Xilinx Expands Portfolio to Meet 100G System Requirements for Critical High Bandwidth and QoS Enterprises, Data Centers, and Service Providers

- Xilinx Acquires Modelware, Industry-Leading Provider of Traffic Management/Packet Processing Solutions
- Announcement of the industry's first FPGA-based 100G traffic management reference design

– Xilinx announced a massive expansion of its communications portfolio to accelerate the implementation of new packet processing, switching, and traffic management solutions in the industry, in response to the exponentially increasing demand for high-bandwidth and feature-rich quality of service (QoS). This expansion includes the acquisition of Modelware, a leading provider of traffic management and packet processing silicon IP cores and reference designs that can simplify system development and significantly differentiate networking applications supporting 10G, 40G, 100G, and higher bandwidths. In addition to this expansion, Xilinx is helping customers accelerate the evaluation and implementation of high-bandwidth packet processing applications by announcing the industry's first FPGA-based 100G traffic management reference design.

Attendees of the Interop 2011 IT Conference Expo currently underway in Las Vegas, USA, can visit the Xilinx booth (#1880) to see firsthand the implementation of FPGA-based solutions for building next-generation communication systems, such as a 100G traffic management reference design using the Virtex®-6 HTX FPGA, Xilinx (formerly Modelware) traffic management/packet processing IP solutions, and the upcoming industry's first 28nm FPGA, the KINTEX™-7 product family.

Matthias Machowinski of Infonetics Research stated, “By providing arrays of connectivity IP cores and highly integrated solutions for packet processing and traffic management as reference designs, Xilinx offers service providers, enterprises, and data center operators the total cost of ownership and critical timing across the industry required for the replacement of high-bandwidth granola services.”

As the number of users of new computers, tablets, smartphones, and other web-enabled devices increases and each user runs multiple applications simultaneously across multiple devices, not only is the demand for high bandwidth rising, but the number of flows that need to be managed through enterprises, data centers, and service provider networks is also increasing. Nevertheless, users expect and demand maximum performance and a better experience in their applications. According to a recent report, Infonetics Research predicts that the number of high-bandwidth ports will grow explosively, reaching 75% of all ports released by 2015. In particular, 40G and 100G ports are expected to grow from 1% to 25% of total deployed ports, and at the same time, a demand for highly individualized service provision and billing by service providers has been established in many networking markets.

Krishna Rangasayee, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Telecommunications Business Unit at Xilinx, said, “By augmenting FPGAs already fine-tuned for high-bandwidth communications technology with ModelWare’s traffic management/packet processing portfolio, Xilinx will expand and accelerate its ability to deliver the benefits of its industry-leading programmable platform to its large wired communications customer base.” He added, “Xilinx has always provided customers with a one-stop shop that can help them handle high-bandwidth challenges and the needs of networks with millions of access points, and enable them to leverage system capabilities to meet increasing Quality of Service (QoS) demands.”

With the acquisition of Modelware, Xilinx has strengthened its ability to provide FPGA-optimized solutions for packet processing, switching, and traffic management in markets such as service providers, enterprise networking, and data centers, handling bandwidth delivery per flow (flowing with over 1 million queues) and demonstrating scalable high-bandwidth traffic aggregation capabilities (20G to over 100G).