Solutions

The deployment of converged networks for triple-play, IPTV and advanced VPN business services presents service providers with a significant opportunity to generate new revenue streams. Yet it also presents a major challenge in delivering high bandwidth, packet-based services over a converged infrastructure without compromising on quality of service. The problem is further compounded by the fact that that the take-rate and bandwidth requirements for new IP-based services are difficult to predict. Systems OEMs need to build products that can "pay as you grow". Scalable architectures are crucial to meet the diverse quality of service needs demanded by current and future services the service providers' networks will have to support.

Finally, these increasingly complex, scalable platforms must be designed inside ever-decreasing development cycles. Customers are therefore now looking at all aspects of a system's architecture and making decisions as to where to focus their engineering resources in order to deliver compelling, differentiated platforms to the market.

As the diagram below indicates, Enigma's strategy is to meet this system challenge by delivering solutions that combine the strengths of Enigma's HybriCore switches and fabric managers with the fine-grained QoS capabilities of discrete traffic manager and network processor components. Enigma is working with a number of semiconductor partners such as TPACK and EZchip that develop such devices to prove component interoperability and, more importantly, to develop platforms that demonstrate the QoS capabilities and scalability of the combined devices.