San Jose, Calif. — (press release excerpt) — Agere Systems and MontaVista Software today announced an agreement to provide MontaVista Linux operating system software and support for Agere's family of PayloadPlus network processors. The announcement is being made during this week's Network Processor Conference here.

The network processor solution, combining Agere's network processors and MontaVista Linux Professional Edition, targets carrier-class equipment that performs deep packet processing. The bundled solution is designed to optimize system development and minimize costs improving control, functionality and performance of high-speed, multi-protocol, multi-service, and multi-access networks.

In addition, Agere will offer its Festino run-time environment (RTE) for the MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1 operating system (OS). Festino is Agere's network processor-based system development platform.

Agere's PayloadPlus is a high-performance, deep-packet networking and communications solution that performs all the classification, policing, traffic management, quality of service/cost of service (QoS/CoS), traffic shaping and packet modification functions needed for carrier-class network platforms. The PayloadPlus family allows construction of intelligent communications equipment with multi-protocol processing capabilities. Agere's Festino hardware and software environment is the industry's most comprehensive platform for system development, offering the broadest array of development options. Festino includes a software development environment (SDE), an RTE and scalable hardware development system (HDS) that supports Agere's 2.5 gigabits-per-second (Gbits/s) through 10 Gbits/s PayloadPlus network processors and Agere's protocol-independent PI-40 2.5 terabits-per- second (Tbits/s) switch fabric.

 
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