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NEW: A
Guide to Security and Content Processors, 5th Edition
Authors: Bob Wheeler and Linley Gwennap. To
be published May 2006. Pages: 150
Single Copy Price: $2,495
This report covers security processors (IPSec and SSL Accelerators)
as well as content-processing solutions. Companies covered
include
Hifn, Broadcom, SafeNet,
Cavium, and Tarari. Also covered are Intel, Sensory Networks,
NetLogic, Britestream, Freescale, and more. |
NEW: A
Guide to High-Speed Interconnects, 3rd Edition
Authors: Jag Bolaria and Bob Wheeler. To
be published April 2006. Pages:
173
Single Copy Price: $2,495
This report covers 10Gbps
PHYs for optical interconnects, 10Gbps PHYs for copper interconnects, backplane
transceivers, and chip-to-chip interconnects that
include PCI Express, RapidIO, and HyperTransport. Coverage of 10Gbps serdes
vendors includes Aeluros, Broadcom, Marvell, Quake, and others. Copper
transceiver vendors include Altera, Broadcom, Lattice, Marvell, Mindspeed,
National, PMC-Sierra,
SolarFlare, and more. Also covered are
proprietary 10Gbps interconnects for copper and coverage of high-speed
bridge and switch chips. Third party
IP vendors such as Rambus,
PLDA, ARM,
and Synopsys are also included.
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NEW: Networking
Silicon Market Share 2005
Authors: Joseph Byrne, Linley Gwennap, Bob Wheeler, Jag Bolaria. Published
April 2006.
Single License Price: $2,495 Corporate License Price: $5,000
This report provides market share information for more than ten categories
of wired communications products and high-speed embedded microprocessors.
It also includes revenue estimates for 70 companies in scores of fine-grained
product categories.
Product categories include network processors, Gigabit Ethernet components, broadband
transceivers, security ICs, voice-over-packet processors, switch fabric
and interconnect chips, and high-end embedded microprocessors.
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NEW: A
Guide to Wireless Handset Processors, 1st Edition
Authors: Linley Gwennap and Joseph Byrne. Published
April 2006. Pages: 166
Single Copy Price: $2,495
This report covers processors found in mid to high-end wireless handsets for
applications such as smartphones, 3D/multimedia, and PDA/media Players.
Vendors
include TI, Qualcomm, Philips, Intel, Freescale, Broadcom. Also covered are processors
from Agere, Infineon AMD, STMicroelectronics, and Renesas.
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A
Guide to Network Processors, 7th Edition
Authors: Bob Wheeler and Linley Gwennap. Published December
2005. Pages:
160
Single Copy Price: $2,495
This
report has
been revised to focus on the mid-range (OC-48) and high-end
(10–40Gbps) NPUs typically used in metro applications.
Also included are configurable packet processors that
compete with NPUs for metro-Ethernet designs. Vendors
include Agere, AMCC, Bay Microsystems, EZchip, Hifn, Intel,
Sandburst, and Xelerated. Also covered are other NPU and
Metro-Ethernet
processors from Broadcom, Cisco, Freescale,
Greenfield,
Marvell,
and Vitesse.
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A
Guide to Next-Generation Broadband Interface Chips,
First Edition
Authors: Jag Bolaria and Linley Gwennap. Published December
2005. Pages: 148
Single Copy Price: $2,495
This report covers chips focused on VDSL2 and PON. Passive
optical network silicon vendors include Broadlight, Centillium, Conexant,
Freescale, Passave, and Teknovus. Also covered are leading VDSL2 vendors
Broadcom,
Centillium,
Conexant, Infineon, Ikanos, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, and Metalink.
We examine the VDSL2 silicon and PON silicon markets, applications, and
vendors
as
we
look at
silicon
for
both
ends
of the wire: CO and CPE applications.
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A
Guide to Access Processors, 2nd Edition
Authors: Joseph Byrne and Linley Gwennap. Published
November 2005. Pages:
247
Single Copy Price: $2,495
This report covers chips focused exclusively on the access infrastructure:
VoP processors and access network processors—those operating at 2Gbps
or less. Access network processor vendors include Agere, AMCC, Broadcom,
Conexant, Freescale, Wintegra, and many more. Also covered
are high-density packet-voice processors from
Texas Instruments, Centillium, Audiocodes, Freescale, Mindspeed, and Octasic.
