Asidua's Carrier Ethernet Protocol Stack Selected By NEC For Its Long Term Evolution (LTE) Platform

Online, July 1, 2011 (Newswire.com) - WinPath Expert Services (WES) provider Asidua, has today announced the sale of their Ethernet Operations, Administration & Maintenance (EOAM) stack to NEC.

In 2009, Asidua and PMC-Sierra ("PMC"), the network semiconductor innovator, announced the availability of a new family of Carrier-Class Ethernet Control Plane Stacks for PMC's WinPath Architecture based Access Processors.

Following on from their extensive development programme, which was part financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the European Sustainable Competitiveness Programme for Northern Ireland, Asidua launched two new software product lines, WinStacks and WinXtends, to help complement their existing WinPath Expert Services offering.

The WinStacks range, which currently supports Ethernet LAG (Link Aggregation) and Ethernet OAM (Ethernet Operations, Administration & Maintenance), is specifically designed for the WinPath processor family. The stacks are applicable to any solution involving Ethernet interfaces across domains including Mobile, Wireless/WiMAX, Aggregation & Transport, DSL/PON and dedicated Carrier Ethernet deployments.

As carriers on a global basis continue to expand the penetration of 'Ethernet in the first mile' EFM services, telecommunications product vendors will continue to add the necessary control plane protocols to their products.

After analysis of the products on the market, NEC has selected Asidua's Ethernet OAM stack for Connectivity and Fault Management (CFM) for NEC's LTE platform. Software has been delivered and the integration and test phase is well under way.

"Asidua is delighted to announce the sale of our EOAM Protocol Stack to NEC," said Eddie Millsopp, Head of Device Services at Asidua. "Since becoming a preferred supplier for PMC's Wireless Infrastructure and Networking Division, we have experienced a high volume of business wins due to our unrivalled top-to-bottom WES offering.

Eddie continued: "To further enhance our offering and increase our customers' velocity in delivery of their product roadmaps, we developed off-the-self product ranges that would allow our clients to benefit from increased efficiencies."

Mr Daisuke Ogura, Project Director for NEC said: "We are pleased to announce that we have selected Asidua's control stack for NEC's products. The decision was made after a high level of analysis of Asidua's technology."

Steve Brankin, Asidua's Chief Executive added: "Our WinStacks are specifically designed to allow our clients to reduce costs and delivery times, while still allowing them to fully exploit the hardware acceleration aspects of PMC's WinPath processor family. NEC's selecting Asidua's offering serves to galvanise our position as a preferred control stack vendor for WinPath-based systems."

About Asidua
Asidua is endorsed by PMC-Sierra as a preferred supplier for providing a complete portfolio of services focused on the WinPath product family. Asidua's WinPath Expert Services (WES) help clients achieve their goals of Time to Market, Right First Time and Product Differentiation by delivering solutions across domains including Systems Engineering, Software Services and Board Bring-up. From their headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Asidua teams have successfully delivered solutions for a wide range of equipment suppliers including Tier 1s & 2s from across the globe. For more information on Asidua, visit www.asidua.com/wes

About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the company's experience and global resources, NEC's advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society. For more information visit NEC at www.nec.com

About PMC
PMC (Nasdaq:PMCS) is the semiconductor innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store digital content. Building on a track record of technology leadership, we are driving innovation across storage, optical and mobile networks. Our highly integrated solutions increase performance and enable next generation services to accelerate the network transformation. For more information visit www.pmc-sierra.com