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Ethernity Networks provides the OpenWrt Software Package Ported on Top of its Flow Processor for Broadband SolutionsEthernity Networks provides the OpenWrt Software Package Ported on Top of its Flow Processor for Broadband Solutions
Ethernity Networks, the leading provider of innovative networking Systems-on-Chip, announces support of the Open Source OpenWrt Linux Distribution on ENET FPGA platforms in cooperation with Inango Systems.
The feature-rich OpenWrt software package is ported on ENET family of flow processors targeted for G.fast DPU supporting L2 Switch features. This allows ODMs/OEMs of Ethernity Networks to shorten hardware and software design time in significant way while delivering best in class FTTB/SMB/Enterprise OpenFlow managed solutions and security products. Optimized for leveraging ENET flow processing engines, OpenWrt offers more CPU headroom for services, thereby reducing the system costs. ENET-hardware based acceleration enables wire-speed performance using far less CPU resources than software-only solutions, delivers better performance of VPN, routing and tunneling functions, therefore the product road-map includes porting for other features such routing, tunneling, fragmentation and security.
“Bringing together the data processing capabilities of ENET Flow Processors family armed with ARM CPU, and flexibility of the Open Source OpenWrt enables development of tailor made hardware accelerators for flow processing, QoS, traffic management, DPI and security,” – explains Eugene Zetserov, Ethernity’s AVP Business Development. “The new platform answers the most important requirements of SDN solutions. Our customers now have a future-proof tool for the fast time-to-market product delivery with the best-in-class features for broadband applications. ENET OpenWrt FPGA platform targets different business cases starting from low-end, low power ones and up to high-end enterprise platforms for networking, security, storage and control”.
“Together with Ethernity Networks we can reach more customers with our highly-optimized Linux solutions,” – says Jonathan Masel, CEO of Inango Systems. “Now OEMs have the choice of using our Linux Distribution across a wide range of networking applications, or combining it with our fully functional G.fast DPU and CPE software that provides extensive management capabilities and the highest throughput available by hardware data path offloading.”
About Ethernity Networks
Ethernity Networks develops and provides carrier grade Systems-on-Chip for telecommunication and data communication platforms enabling the Programmable Network™. The flagship ENET architecture is based entirely on Ethernity’s technology protected by patents. The company’s products enable smart networking and are NFV/SDN ready, targeting Broadband Access, Mobile Backhaul, Metro Ethernet and Data center market segments.
About Inango Systems
Inango Systems develops software for a broad range of communication applications. The company o‑ers licensed source code solutions and provides software professional services for customized feature development as well as an extension to customer’s own software teams. Inango’s customers include OEMs in the networking and telecommunication markets and semiconductor companies who benefit from Inango’s experience in providing highly optimized software-to-silicon solutions. Inango software is installed in millions of homes and networks worldwide. More information can be found at www.inango.com or follow us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/Inango
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[MUV] This Wearable Wants To Deliver Your Powerpoint Presentations From Anywhere
Ever wish you had a mobile presentation you could whip out during an impromptu elevator pitch?Well, Monday, Israel-based startup Muv Interactive released a ring-like hover piece for exactly that. The Bird, as the company calls it, will be able to interact with multiple surfaces–an impending trend we’ve seen with virtual keyboards. [more]
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Silvertel - Ag7100, 40W isolated DC-DC Boost ConverterAg7100 - 40W Isolated DC-DC Boost Converter
Silvertel have developed a new 40W DC-DC boost converter. Designed as a wide ranging input module for nominally 12V to 24V, it generates an isolated and regulated 48V-57V DC output. This module is an ideal compact solution for generating the higher voltages needed for 802.3af and 802.3at PSE designs in POE applications to complement the Ag6100. It also includes 1.5kV isolation to meet the requirements of IEEE802.3af and IEEE802.3at. The small footprint and low cost modular design mean it is well suited to any 12 or 24V to 48V boost circuit application.
The datasheet for this module is now released. Contact us for more info.
