Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Fast-Chip and Kenati Technologies announced today the successful integration of Network Persona, Kenati's flagship Embedded Linux platform, with Fast-Chip's DP-MR1 'Multi-Rate development platform', featuring Fast-Chip's PolicyEdge services processor.

DP-MR1 is a complete hardware and software reference for the design of packet processing enabled products. Product developments benefiting from the platform include enterprise, content, metro and SAN switches, MPLS label edge and switch routers, and multi-service subscriber platforms. It can be upgraded via I/O daughter cards to easily support multiple data rates and traffic management devices.

PolicyEdge is a single chip, cascadable processor that provides the industry's best cost, density and power metrics. Featuring an industry-leading 1.3 billion Packet Operations per second in the 187-MHz part, PolicyEdge delivers intelligent, high-performance classification, editing, and statistics functions for granular service aggregation of thousands of virtual ports, up to a single 10 gigabit port. Both 10 GbE / OC-192 and OC-48 PolicyEdge devices have been shipping since October 2001 and support industry-standard glueless interfaces to other network devices. The next generation PolicyEdge chipset, sampling in 3Q02, doubles the processing power at 10 Gigabits, adds editing features for new applications and eliminates FPGA shims.

 
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