Comm-Fusion Engine Bridges Multiple Protocols At Near-Gigabit Speeds

摘要

The age of convergence is upon us, bringing with it a screaming need for tools that can handle high-speed, multiprotocol data streams. Designers face daily challenges as they try to equip the next generation of networking and telecom products with sufficient intelligence and bandwidth to survive in an environment where information is likely to arrive over a series of asynchronous-transfer-mode (ATM) cells, a time-division-multiplex (TDM) packet stream, or a group of Ethernet frames. Fortunately, help has arrived in the form of Motorola's PowerQUICC Ⅱ, a powerful family of communication controllers and development tools. They give designers the speed and versatility to support applications with highly heterogeneous traffic mixes increasingly common in today's networks.