The Petabit Routing Company

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Scalable routers for network simplicity
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Who is Hyperchip?
Hyperchip is unique in building carrier class
core routers with extreme performance and
scalability

• Founded in 1997
• 150M investment funding to date

• 280 employees
• Broad patent portfolio

Our Heritage
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Technology Resources
World-class engineering and technology
partnerships building the worlds first petabit
router
Scalable Routing S/W
ASIC Design
PCB Design
Hyperchip Core Competence
Quality Test
System Design
Network Management S/W
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Hyperchip Awards
Hyperchip Named Hot Start-up of the
YearTelecommunications Magazine June
2001 Telecommunications Magazine Selects
Hyperchip for Technological Prowess, Impressive
Management Team and Financial Stability
Hyperchip named "Investors' Choice" Network
Outlook 2001 Selected out of 89 privately-held
networking companies as one of the most likely
to succeed by a group of top-level technology
investors Hyperchip nominated as "Disruptive
Technology" finalist for M.I.T. awards April
2001 Hyperchip was selected from a pool of over
600 nominees finalists for its third annual Sloan
eBusiness Awards (a.k.a. eBAs). The eBAs
recognize successful innovation in
business. Hyperchip Wins CATAAlliance Emerging
Technology Award 2001In recognition of the
recent launch of an innovative new product, the
Hyperchip PBR-1280.
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Milestones Achieved
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Hyperchips Vision

• To simplify the network for low cost, high
  quality bandwidth

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Todays PoP Architecture

• Does not scale
• Limited port count
• Enterprise-class equipment
• Specialized layers
• Diversity of suppliers
• Limited Potential for evolution

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Scalability Challenge
Router Cluster Technology

• ½ Terabit solution using 100-gigabit core routing
  technology

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Hyperchip Solution
½ Terabit solution with a Hyperchip router
Revenue Generating Interfaces
100 Port Efficiency, less than ONE FULL RACK
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The Hyperchip PoP

• Reduced Capex and Opex
• fewer linecards
• investment longetivity - scales to 65k ports.
• simplified growth
• Higher quality bandwidth
• fewer routing layers lower latency
• Simplified Operations
• Rapid provisioning

Hyperchip PBR-1280
Core Router
Edge Router
Access Devices
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Hyperchip Solution
Enables carriers to

• Reduce costs by
• Large-scale deployment of route once connections
• Forklift-free scalability to keep capital costs
  low for traffic growth
• Simplification of the PoP infrastructure
  (interoperability and scalability)
• Increase revenue through
• Simplified provisioning
• High-quality bandwidth for high-revenue services

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Hyperchip PBR-1280 Router
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Hyperchip PBR-1280

• Major savings in both OPEX and CAPEX
• The PBR-1280
• Enables route once core networks
• Allows POP simplification
• Industry leading port density
• Scales to 65,000 ports in one router no
  forklift upgrades

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Hyperchip PBR-1280

• To deliver high value services
• The PBR-1280
• Scales in-service (non-blocking) without
  affecting performance
• Intelligent Traffic Management for improved QoS
• Low micro-second latency switch fabric

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Hyperchip PBR-1280

• Prevents router failure
• Enables in service maintenance, upgrades, and
  scaling
• Saves OPEX and CAPEX
• The PBR-1280
• Has redundant h/w, s/w, and control elements
• Has full interoperability and compatibility
• NEBS compliant design

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Hyperchip PBR-1280

• All ports are revenue producing as it scales
• Platform to last for foreseeable future
• The PBR-1280
• Has revolutionary switch fabric based on
  massively parallel architecture
• Is cost effectively scalable from gigabits to
  petabits

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Hyperchip PBR-1280 Feature List
Interfaces Redundancy Density / Scalability
OC-192c Controller 960 Gbps per 7ft rack
Quad OC-48c Switch Fabric 1280 Tbps per system
10 port Gigabit Ethernet Power Modules 65k ports total
10 Gigabit Ethernet OC-768c Cooling Units
Routing Protocols MPLS Support Load Balancing
OSPF LDP Link aggregation
IS-IS RSVP-TE ECMP
BGP-4 OSPF-TE, IS-IS-TE
Fast re-route

Quality of Service QoS Classification Management
WRR, DRR, PDRR DiffServ Industry Standard CLI
WRED IP Precedence SNMPv2c, v3
MPLS CoS (E-LSP) RADIUS, TACACS, SSH
MPLS Label (L-LSP)
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Hyperchip Advantages

• Massive Scalability
• Up to 65K ports per system
• Maintainable efficiency
• Linearly scalability
• Intelligent Traffic Management
• Distributed arbitration
• Non-blocking guarantee across multiple stages
• Precise congestion control between line cards
• Balanced traffic load distribution

• Robust Software
• Distributed signaling
• Distributed processing
• Distributed routing information
• Faster convergence routing
• Architecture contains built-in redundancy
• Resiliency / Reliability
• Distributed software architecture
• Multiplane switching architecture
• Link aggregation
• Redundant hardware

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Hyperchips Vision

• To simplify the network for low cost, high
  quality bandwidth

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Scalable routers for network simplicity!