May 28 2010
PMC-Sierra, Inc. (NASDAQ:PMCS), the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, today announced that the winners of its 2009 scholarship program presented findings of their in-depth research in Packet Transmission Network (PTN) and Optical Transport Network (OTN) technologies at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT).
The PMC-Sierra scholarship winners conducted five months of research on the following topics:
- “Key Technologies of QoS in PTN” by Rentao Gu
- “MPLS-TP over OTN Node Functional Model and Architecture” by Zhihui Zhang
- “Time Synchronization in PTN and SDH Hybrid Networks” by Ke He
“The presentations today demonstrate that this joint effort by BUPT and PMC-Sierra has produced high-quality research in optical communications,” said Mr. Ji YueFeng, executive dean of the Institute of Information Photonics and Optical Communication, BUPT. “PMC-Sierra’s scholarship program supports our mission to cultivate telecom talents and innovative thinkers.”
PMC-Sierra’s scholarship program supports BUPT’s Institute of Information Photonics and Optical Communication (IPOC), which owns the university lab that China’s Ministry of Education considers the nation’s key facility dedicated to optical communications technology. Scholarship winners were selected after two rounds of joint evaluation by IPOC and PMC-Sierra.
“The quality of the research produced by PMC-Sierra’s scholarship winners is outstanding,” said Tony Zhang, vice president and general manager, China Operations, PMC-Sierra. “PMC-Sierra is proud to contribute to BUPT and to support research into optical technologies that will impact China’s telecommunications infrastructure.”