PMC-Sierra Inc today announced that the Adaptec by PMC family of Series 6 RAID controllers will be demonstrated in a 6Gb/s ecosystem at CeBIT 2011. Based on PMC-Sierra’s industry-proven SRC 8x6G RoC and ARC RAID stack, the Series 6 delivers performance, scalability and reduced operating costs. The Series 6 also features a unique Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection feature that provides the highest level of maintenance-free data protection.

PMC-Sierra today announced its Universal Front End 4 (UFE4) silicon, that enables OEMs to develop a range of high performance, highly integrated solutions for the growing mobile backhaul market segment. The UFE412 and UFE448 ASSP devices, combined with PMC-Sierra’s WinPath3 network processors, offer OEMs a highly integrated platform to deliver end-to-end mobile backhaul solutions, from cell-site backhaul through hub sites and aggregation equipm...

PMC-Sierra, Inc. today announced the Company received the prestigious Excellent Core Partner Award from Huawei Technologies, China's leading telecommunications equipment company. The award was presented to PMC-Sierra on November 11, 2010, at Huawei's 2010 Core Partner Convention, and PMC-Sierra was one of only four semiconductor solution providers selected.

PMC-Sierra, Inc. today announced availability of its SynthePHY family of integrated dual channel 6Gb/s SERDES and programmable clock synthesizer solutions optimized for wireless infrastructure radio designs. The SynthePHY products offer 30 clock outputs that can be programmed over a wide frequency band, ranging from 3MHz to 1.6GHz and meet the phase noise performance required by multi-carrier GSM, WCDMA and LTE systems.

PMC-Sierra, Inc. today announced availability of its SynthePHY family of integrated dual channel 6Gb/s SERDES and programmable clock synthesizer solutions optimized for wireless infrastructure radio designs. The SynthePHY products offer 30 clock outputs that can be programmed over a wide frequency band, ranging from 3MHz to 1.6GHz and meet the phase noise performance required by multi-carrier GSM, WCDMA and LTE systems.

PMC-Sierra announced thatits maxRAID Storage Manager and BR5225-80 RAID adapter is the industry's first PCIe(R) solution to pass the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Conformance Testing Program (CTP) provider suite for the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) version 1.4. By conforming to the SMI-S 1.4 specification, PMC-Sierra's maxRAID adapter is compatible with SMI-S enabled management suites from the major serve...

PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS), the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, today announced it has completed the acquisition of the channel storage business from Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADPT). The channel storage business includes Adaptec's RAID storage product line, the Adaptec(R) brand, a well-established global value added reseller customer base, board logistics capabilities, and leading SSD cache performance solutions. ...

PMC-Sierra, Inc. has announced the industry’s first pluggable GPON Optical Network Terminal (ONT) reference design (PAS65823A-KIT) that can connect any Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) equipped with a standard SFP port to a high-speed Passive Optical Network.

PMC-Sierra announced a pluggable GPON Optical Network Terminal (ONT) reference design that can connect any Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) equipped with a standard Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) port to a high-speed Passive Optical Network. The low-power, plug-and-play ONT allows carriers and system vendors to upgrade existing service-oriented home and small/medium business equipment, including gateways, routers, and integrated access device...

PMC-Sierra announced that TECOM, a broadband equipment manufacturer based in Taiwan, has selected PMC-Sierra's solutions for its new GPON Optical Network Terminal (ONT) designs. TECOM's Mini GPON Gigabit ONT is built around PMC-Sierra's PAS7400 SoC and targets residential and SOHO deployments that require maximum performance, high quality of service and small form factors.

PMC-Sierra announced its maxRAID architecture and the first product in the family, the BR5225-80 RAID adapter designed for solid state disk (SSD) storage in x86 servers (see Figure 1). Based on PMC-Sierra's market-leading, multi-core SRC 8x6G RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controller and multi-threaded, performance-optimized RAID stack software, the maxRAID BR5225-80 connects PCI Express(R) (PCIe(R)) 2.0 to eight SAS/SATA ports at up to 6Gb/s and targets dat...

PMC-Sierra the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, today announced the Company has entered into a definitive agreement with Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADPT) to acquire its channel storage business. The channel storage business includes Adaptec's RAID storage product line, a well-established global value added reseller customer base, board logistics capabilities, and leading SSD cache performance solutions. PMC-Sierra will ...

PMC-Sierra the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, today introduced a complete reference design for its HyPHY chipset that supports standards-based transport of Ethernet-based services over the Optical Transport Network (OTN). ITU-T G.709 version 3 (10/2009) specifies direct mapping of Gigabit Ethernet (GE) to the OTN layer by defining a new container for the smallest Optical Data Unit (ODU), ODU0 (1.238 Gbit/s), ensu...

PROMISE Technology Inc., a leading supplier of versatile RAID storage solutions catering to customers from enterprise to consumer, announced today commercial availability of its SuperTrak 6G SAS RAID controller cards with enterprise-level features for use in the entry, SMB and OEM markets. The SuperTrak 6G is available in production quantities through a global network of PROMISE’s select partners.

PROMISE TechnologyInc., a leading supplier of versatile RAID storage solutions catering to customers fromenterprise to consumer, announced today its SuperTrak 6G SAS RAID controller cards with enterprise-level features for use in the entry, SMB and OEM markets. According to a recent research report published by Gartner in August1, “RAID systems have become pervasive for data storage and are recognized as a ‘needed’ feature rather than an...

PMC-Sierra, Inc the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, today announced the winners of its 2009 scholarship program for the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. In a joint effort with BUPT's Institute of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, this year's program supports in-depth research in Packet Transmission Network and Optical Transport Network technologies.

PMC-Sierra, Inc today announced that Aztech, a broadband equipment manufacturer based in Singapore, has selected PMC-Sierra’s solutions for its new GPON Optical Network Terminal (ONT) design. Aztech’s GPON 200E4 - 4 Port Gigabit Bridge ONT is built around PMC-Sierra’s PAS7401 SoC and targets residential and SOHO deployments where maximum performance and multiple GbE interfaces are required.

PMC-Sierra has announced the PM5422 META 20G device, enabling Carrier Ethernet Switch and Router (CESR) equipment to seamlessly connect to emerging Metro Optical Transport Networks (ITU-T G.709 OTN). Carriers worldwide are transitioning their networks to OTN for optimized transport of IP services. The META 20G enables a converged OTN infrastructure across IP and optical equipment, with unified end-to-end network management. The device integrates ...

PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq: PMCS), the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, and Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTR), a leading provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home entertainment networking, today announced they are collaborating to develop an innovative and cost-effective solution for delivering >100Mb/s broadband connectivity to each customer in MSO fiber deployments. The compani...

PMC-Sierra, Inc the Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, today announced the company was selected as one of the top 10 competitive telecom brands in the optical communications industry in China by the Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Committee and the China Institute of Communications. The award was presented at the recent 2009 China Optical Communications Development and Competitiveness Forum (ODC’09) in Beijing.