Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC), or AppliedMicro®,
today announced a production-ready solution integrating high-performance
network storage and 802.11ac WiFi wireless access into a single platform
to provide the ultimate digital media experience for the connected home.
AppliedMicro’s all-in-one storage-WiFi solution enables consumers to
store, share and stream digital content with the highest quality of
service to any connected device throughout the home network. It’s
powered by the APM86491 Catalina System-on-a-Chip, the industry’s first
embedded processor designed specifically to handle the bandwidth
requirements of this new class of consumer electronic systems.
AppliedMicro will be demonstrating the integrated storage-WiFi solution
from June 5-9 at Computex Taipei 2012.
The Catalina platform is ideally-suited to enable this next-generation
solution with scalable, enterprise-class performance and low-power at
affordable price points. The industry’s only integrated USB 3.0 on
Catalina helps the converged solution deliver the industry’s fastest
Network Attached Storage (NAS) read/write performance at 100MBps, a 2-3x
improvement over USB2.0 offerings. Files as large as 4 Gigabytes, such
as a feature-length high-definition movie, can now be downloaded and
shared in less than ten seconds.
The converged platform delivers a richer home media experience because
AppliedMicro’s Catalina integrates several application-aware
accelerators in hardware, such as an enterprise-class QoS engine for
intelligent traffic prioritization, TCP offload engines for both
transmit and receive and a high-speed packet classification engine with
support for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Additionally, the SLIMpro™
co-processor on board Catalina enables low-power operation to meet
energy-efficiency initiatives.
AppliedMicro is meeting the growing performance needs of demanding
digital consumers as the number of connected devices supported by home
networks continues to skyrocket and as the volume of digital content
created and stored by these devices increases dramatically.
AppliedMicro’s converged storage-WiFi solution provides Original
Equipment Manufacturers and Original Design Manufacturers with a
reference platform to accelerate time-to-market with performance meeting
the needs of today’s consumers at price points that will satisfy most
family budgets.
“Our converged platform is designed to offload some of the ancillary
system tasks from the main CPU core, so that the primary mission of
provisioning wireless bandwidth and ensuring read-and-write storage
performance is given the highest priority,” said Pravin Bathija, Product
Marketing Manager of the Compute Business Unit of AppliedMicro. “The net
result is a richer media experience for end-users even as the number of
connected devices grows and as the volume of content expands.”
AppliedMicro will demonstrate its next-generation integrated
storage-WiFi solution at Computex Taipei by showing high
quality-of-service in multiple high-definition video feeds streaming
simultaneously to several wireless clients in a connected digital home
environment. Technical staff will be on hand to answer questions about
the game-changing capabilities that Catalina is bringing to
next-generation home networks. To schedule an appointment for a
demonstration, contact Tally Kaplan, Director of Corporate Marketing, at tkaplan@apm.com.
AppliedMicro Overview
AppliedMicro is a global leader in energy conscious computing solutions
for telco, enterprise, data center, consumer and SMB applications. With
a heritage of innovation in high-speed connectivity and high-performance
computing, AppliedMicro delivers silicon solutions that dramatically
lower total cost of ownership for service provider and data center
infrastructures. AppliedMicro's corporate headquarters are located in
Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering offices are located
throughout the world. For further information regarding AppliedMicro,
visit the company's Web site at http://www.apm.com.
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Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. All other product or service names
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