Bay has been delivering full-line rate 10Gbps Montego®-based system solutions to the U.S. Government for more than one year. Its contracts include the sale of existing products as well as on-going development of Bay's Internetworking Processor™ (InP) family for higher speed (up to 40G) data transfer rates for use within these networks of the federal government. Bay's InP family is scalable, intelligent, and ultra-high performance, suited for the full range of carrier class products.

"Bay has been an excellent technology partner for the federal government, and has clearly demonstrated its ability to develop leading edge technology and products for next generation secure broadband networks," said Paul Kaminski, former Under Secretary of Defense and member of Bay Microsystems' board of directors

Bay's InP family is the heart of solutions that can mediate, aggregate, switch and transport voice, video and data traffic across network domains including LAN, SAN and WAN. These solutions are achieved through the InP family's unique protocol agile processing capabilities. This processing empowers maximum line rate operation for interworking and mediation of IPv4, IPv6, ATM, Frame Relay, SONET, Fibre Channel, GFP and other protocols simultaneously. The InP family includes Montego, the industry's only OC192c/10G processor capable of classification, policing, segmentation and reassembly, and traffic management at wire rate. The second member of the InP family is Biscayne™, a programmable classification processor that can parse, classify and police packets and cells at rates up to 16 Gbps, at minimum packet size regardless of traffic patterns.

Bay Microsystems is a privately held communications technology company delivering the building blocks of programmable network processors, software and subsystems for high performance intelligent networks. Bay's Internetworking Processor™ (InP) family is scalable, intelligent, and ultra-high performance, suited for the full range of carrier class products from "Access to Long-Haul." The InP family includes the industry's first OC192c/10G processor capable of classification, policing, segmentation and reassembly, and traffic management at wire rate.

Bay's InP products are in use within broadband networks developed by the US Government and commercial providers serving the metro-edge, metro-core, regional and long-haul markets. Bay's seasoned management and world-class engineering teams have three generations of proven expertise in architecture, implementation, deployment, marketing and management of network processing solutions. For more information visit www.baymicrosystems.com.

Montego and Bay Microsystems are registered trademarks in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Internetworking Processor and Biscayne are trademarks of Bay Microsystems. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.