Interphase Announces the Addition of the iSPAN 55MC8 PCI-X OCTEON™ Plus to Its Packet Accelerator Card Product Portfolio

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“Interphase is pleased to announce general availability for the 55MC8, in addition to the 36CA, and 55CA. Interphase has been working closely with a number of customers to successfully complete trials with each of these products over the past several months. The 55MC8 expands Interphase’s product offerings of high performance packet accelerator products in partnership with Cavium Networks’ industry leading OCTEON Plus processor architecture and 6WIND’s 6WINDGate™ software tools,” said Randall McComas, Vice President of Sales and Customer Support at Interphase Corporation. “As the telecommunications networks transition to a packet based network, the need for line-rate secure packet processing, packet inspection, classification, content management, and QOS support is the foundation for the delivery of high performance network elements for the emerging 3G/4G wireless, IMS and IPTV network architectures. The advanced thermal expertise we employed within the design of these cards allowed Interphase to place two 750 MHz 16 core PCI cards into a telecom based server thus increasing the packet processing and content management processing densities of these devices. We believe these products will create a price/performance breakthrough for server based content management platforms in the industry. Coupling the advanced features of these cards with our strategic relationship with 6WIND who deliver the needed multi-core networking middleware modules for enterprise and telecom networks enables us to get customers to market faster with revenue producing applications for their customers.”

“Our strategic partnership with Interphase is bringing key differentiation to Telecoms, Security and Network Equipment Providers. Our customers will benefit from a fully integrated offering based on Interphase’s high performance multicore hardware and 6WIND’s packet processing middleware that significantly reduces Time To Market for multicore-based equipment and accelerates transition to high performance packet networks,” said Eric Carmès, CEO of 6WIND.

The 36CA, 55CA, and 55MC8 packet accelerator products are ideal modules for use across a wide variety of applications including ASN Gateways and Base Stations in WIMAX networks, Radio Network Controllers, Packet Access Gateways and Gateway GPRS Service Nodes in Wideband-CDMA 3G/HSPA/LTE networks and security and content inspection appliances.

Cavium Networks’ industry leading OCTEON family of multi-core processors, with low power and high packet processing performance, provide integrated hardware acceleration engines for security and data content, co-processors for TCP offload, Anti-Virus, IDS, compression and decompression, advanced Layer4+ hardware acceleration and future proof software compatibility, making them the ideal choice for a wide range of packet processing applications in the network.

The 55MC8 and 55CA are intelligent full-size PCI-X quad Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards. These cards feature PCI-X connectivity to the host and 55MC8 offers SFP interfaces as well as SPI4.2 connectors for back to back connectivity between cards. These PCI-X cards are offered with up to 4GB of memory and up to 32MB of optional 16 bit RLDRAM memory and are suitable for use with enterprise class and carrier grade rack mount server platforms. The AMC 2.0 compliant 36CA, with quad (4X) Gigabit Ethernet and PCI-e connectivity on the AdvancedMC connector, is offered with up to 1GB of memory and up to 32MB of optional 16 bit RLDRAM memory, and is suitable for usage in a wide variety of AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA based application platforms.

In addition to the 36CA, 55CA, and 55MC8, Interphase offers a broad range of AdvancedMC, AdvancedTCA, PCI-X/PCI-e and PMC modules. For pricing and availability information please contact us at www.iphase.com.

Interphase’s packet processing solutions will be showcased as part of our product portfolio in Booth #201 at the AdvancedTCA Summit in Santa Clara, California from October 21 – October 23, 2008.

About Interphase Corporation

Interphase Corporation (NASDAQ: INPH) is a leading provider of robust building blocks, highly integrated subsystems and innovative gateway appliances for the converged communications network. Building on a 30-year history of providing advanced I/O solutions for telecom and enterprise applications and addressing the need for high speed connectivity, Interphase has established a key leadership role in delivering next generation AdvancedTCA® (ATCA), MicroTCA™ and AdvancedMC™ (AMC) solutions to the marketplace. Headquartered in Plano, Texas with sales offices across the globe, Interphase clients include Alcatel-Lucent, Emerson Network Power, Ericsson, Fujitsu Ltd., Hewlett Packard, Motorola Inc., Nokia-Siemens Networks, Nortel Networks Ltd. and Samsung. Interphase is a contributor member of the Scope Alliance and the Communications Platform Trade Association (CP-TA). Additional information about Interphase and its products is available on the company’s Web site at www.interphase.com.

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