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| Hifn Partners with Applied Micro Circuits Corporation Hifn and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation have announced a working alliance to provide a series of reference designs for networking and storage solutions. The new reference designs combine the core strengths of the AMCC Power Architecture processors, which deliver a performance optimized PowerPC core with a high-bandwidth memory and I/O subsystem and Hifn's heavy-lifting capabilities for capacity optimization and data security through the company's Applied Services Processors (ASPs) and card-level products. Customers will be able to take the joint AMCC and Hifn reference designs and deliver wireless base stations, access points, network attached storage (NAS), virtual tape libraries, disk-to-disk backup, and other networking and storage solutions. AMCC's highly integrated Power Architecture processors, which are used in a range of consumer, enterprise, networking and storage products, complement Hifn's ASPs and card-level products, which are employed by the network and storage vendors to differentiate their products and speed time to market. Hifn and AMCC plan to create the reference designs as part of a comprehensive development platform that will enable storage OEMs and ODMs to rapidly bring their products to market. One of the first designs expected to result from the new partnership is a storage platform that combines the power efficiency and high-performance of AMCC's PowerPC 460SX storage processor with Hifn's Express DR cards for capacity optimization, creating a powerful design for a broad range of open storage applications, including disk-to-disk backup, virtual tape libraries, data de-duplication and continuous data protection. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |