high-speed high-capacity packet forwarding engines based on Content Addressable Memories (CAM technology) which overcome the performance bottleneck associated with the network's routing table look-up function.

This emerging market has been created by the demands of the explosion in datacom traffic, coupled with the worldwide deployment of fiber optics and DWDM. These broadband deployments have shifted the bottleneck from the Access and Transport section of the network, to the Routers and Switches connecting to these pipes. The company's founding technical team gained industry-wide recognition for its world-class design expertise in this area at Nortel Networks. A veteran Executive team in all the functional divisions of the company supplements this preeminent technical team.