On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Anyone have any comments? > This seems to be of only occasional usefulness. You'd need a chip for every > POS/PPP/HDLC connection in the SONET signal. This could be a single > connection (unlikely, OC-192c is rare), or hundreds (DS-1s? If not, 16 > STS-3cs). > -TD > >From http://www.cavium.com/newsevents_Nitrox2PR.htm: "Product pricing at 1KU lot quantities ranges from $295 for the CN2130 to $795 for the CN2560. The NITROX II Software Development Kit is priced at $9995."
Not priced for a huge number of implementors. They probably hope to sell a few hundred develoment kits and maybe 10,000 to 100,000 chips. They don't even put their data sheets online. Maybe they're just a scam? Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
