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Lightstorm Networks provides a new level of carrier Ethernet silicon solutions that deliver connection-oriented services demanded by carrier networks over the most widely adopted and lowest cost transport technology, Ethernet. Lightstorm helps system manufacturers to quickly bring their products to market to meet the needs of leading carriers and service providers. Products from Lightstorm drive the economics of Ethernet to the carrier market and are:

  • Based on purpose-built, configurable silicon that support the latest industry standards and enable network scalability.
  • Easy to configure, eliminating costly NPU programming.
  • Easily customized with complimentary accelerator components for scaling soft services.
  • Able to accelerate time-to-market via development platforms and reusable software
  • Leveraging partners to provide protocol stack, software, fabrics and adjacent silicon.

Lightstorm products enable carrier Ethernet services with:

  • Network scalability
  • Metro Ethernet Forum-compliant Quality of Service capabilities
  • Operations, Administration and Management (OAM) support
  • Protection and statistics

The Lightstorm Architecture is focused on products that are purpose-built for the carrier market and provides a scalable hardware and software roadmap over several generations. The company has recently launched its first silicon solutions to the market, and these products include:

  • The Brooklyn-10 Carrier Ethernet Switch is a highly integrated 20Gb traffic manager and carrier-grade Layer 2 switch. It delivers efficient and intelligent performance without the need for data path programming required by today's complex NPUs. The Brooklyn-10 offers the lowest development cost and least power consumption in the industry and is a complete PBB, PBB-TE and Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) solution for the carrier Ethernet market.
  • The Solas Software Suite is a complete carrier Ethernet software development platform, and it includes a carrier Ethernet stack and APIs and drivers. It significantly reduces customer software development efforts since it allows customers to program and deploy the device without needing to understand the Brooklyn-10 internal device structure and operations.
  • The Brooklyn-10 Development System is a 3RU bench top development platform that demonstrates the functionality of the Brooklyn-10 and partner silicon solutions. It is a highly integrated system with a variety of network port options to enable a wide range of testing and development configurations.

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