Lucent Chooses Xilinx FPGAs for its Optical Translator Unit

Lucent Technologies has selected Xilinx FPGAs for a new 10 Gbps Tunable Optical Translator Unit, a key component in one of its DWDM metro optical systems. A Xilinx Virtex-II Pro with embedded PowerPC processor running Linux is used for the control and communications functions in its OTU. http://www.xilinx.com/