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TWST: Would you give us a brief historical sketch of the company and a
picture of the things you're doing at the present time?
Mr. Leichtle: SwitchCore was spun out of two research projects completed
in Sweden at twin universities, the University of Lund (which is one of
the oldest universities in Europe) and the University of Linkoping. The
research groups pushed the limits of switching speeds on CMOS
transistors. The company `launched a business building switches, taking
advantage of the findings made by the universities' research groups. In
2001 SwitchCore introduced the most advanced gigabit Ethernet switch and
released this product commercially in 2002. The portfolio of products
based on this switch was so powerful that four years later, we are still
selling it. Today, SwitchCore is one of the leading providers of highly
integrated gigabit Ethernet switches and router ASICs. We have a great
range of features and port densities for the enterprise and telecom
access markets. Telcos around the world are adopting Ethernet for their
access network to serve the triple play market and to unify their
diversity of data networks they have today SwitchCore, definitely has
an edge in this space because we have the most comprehensive feature set
in terms of quality of service, and capabilities to build reliable
access networks. TWST: You say you have the most comprehensive feature set; would you
explain that?
Mr. Leichtle: Thus far, the Internet has been based on a 'best effort'
infrastructure. We've added instrumented features in our chipsets to
provide quality of service (QoS) to networks. What that means is that
packets do not get lost and, if you were to use or actually buy a piece
of bandwidth and pay for it, you are also going to be warranted to get
it. Furthermore, our switches have basically no downtime when updated
either with data or software. This allows the network system vendor
using our ASICs to basically have zero downtime when they update their
equipment and thus guarantying carrier class quality to network
operators.
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