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LIPS - LUON (LIPS Unity OpenNI plugin) for Windows 1.0 Released TodayLUON (LIPS Unity OpenNI plugin) for Windows 1.0 Released Today
The release of LUON (LIPS Unity OpenNI) for Windows 1.0 stands firmly for the company’s committed effort to make our depth cameras and their associated SDK middleware a platform independent 3D machine vision toolkit.
LUON for Windows effectively bridges the communication between Unity and LIPS OpenNI SDK. With LUON for Windows, the Windows Unity developer can now mix the power of its own graphics animation and the rich functions offered by LIPS OpenNI SDK from raw depth data and RGB data to gesture recognition to create a richer and more vivid gaming experience.
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Silvertel goes WirelessAnnouncing the release of the Ag300 Series Wireless Power Modules
Silvertel continues with its strong tradition of innovation, by announcing the release of its new low cost Ag300 Series modules for Wireless Power transfer applications. Silvertel's new range of modules provide a fast, cost effective means of implementing wireless power transfer and related applications such as wireless charging of mobile devices.The first release includes a matched pair of Transmit power (Ag311) and Receive power (Ag301) modules compatible with the Qi standard for Wireless Charging applications. These Qi compatible wireless power modules are ideally suited for designing wireless charging products for mobile phones, tablets and other portable devices, as well as for direct wireless power transfer to sealed units, for example in external marine LED lighting applications.
These new modules have a minimal footprint, extremely low profile, and require the addition of just a single transmit or receive coil. This speeds up design time and simplifies the entire design process.
PCB space required is minimal which is essential in all modern electronic design where everything needs to be compact. -
Ag103D - Solar Panel Optimised Solar Battery Charge ControllerAg103D - Solar Panel Optimised Solar Battery Charge Controller
Ag103 is Silvertel's latest battery charger module. Silvertel have developed this exciting new energy harvesting module for use with Solar Panels from 5W to 50W output power. Maximum Power Point Tracking and intelligent charging profiles optimise battery charge times and lifetime. Ag103 also incoprorates a high efficiency DC-DC converter. This module has been specifically designed for for use with Solar Panels as the power source and for charging 12V Solar Batteries. These batteries are designed for maximum lifetime with a high number of discharge cycles.
The datasheet for this module is now released. Contact us for more info.
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Ethernity Networks Enables Service Providers with Fully Programmable Acceleration Platform for vCPEEthernity Networks Enables Service Providers with Fully Programmable Acceleration Platform for vCPE
ENET vCPE NF Acceleration Supports Open Access for New Connected Home and IoT Services
October 19, 2016, BBWF-2016, Stand G10, London, UK – Ethernity Networks, the innovative provider of Networking System-on-Chip Flow Processors, introduces ENET vCPE NF Acceleration Platform to boost performance of virtual residential gateways and open residential environment for new services provided from the network. The platform utilizes data path acceleration performed by Ethernity’s ACE-NIC programmable smart network adapter that improves performance of NFV infrastructure by 100 times while significantly reducing CPU and power requirements. Ethernity Networks presents a live demo of vCPE with ENET NF Acceleration at Broadband World Forum 2016, Stand G10.
“While Virtual CPE concept meets slow adoption at the market due to economical constrains, acceleration of VNFs reduces limitations related to amount of computing recourses – explains David Levi, CEO of Ethernity Networks. – Programmable data path acceleration with NF offload to ENET Acceleration Platform makes deployment of vCPE economically reasonable. Moreover, ENET Acceleration speeds up open access for new services such as home media distribution, home automation and Internet of Things.”
ENET vCPE NF Acceleration gives service providers that seek to differentiate services the opportunity for fast design and introduction of innovative and personalized services with granular service control for specific types of smart devices.
ENET vCPE NF Acceleration reduces the amount of virtual machines and CPUs, while maintaining the same programmability and flexibility that offers a single virtual machine per physical CPE.
