Vitesse means speed in French. Vitesse specializes in IC products for broadband high performance communication. At present, many telecommunication systems in the world use Vitesse's 2.5gb/s chip. Since its establishment in 1984, Vitesse has been producing gigabits per second VLSI products. Now it can provide standard communication IC applied to SONET (synchronous optical network), SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy), ATM (asynchronous transfer mode), ate. Vitesse is headquartered in California, USA, where the largest design center is also located.