two million OTN ports shipped allows AppliedMicro to
maintain its leadership in this market. As demand remains high for our
10-Gigabit solutions in both the transponder and LAN/WAN/OTN Carrier
Ethernet markets, our 40G and 100G OTN solutions are now in customer
labs and early field deployment will soon expand our company’s
footprint. Interestingly, the rapid growth of 10G OTN ports has been
bolstered by its increased use in edge routers, a market that
AppliedMicro pioneered more than 4 years ago.”
Annual global IP traffic is set to quadruple over the next four years
from 369 Exabytes in 2011 to an estimated 1.3 billion Zettabytes in
2016, according to the recent projections by the Cisco
Systems Virtual Networking Index. Growing bandwidth requirements are
driven by higher volumes of connected devices and increased use of
video, cloud computing and social networking applications. AppliedMicro
OTN products help datacom and telecom service providers expand the
capacity of their networks to meet this demand.
“Infonetics’ recent survey shows that OTN switching will play a
significant role in the regional and long haul networks of most
carriers,” said Andrew Schmitt, Principal Analyst, Optical for
Infonetics Research. “OTN switching and transport hardware together made
up 45 percent of global optical equipment spending in the first half of
2011, and we expect them to grow to 70 percent of the total by 2015, or
$10.6 billion. AppliedMicro has been an avid supporter of OTN since its
inception and is a major supplier of OTN silicon to equipment makers.”
AppliedMicro is one of the early pioneers of OTN and first started
shipping 10G OTN products in 2004. The company is now shipping its 4th
generation family and its OTN products include Rubicon, Yahara,
Pemaquid,
PQx
and its 100Gbps SoftSilicon®
OTN Processors.
AppliedMicro is providing Tier-1 customers with full OTN solutions with
increased levels of integration for the continued expansion of network
capacity, routing and switching speeds.
AppliedMicro Overview
AppliedMicro is a global leader in energy conscious computing solutions
for telco, enterprise, data center, consumer and SMB applications. With
a heritage of innovation in high-speed connectivity and high-performance
computing, AppliedMicro delivers silicon solutions that dramatically
lower total cost of ownership for service provider and data center
infrastructures. AppliedMicro's corporate headquarters are located in
Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering offices are located
throughout the world. For further information regarding AppliedMicro,
visit the company's Web site at http://www.apm.com.
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, AMCC, AppliedMicro and the
AppliedMicro logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Applied
Micro Circuits Corporation. All other product or service names are the
property of their respective owners.
Source: Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
AppliedMicro
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(c)
408-483-8370
tkaplan@apm.com
or
AppliedMicro
Tom
Murphy, 831-661-0260 (Media)
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tmurphy@apm.com
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