Service providers by using ENET vCPE NF Acceleration save operational costs of new customers’ subscription, expenses related to operating and managing residential CPEs, and costs of access point devices such as L2 bridges that have a lower risk of failure and require less field replacements. The solution can be easily integrated with any management and orchestration system, and more NFs can be added either through OpenStack environment, or Open Flow, or directly by managing NIC functions.
vCPE NFs accelerated by Ethernity’s ACE-NIC include 40Gbs routing and switching offload, service and performance monitoring counters; 16K virtual ports with QoS and rate limiting; application classification to allow content aware metering; L3/L2 multicast and multicast to unicast conversion to allow home device freedom and to utilize CDN resources. Important NFs like TCP sessions rewrite, DHCP relay and NAT, NAPT& firewall provide secure networking. Finally, IP Fragmentation helps to deliver new services through legacy CPEs.
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Ethernity’s Fully Programmable Switch Pipeline Supports OpenFlowENET OF, Ethernity’s Fully Programmable Switch Pipeline Supports OpenFlow
Programmable OpenFlow Data Path integrated with OpenFlow Agent Ver 1.4 supporting Carrier Network and Datacenter Applications
October 19, 2016 –BBWF-2016, Stand G10, London, UK – Ethernity Networks Ltd, the innovative provider of Networking System-on-Chip Flow Processors, today announced availability of ENET-OF solution supporting OpenFlow ver 1.4 agent that operates seamlessly on top of ENET SDK, optimized for use in carrier networks and datacenters. Delivering complete OpenFlow switch pipeline on a low cost programmable logic enables Ethernity Networks to adapt products quickly to changing SDN and OpenFlow requirements. Ethernity Networks presents a live demo of ENET OF at Broadband World Forum 2016, Stand G10.
ENET OF significantly improves latency and throughput data by leveraging Ethernity patented Zero Copy architecture. The solution supports protocol offload and interworking of multiple protocols, including GRE, GTP, MPLS-TP, VXLAN, PBB, and PB.
ENET-OF allows service providers to provision, control, and manage network switch elements through a standardized instruction set based on OpenFlow specifications. Furthermore, with ENET-OF, service providers that plan to implement NFV will be able to utilize ENET-OF to offload software functions of networking data path to a programmable hardware engine.
Ethernity ENET-OF comes with the reference platform supporting advanced functionalities including OAM, QoS, hierarchical ACL, routing, bridge, MPLS-TP, IP Fragmentation, and many others for 4G base stations, EPC and 3GPP protocols. Service providers now receive the scalable platform that is fully programmable both in terms of compliance to SDN and variations in SDN template definitions, and in terms of compliance with future versions of OpenFlow.
Ethernity Networks approach to implementation of OpenFlow is template-oriented, which enables better interoperability and faster deployment. ENET patterns are called EFT (Ethernity Flow Templates). ENET OF implementation is aligned to ONF’s Table Type Patterns (TTP) concept, the enhancement to OpenFlow framework, and allows controllers and switches to agree in advance on the forwarding pipeline details.
ENET-OF can be utilized for embedded OpenFlow switch and smart network adapter. Customers are invited to evaluate acceleration of OVS stack and functions such as Open NAT, firewall and more on the different Ethernet reference platforms supported under the ENET-OF.
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Ethernity Networks Heads To 50% Increase of FP Pipeline PerformanceEthernity Networks Heads To 50% Increase of FP Pipeline Performance
Ethernity Networks has successfully passed the code synthesis for the company’s career grade switch/router on the new Xilinx’s MPSoC devices that combine a quad-core ARM® Cortex-A53 platform running up to 1.5GHz, dual-core Cortex-R5 real-time processors and 16nm FinFET+ programmable logic. MPSoC devices feature specialized processing elements that answer the performance needs of NG wired and 5G wireless infrastructures and cloud computing, as well as applications with high demand for robustness and security, like aerospace and defense.
By bringing the highest possible clock rate and using DDR4 64 bit controllers, Ethernity Networks will increase at least by 50% performance at the flow processor pipeline. It will allow reaching up to 60Gbps data throughput using single ENET core, and 120Gbps using dual ENET core instantiation. The Improved throughput can pass through the DDRs for external buffering of up to 100ms. “We are going to use this solution for novel SDN/NFV market products, including embedded SR-IOV, and for high density port solutions,” – said CEO of Ethernity, David Levi.