TeraCross announces GLIMPS-1000 terabit switch fabric solution for metro, core and SAN applications

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, June 7, 2002

TeraCross, a provider of high-performance switch fabric integrated circuits, announced the GLIMPS-1000 chipset. The GLIMPS-1000 chip set is a family of high-performance, cost-effective switch fabric elements specifically designed to meet the growing demands of bandwidth and intelligent services in next-generation switching systems. The GLIMPS-1000 supports high port densities with low latencies and QoS provisioning, implemented using a very low chip- count configuration. This approach yields a best-in-breed solution for a wide range of metro, core, and SAN applications. It also allows system designers to accelerate their development by reducing their integration time, while improving their market agility and time-to-market.

The GLIMPS-1000 easily interfaces to the next generation of 10G network processors. Using a SPI4.2 electrical interface with support of native SPI4.2, CSIX-L1 over SPI4.2, and NPF-SI logical signaling interfaces, the GLIMPS-1000 offers a quick and seamless interface to the latest and future high performance network processors. To assure easy integration between the network processor and switch fabric, the TeraCross TXQ devices have been undergoing co-simulation efforts with the Intel IXP2800. These efforts will greatly facilitate interoperability between the devices and shorten customer development time significantly.