ARCHIVED WEBINAR
Automatic Protection Switching (APS) Tutorial
Presented Thursday, February 17, 2005

WHAT TO EXPECT
This webinar will explain the benefits of APS

Automatic Protection Switching (APS) is a key service restoration functionality built into the SONET and SDH standards to protect against line failures. This tutorial will review APS as described in the T1.105.01, ITU-T G.841 & ITU-T G.7042/Y.1305 industry standards.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Steve Gorshe
Principal Engineer, Product Research Group, PMC-Sierra

Steve Gorshe, Ph.D. is a Principal Engineer in the Product Research Group and oversees research on ICs for SONET, optical transmission and access systems.

Currently Steve is a senior member of the IEEE and co-editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine's Broadband Access Series. He is the chief editor for the ATIS OPTIX Committee (formerly T1X1),which is responsible for SONET and optical network interface standards, and a technical editor for multiple ITU-T standards. He is a recent recipient of the Committee T1 Alvin Lai Outstanding Achievement Award for his standards work and has been a technical editor for T1.105, T1.105.01, T1.105.02, and T1.105.07 within the SONET standard series as well as the ITU-T G.7041 (GFP) recommendation and the draft G.eota Ethernet over Transport Architecture recommendation. He has 24 patents issued or pending and several published papers.

Winston Mok
Principal Engineer, Communications Product Division, PMC-Sierra

Winston Mok is a Principal Engineer in the Communications Product Division working on architectures for SONET/SDH and on devices and switching and grooming fabrics. He has more than 10 patents in those areas. Winston is an active participant in the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), and the RapidIO Trade Association. He has a long history of involvement with the T1X1 standards body and holds several networking patents.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Design Engineers, Network Architects, Product Line Managers, Engineering Management and Marketing Managers of Telecom, Networking Equipment (Metro Transport, Routers, Multi-Service Switches, DSLAMs) & Wireless Infrastructure.

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UPCOMING WEBINAR
VoIP Technical Tutorial
Thursday March 31, 2005 - 11:00 AM Pacific Time

PRESENTER
Jon Ames, Communication Products Division

ABSTRACT
This tutorial shall cover the technical details of VoIP

WHAT TO EXPECT
Voice over IP (VoIP) uses Internet Protocol (IP) to carry voice as packets over the IP network. It has become an alternative to traditional public switched telephone networks (PSTN).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Design Engineers, Network Architects, Product Line Managers, Engineering Management and marketing managers of VoIP equipment for public, enterprise and consumer applications

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Abstracts for our two most recent white papers are included here:

A Tutorial on SONET/SDH Automatic Protection Switching (APS)
Issue 1.
PMC-2050248

The simplest class of mechanism for network survivability in the event of failure on a network element or link is automatic protection switching (APS). APS schemes involve reserving a protection channel (dedicated or shared) with the same capacity as the channel or facility to be protected. This white paper provides an overview of the different types of protection switching available with SONET/SDH networks, focusing on technologies that automatically work at the level of either the SONET (SDH) Line (Multiplex Section) or Path. As readers become familiar with the processing requirements for APS and LCAS service restoration, they will appreciate the enhanced functionality in the PMC-Sierra CHESS III, Arrow, and ADM devices which greatly ease APS implementations.

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Application of Message Assisted Protection Switching (MAPS) to APS Architectures
Issue 3.
PMC-2021902

This white paper describes how Message Assisted Protection Switching (MAPS) features built into PMC-Sierra devices can be used to reduce the cost and to speed traffic restoration in known Automatic Protection Switching (APS) architectures.

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Intel Developers Forum
March 1 to 3, 2005
San Francisco, CA
PMC-Sierra Booth #104

PMC-Sierra, LSI Logic and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Set to Demonstrate Serial Attached SCSI -- SAS -- Enterprise Storage Products

Embedded Systems Conference
Mar 6 to 10, 2005
San Francisco, CA

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Anna Chiang, Manager of Product Marketing for the Microprocessor Products Division will present the RM9150(TM) in the MPS-941 panel session, "High-Performance 32- and 64-Bit Processors" at the Microprocessor Summit.

Gerry Leavey, Technical Advisor of PMC-Sierra's Research and Design department, will present a class entitled: Standardizing Base Station Design Using OBSAI and CPRI (Class number 3GC-703) at the Embedded Systems Conference.

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JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort, Phoenix, AZ

Supercomm 2005
June 6-9, 2005 - Exhibits June 7-9
McCormick Place, Chicago, IL

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Electronic Engineering Times READ

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PMC-Sierra's Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language Websites At Your Fingertips

PMC-Sierra now offers you the ability to search for product information, documentation and more in 3 languages - Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

To find out more, visit:
Chinese - http://www.pmc-sierra.com/zh

Japanese - http://www.pmc-sierra.com/jp

Korean - http://www.pmc-sierra.com/kr