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Marvell Announces Industry’s First Single-Chip Integrated SOHO Gateway Router to Achieve Full-Wire-Speed WAN-to-LAN RoutingLink Street™ Devices Achieve Highest Performance with Cost-Effective 2-Layer Board Design Sunnyvale, California (January 21, 2003) — Marvell® (NASDAQ: MRVL), a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband communications solutions, today announced the industry’s first single-chip integrated SOHO gateway router solutions to reach full-wire-speed 100 Mbps WAN/LAN routing, which passes the FCC Class B EMI conformance test. Marvell is the first to implement this highly integrated gateway router design on a 2-layer PCB, achieving the most cost-effective form factor ready for manufacturing. The Marvell Link Street™ 88E6208 and 88E6218 SOHO gateway router devices allow OEM customers to expand their product offerings, addressing a worldwide home networking and residential gateway market expected to reach $5.7 billion by 2004, according to Cahners In-Stat Group. The Marvell Link Street 88E6208 and 88E6218 gateway routers provide single chip integration, integrating the Company’s Link Street 6-port Fast Ethernet (FE) switch to enhance network reliability, an ARM9 CPU to increase processing speed and a software architecture for enhanced routing performance. The Marvell Link Street devices also leverage the Company’s newest generation 0.15-micron PHY transceiver technology, which interfaces the chip to external cables. The Marvell PHYs incorporate Virtual Cable Tester™ (VCT) technology, which provides built-in cable diagnostic testing capability, quickly resolving cable problems and decreasing downtime. The highly integrated Marvell Link Street gateway routers achieve the highest level of performance available—100 Mbps full-wire-speed WAN/LAN routing. The devices utilize the Company’s UniMAC™ architecture to accelerate routing performance with pre-packet processing, speeding IP routing and increasing CPU performance. The UniMAC architecture provides enhanced security for systems connected to WAN, LAN and De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) ports. System products integrating the Marvell Link Street 88E6218 device add quality-of-service (QoS) for converged voice/video/data networks, allowing IP services such as IP telephony and video-over-the-Internet. “While gateway router OEMs previously had to make a choice between performance and cost-effectiveness, the Marvell solution incorporates both requirements,” stated Benjamin Niu, Marvell’s Product Marketing Manager for SOHO Gateway Routers and Switches. “With the Link Street devices, Marvell provides full-wire-speed routing and the lowest system cost implementation, enabling OEMs fast entry into the rapidly-growing SOHO networking market. In addition, the Link Street gateway routers achieve extremely low power consumption, providing OEMs with a complete gateway router design that runs much cooler and achieves a longer life span, resulting in higher reliability.” Link Street SOHO Gateway RoutersThe Link Street 88E6208 and 88E6218 SOHO gateway routers include a high-speed ARM9 processor, the Marvell Link Street FE 5-port/6-port switches, and five Marvell 0.15-micron FE transceivers, providing OEMs with a high-performance, cost-effective, low power solution.
The cost-effective Link Street 88E6208 SOHO gateway router includes the following features:
The Link Street 88E6218 SOHO gateway router offers these additional features:
Availability and Software Development KitBoth the Link Street 88E6208 and 88E6218 gateway routers are currently sampling to customers. Evaluation boards for the Link Street devices are available now. Marvell provides a complete software development kit to enable gateway/router solution delivery, which includes complete board support packages (BSPs), APIs, device drivers, and software debug tools for the gateway router to run under a variety of leading embedded operating systems. The APIs support VCT and development of associated GUI applications. About MarvellMarvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is the leading global semiconductor provider of complete broadband communications solutions for the data communications and storage markets. The Company’s diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the terms “Company” and “Marvell” refer to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries, including Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (MSI), Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (MAPL), Marvell Japan K.K., Marvell Taiwan Ltd., Marvell International Ltd. (MIL), Marvell Semiconductor Israel Ltd. (MSIL), and SysKonnect GmbH. MSI is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and designs, develops and markets products on behalf of MIL and MAPL. MSI may be contacted at (408) 222-2500 or at www.marvell.com. Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:This release contains forward-looking statements based on projections and assumptions about our products and our markets. Words such as “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “may,” “will,” “should,” and their variations identify forward-looking statements. Statements that refer to, or are based on projections, uncertain events or assumptions also identify forward-looking statements. All such statements are not guarantees of results and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Some risks and uncertainties that may adversely impact the statements in this release include, but are not limited to, the timing, cost and successful completion of development and volume production, end-customer qualification and adoption, and the timing, pricing, rescheduling, or cancellation of orders. For other factors that could cause Marvell’s results to vary from expectations, please see the sections titled “Additional Factors That May Affect Future Results” in Marvell’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended February 2, 2002 and Marvell’s subsequent reports on Form 10-Q. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements. Marvell®, the Marvell logo, Link Street™, UniMAC™, and Virtual Cable Tester™ are trademarks of Marvell. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.  |
