New Orleans, LA — (press release excerpt) — Wasabi Systems announced at Motorola's Smart Networks Developer Forum its support for Motorola's next-generation PowerQUICC III family of integrated communications processors. NetBSD, long recognized for its outstanding networking capabilities, is a powerful open source operating system widely used in Internet infrastructure. NetBSD's unparalleled portability will also enable developers to bring PowerQUICC-based products to market faster.

The PowerQUICC III is an ideal solution for integrated control and forwarding plane processing in wired and wireless communications equipment – applications that showcase NetBSD's strengths in networking. The PowerQUICC III System-on-Chip (SoC) Architecture employs a host of leading industry standards and innovative Motorola technologies, including a high-performance Book E PowerPC e500 core, an enhanced Communications Processor Module and two Gigabit Ethernet controllers.

 
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