Mindspeed's M21156 crosspoint switch chosen by Huawei

Internet Business News, June 9, 2009

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Mindspeed Technologies Inc (Nasdaq:MSPD), a supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, announced on Monday (8 June) that Huawei Technologies Co Ltd (Huawei), a provider of telecom network solutions, has selected Mindspeed's M21156 retiming crosspoint switch for use within its transport product line.

According to the company, the M21156 low-power, high-speed, 144x144 retiming crosspoint switch minimises jitter using a combination of advanced equalisation and retiming circuits, enabling the development of multi-gigabit channels across the most demanding backplanes. It supports data rates from 1.0Gb/s to 3.2Gb/s and is currently in full production.

Crosspoint switches are understood to provide signal integrity and interconnect technology, which solves the issues posed by high-speed networking.

No financial or pricing details were disclosed.

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