Xelic Announces Successful Integration of Industry's First 40Gb/s SONET/SDH Framer Core into Customer Equipment

Rochester, NY -- October 18, 2006 -- Xelic, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the industry’s first 40Gb/s SONET/SDH Framer Core (XCS768C). Xelic has successfully demonstrated this core in an FPGA implementation by verifying independent transmit and receive functions using industry standard 40Gb/s SONET/SDH test equipment. The system under test was comprised of a 40Gb/s transponder, OIF compliant SERDES and the Xelic XCS768C Framer Core. 
 
This core adds to a growing family of networking IP product offerings from Xelic.   The 40Gb/s SONET/SDH Framer Core (XCS768C) performs framing and byte alignment, transport overhead processing, contiguous concatenated pointer processing and path overhead processing for use in a variety of applications such as line cards, routers and test equipment.
 
 “Xelic is committed to developing highly configurable Core solutions that allow customers to rapidly deploy increasingly integrated systems” said Dave Wurthmann, IP Business Development.
 
Additional XCS768C product information and FPGA resource requirements can be obtained by contacting Xelic (www.xelic.com).
 
Xelic is a privately held intellectual property provider and engineering services company. Xelic was founded in January of 2002 and is located in Rochester, NY. For more information about Xelic, please visit www.xelic.com.