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An article published in ETMAG by Eurotrade Media

New Visual Extends Range Of Data Communications Over Copper Wire

New Visual Corp., an emerging provider of semiconductors to the high-speed data networking industry, announced that the company has released a prototype of its first semiconductor product offering. Code-named "Embarq," the company's processor will allow telephone companies to transmit data at speeds of up to 90 Mbps across a single pair of copper wires. Two of the company's target customers in the access equipment industry will now begin evaluating the prototype.

Embarq is the first product in a family of transport processors to be developed by New Visual. Transport processors, combined with network processors, form the engine for next-generation high-speed line cards. These line cards are placed in edge access devices like DSLAMs, digital loop carriers, and other access concentrators.

Embarq transmits data across a single copper pair in a single direction as fast as 90 Mbps at a distance of 1,500 feet. This is its asymmetrical mode, where more data is transmitted downstream than is transmitted upstream. Most data services offered by telephone companies to residential subscribers are asymmetrical. Embarq also transmits in a symmetrical mode, where an equal amount of data is transmitted downstream as upstream, at top speeds of 45 Mbps at 1,500 feet. Most data services offered by telephone companies to business subscribers are symmetrical.

Embarq will be deployed in the telephony outside plant across real-world copper drops, where long loop lengths lower this maximum data speed. Additionally, the company plans to exploit unique features of Embarq technology, such as low latency, small frame size, and receiver intelligence, to develop products that allow for the placement of multiple repeaters, thus extending the reach even farther.

New Visual's target customers are the makers of the system equipment that wireline carriers purchase and deploy in their networks. The company released the Embarq prototype to two equipment manufacturers for evaluation. One of the manufacturers is a world leader in its category, and the other is a next-generation start-up.

These two companies have received the prototype, which is in the current form of patent-pending software and test equipment, and have begun evaluating Embarq for use in their products. More than ninety percent of the technical attributes of the semiconductor is contained in this prototype form.

Based in San Diego, New Visual is a late-development-stage fabless communications semiconductor company. It is developing an advanced technology that allows data to be transmitted at greater speed and across extended distances over existing copper wire. For more information, visit www.newvisual.com.


http://www.etmag.com/etmag-news/daily-news/2003/0109/0109f.htm