RAD Selects EZchip's Carrier-Ethernet Access Network Processors

YOKNEAM, Israel, February 19  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EZchip Technologies Ltd. (a LanOptics Ltd. company, NASDAQ:EZCH), a fabless semiconductor company providing Ethernet network processors, today announced that RAD Data Communications, a leading provider of broadband technologies for fixed and mobile operators, has selected EZchip's Access network processors, the NPA product family, for several new carrier-class products. RAD has selected EZchip's NP-2 and NP-3 high-speed network processors in the past and has now selected the recently announced NPA family of Ethernet access network processors in several of its new Ethernet-centric access platforms scheduled for release throughout 2008 and 2009.

"As a leading provider of broadband access solutions, RAD places great value on the importance of implementing new Ethernet solutions with the flexibility to support multiple services and features as enabled by EZchip's NPA family of network processors," said Amir Karo, VP Marketing, RAD Data Communications. "EZchip's versatile network processors give us a common architecture that can make efficient use of our development investments and be employed across a variety of product lines."

"EZchip is the only NPU vendor offering a series of Ethernet network processors for the carrier edge, metro and access markets, with throughputs ranging from 1-Gigabit to 100-Gigabits," said Amir Eyal, EZchip's Vice President of Business Development. "We are delighted that RAD, a leading provider of access solutions, has selected EZchip's high-speed NPUs along with our recently announced NPA access NPUs for use in its diverse product lines."

EZchip's NPUs provide Carrier Ethernet Switches and Routers (CESR) vendors and Carrier Ethernet Access vendors with flexible packet processing and integration of the key functions needed in access, metro and edge networks for delivering triple-play services. EZchip's NPU highlights include:

- NP-2, NP-3 and NP-4 family of high-speed NPUs, providing throughput of 20Gbps, 30Gbps and 100Gbps respectively.

- NPA family of access NPUs, providing throughput of up to 10Gbps with several chip models featuring multiple 10-Gigabit, 1-Gigabit and 100-Megabit Ethernet ports.

- Exceptionally flexible packet processing enabling system designers to future proof their designs while delivering a variety of applications such as L2 switching, Q-in-Q, PBT, VPLS, MPLS and IPv4/IPv6 routing.

- Integrated hierarchical traffic management enabling granular bandwidth control, assigns individual flows with specific Quality of Service (QoS) and enforces Service Level Agreements (SLA) for applications, services and users.

- On-chip Operations, Administration and Management (OAM) processing offload enabling reliability and high availability in Carrier Ethernet networks.

- Software compatibility across all of EZchip's NPU families enabling efficient use of vendor's engineering resources.

About EZchip Technologies

EZchip Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company that provides Ethernet network processors. EZchip provides its customers with solutions that scale from 1-Gigabit to 100-Gigabit per second with a common architecture and software across all products. EZchip's network processors provide the flexibility and integration that enable triple-play data, voice and video services in access, metro and edge systems that make up the new Carrier Ethernet networks. For more information on EZchip, visit our web site at http://www.ezchip.com/.

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