Board Design for time-to-market advantage

Customer
A leading networking and telecom OEM

The Challenge
The customer had an competitive requirement for the production of a 10GE aggregator board - to have a first-mover advantage. The board based on the control processor MPC 8240 aggregates 12 x 1GE to provide 10GE - and provides support for 8 GMAC interfaces through the midplane based architecture.

HCL’s Solution

• HCL’s Hardware design team worked on the customer’s specifications and provided a complete design to manufacture solution
• Many years of cross-domain board design experience, allowed HCL engineers to quickly understand the complex requirements and how the board would fit into the customers equipment and develop a fully compatible, quality product in time

Value Delivered
Our rapid delivery allowed the customer to conduct the first 10GE demonstration in the world