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To learn more about PMC-Sierra's broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless infrastructure, storage, laser printers and customer premises equipment, visit www.pmc-sierra.com.

New Products
ARROW2488

Industry’s Highest Capacity Single-Chip Solution for Optical Access Aggregation

The PM5336 ARROW 2488, a feature-rich, high capacity single-chip solution, combines multi-rate SONET/SDH framers, non-blocking STS/AU and VT/TU cross-connect, and best-in-class backplane SERDES for next generation compact and scalable chassis-based SONET/SDH platforms. MORE

AFEs

AFE Devices for GPON and EPON FTTH Central Office Equipment Lower Cost of PON Deployments in Global Markets

PMC-Sierra’s four new Analog Front End Devices for GPON (PAS7351 GPON TIA and PAS7361 GPON LIA) and EPON (PAS5351 EPON TIA and PAS5361 EPON LIA) FTTH equipment compliment our line of networking SoCs for GPON and EPON systems, creating the industry’s most complete FTTH product portfolio. MORE

PALADIN20

Advanced Digital Predistortion Solution Targeted at Wireless Remote Radio Head Architectures

The PM7820 PALADIN® 20, our third generation Digital Predistortion solution, enables wireless infrastructure OEMs and carriers to deploy cost-effective Remote Radio Head solutions with significant capital and operational savings. Combined with Doherty Power Amplifiers, the PALADIN 20 drives greater than 40% power efficiencies with 20 MHz of bandwidth for 3G and WiMAX, cutting energy costs by 50%. MORE

For information on pricing, availability and support packages, contact a PMC-Sierra sales representative at www.pmc-sierra.com/contactSales/

New Webinars

PMC-Sierra's technology webinar series covers a wide range of topics, from FTTH to ROADMs to Storage. To access PMC-Sierra webinars click here. Registration Required

New White Papers

Related Article

Get high-bandwidth for triple play now and for tomorrow's 'killer' apps
by Onn Haran published in Network Systems Designline as a 4-part series

"The challenge facing the designers of the next generation CPE is to find the 'sweet spot' of a low bill of materials cost today with enough bandwidth to meet the demands of tomorrow."

Introduction to Broadband Passive Optical Networks
October 2006
A tutorial overview of the two most popular PON access network standards: the ITU-T G.984 series Gigabit PON (GPON) and IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet PON (EPON) standards. GPON has been selected by most North America and European telephone network providers, while EPON is being mass deployed by some major Asian telephone network providers.

ROADMs and the Evolution of the Metro Optical Core
September 2006
A technical review of recent developments in Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) architectures that can be used to deploy flexible, scalable and reliable metropolitan area networks with a low total cost of ownership.

SAS-2 Port and Address-Based Zoning
September 2006
Discusses the application and implementation of two zoning methods that can be used within a SAS storage system: port-based zoning, a bootable, hardware-oriented and closely controlled partitioning method, and address-resolved zoning, a more flexible method that allows non-zoned devices, but is more complex to manage.

PMC-Sierra has a selection of white papers on a wide range of topics, including FTTH, Residential Gateways, Wireless and Storage. To access the PMC-Sierra white paper library click here.
Registration Required

Events and Tradeshows

ITU Telecom World 2006
Asiaworld-Expo
Hong Kong, China
December 4-8, 2006
Stand # 2008

What our customers are saying

Awards and Milestones

PMC-Sierra Receives Gold Medal Supplier Award from Huawei
This award recognizes the superior service and support that PMC-Sierra provides to Huawei.

“PMC-Sierra has worked closely with Huawei to win market share in datacom, wireless, NGN and optical transport market segments,” said Mr. Han Shengping, vice president of Huawei.  “As one of our key suppliers, PMC-Sierra has provided industry-leading technology, high-quality products and a reliable delivery commitment.” MORE

PMC-Sierra Ships Four Million End-to-End 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel Ports
Comprised of Tachyon® Fibre Channel controllers and Cut-Through Switches, the chipset has garnered multiple design wins at four of the top five global enterprise storage system OEMs and is enabling the rapid Fortune 500 market adoption of high-performance end-to-end 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel storage systems. MORE

...about our Residential Gateway Platform

“PMC-Sierra’s Residential Gateway Platform provides breakthrough performance and flexibility for our High-Speed Broadband CPE solutions. The multi-threaded data path offers the dramatic packet throughput improvements plus carrier-class QoS, integrated VoIP and superior security that our customers demand.”

--Hong-Yuh Lee, President of Arcadyan


...about our EPON solutions

"PMC-Sierra is the only FTTH silicon supplier with experience in deploying Gigabit/s FTTH devices in millions of units. Their devices match the high performance requirements of triple-play services with a proven hardware/software platform that is flexible, carrier-programmable and scalable for future service requirements. From our experience, this is the only solution that achieves the low BOM cost required for high volume deployment.”

--Min Woo Nam, Chief Executive Officer, Dasan Networks, Inc.


...about our Multi-Service Processor® VoIP solutions

“PMC-Sierra’s MSP4120 and MSP4200 router-on-a-chip solutions excel at providing the enhanced performance and cost points necessary for us to meet our customers’ carrier-class VoIP solutions needs. PMC-Sierra demonstrated a solid understanding of our requirements by providing a comprehensive set of voice processing functions, codecs, and turn-key Linux-based router software.”

--Kevin Lai, product manager at Advantage Century Telecommunication Corp


...about our ARROW 2488 optical access aggregation solution

“PMC-Sierra’s ARROW 2488, together with the CHESS family, are integral components in our cost-optimized SONET/SDH systems. PMC-Sierra has demonstrated that they understand our needs. By delivering a robust solution that allows us to leverage existing platform designs, PMC-Sierra is reducing our development cost and accelerating our time to market.”

--Jay Fahey, Director of Product Development at Lucent Technologies

Corporate Highlights
PMC-Sierra Reports Third Quarter 2006 Results MORE
PMC-Sierra Completes Filing of Second Quarter 2006 Form 10-Q
Also Files 10-K/A for 2005 and 10-Q/A for First Quarter 2006 with the SEC; Audit Committee Completes Review of Stock Option Practices MORE

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