"The realization of deterministic wire speed OC192c ATM to IP interworking and cell processing by Bay's Montego processor raises the bar on streams technology and allows us to grow new broadband services for the DoD," said Hank Dardy, chief scientist, NRL.

The first of its kind demonstration sponsored by the Naval Research Laboratory will support multiservice switch routers, supercomputing servers, fibre channel storage area devices, and ultra high-resolution graphic rendering devices all interconnected through an OC192c ATM network enabled by Bay's IDS10G interworking platform, powered by Montego. The SC2002 demonstration will be initiated at NRL's facility in Washington, DC and traverse the Washington area ATDnet network connecting multiple government agencies including NSA, DIA, DISA, DARPA, NASA and the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) consortium. The OC-192c stream will then continue onto a MAX-engineered DWDM link to Baltimore culminating on the show floor. Show attendees will experience 4-Gbps remote fibre channel access and while simultaneously seeing multiple 1.5 Gbps ultra-high resolution uncompressed HDTV video streams. Vendors participating in the demonstration, in addition to Bay Microsystems, include Marconi, LightSand, Silicon Graphics, Brocade, Decru and Apple.

"High-speed ATM cell processing is a critical element of network processing functionality for today's emerging multiservice networks. Montego is the only 10Gbps processor in the industry that addresses these applications," said Chuck Gershman, President and CEO of Bay Microsystems. "Working with the team at NRL is an honor, they have consistently been at the forefront of many exciting advances in our industry, as this first of its kind demonstration is a testament."

Bay's Montego is the industry's only single-chip OC192c/10G internetworking processor/traffic manager and ATM SAR. In addition, the IDS10G platform is capable of OC192c wire rate interworking between ATM, IPv4, IPv6, POS, Ethernet, Frame Relay and MPLS.

Bay Microsystems, Inc. is a privately held, fabless communication IC Company. Bay's Internetworking Processor™ (InP) Family of programmable processing devices combines scalability, intelligence processing and ultra-high performance in highly integrated solutions. The InP™ Family includes Montego™, the industry's first single-chip highly integrated OC192c/10G Internetworking Processor, Traffic Manager and SAR. Bay's highly experienced management and world-class engineering team have three generations of proven expertise in architecture, implementation, deployment, marketing and management of network processing devices. For more information visit the website at www.baymicrosystems.com.

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