Prism provides complex PCBs for Ethernet cards
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Prism Electronics has secured a contract to provide highly complex PCBs for the development of 10Gbit high-speed Ethernet cards.
Solarflare Communications, a provider of high-performance Ethernet semiconductor products, has selected Prism to supply PCBs for the engineering evaluation of its 10Gbit reference design cards that are being produced at its development centre in Cambridge.
Solarflare's 10Gbit Ethernet products are used in applications such as cloud computing, streaming media, Web 2.0, server virtualisation and network convergence.
Solarflare is working with industry partners and customers to ensure interoperability and drive a complete 10GBase-T ecosystem.
Derek Roberts, vice-president, hardware architecture at Solarflare, said: 'We opted for Prism to supply PCBs because of its attention to detail and excellent overall build quality.
'We need engineering build scales and a fast turnaround - sometimes at short notice - for development purposes, and Prism is able to adapt its production to suit our volume needs,' he added.
David Dickin, business development director at Prism, said: 'The PCBs Prism produces for Solarflare are complex and require many small 0402 components and ball grid arrays (BGAs).
'Availability of the materials is variable and Solarflare can require a build turnaround of under three days at short notice.
'Prism is able to provide dynamic production scheduling to meet these requirements.'
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