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A
Guide to Next-Generation Wireless, 1st Edition
Authors: Bob Wheeler and Joseph Byrne. Published August 2005. Pages:
144
Single Copy Price:
$2,495
This report focuses on UWB, Wireless USB, 802.11n/MIMO, and WiMAX technologies. We
provide detailed coverage of more than 20 chip vendors, including product
details and roadmap information where available. Companies covered include
Alereon, Staccato, and Wisair for WiMedia products; Freescale and
Artimi UWB chips; Airgo, Atheros,
and Metalink Wi-Fi multiple-antenna designs and how these relate to 802.11n.
For WiMAX, we look at both subscriber-station (CPE) and base-station solutions
from large vendors and startups including Fujitsu, Intel, picoChip, Sequans,
and Wavesat. |
A
Guide to Communications Processors, 3rd Edition
Authors: Linley Gwennap and Sanjay Iyer. Published August 2005. Pages:
184
Single
Copy Price:
$2,495
This report focuses on processors commonly used in CPE equipment. These chips
typically
operate in line speeds of 1Mbps to 1Gbps. Companies covered include Freescale,
Intel, Broadcom, Conexant, and Analog Devices, as well as emerging vendors such
as
Cavium,
Ubicom,
and
many
others. |
A Guide to Switch Fabrics, 4th Edition
Authors: Jag Bolaria and Bob Wheeler. Published June 2005. Pages:
148
Single Copy Price: $2,495
This report covers multiservice switch fabrics from AMCC, Dune, IDT, Sandburst,
TeraChip, Vitesse, and more. Also
included is our analysis of new fabric standards such as ASI, RapidFabric, ATCA
3.0,
and the impact these standards will have on silicon vendors and OEMs. |
A Guide to Storage Networking Silicon, 3rd Edition
Authors: Sanjay Iyer and Linley Gwennap. Published
April 2005. Pages:
200
Single Copy Price: $2,495
This report covers storage and TCP processors from
leading storage-silicon vendors Adaptec, AMCC, Aristos, Emulex, LSI Logic,
PMC-Sierra, QLogic, and Vitesse as well as startups such as Aarohi, Alacritech,
Astute, iStor, iVivity, Silverback, and many more. The report covers boards
(HBA) as well as chips from these companies. |
A
Guide to Gigabit and 10G Ethernet Silicon, 2nd Edition
Authors: Bob Wheeler and Jag Bolaria. Published
March 2005. Pages:
134
Single Copy Price: $2,495
This report covers 5 key segments: GbE switches, GbE-over-Copper physical-layer
(PHY)
components, single-chip controllers (MAC/PHY) for adapter (NIC) and LAN-on-motherboard
(LOM)
applications, 10GbE controllers and NICs, and 10GbE switches. Vendors covered
include Broadcom, Marvell, Agere, Vitesse, Chelsio, Intel, NetEffect, Fujitsu,
and many others.
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A
Guide to High-Speed Embedded Processors, 2nd Edition
Authors: Linley Gwennap and Bob Wheeler. Published Nov.
2004. Pages:
162
Single Copy Price: $2,495
This report covers high-end embedded processors from PMC-Sierra, AMCC, Broadcom,
Freescale, IBM,
Intel, Toshiba, AMD, Cavium, Intrinsity, and many others. |
A
Guide to Next-Generation Sonet Silicon, 1st Edition
Authors: Jag Bolaria and Bob Wheeler. Published October 2004. Pages:
132
Single Copy Price: contact us
This report focuses on next-generation Sonet, providing
in-depth coverage on framers/mappers and
add/drop multiplexers (ADM) designed
for network edge and metro network applications. Sonet silicon vendors include
Agere,
AMCC,
Cypress, Infineon, Intel, PMC-Sierra, TranSwitch, and Vitesse. The report also
covers
competing
silicon from vendors such as Alliance, Arrive, Galazar, Parama, and more. |
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