| 4th November - Centillium Communications announced that NEC
has selected Centillium's pioneering Entropia III VoIP media
gateway solution to help power advanced Internet Protocol (IP)
services for NGN and 3G wireless infrastructure deployments.
NEC chose Centillium's Entropia VoIP solution because it provides
carrier-quality voice and media functions, as well as powerful
processing, efficient power usage, rich software features and
flexibility that are critical to the deployment of state-of-the-art
NGN and 3G networks for leading service providers in Japan.
"We look to Centillium to provide us with leading-edge
technology and resources as we deliver NGN, fixed-mobile convergence
(FMC) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services that combine
voice and data capabilities on both wireless and wireline
networks," said Toshio Suzuki, assistant general manager,
NEC Communication Systems. "Entropia III's superior processing
power, low power consumption and technically advanced software
features provide us with clear competitive advantages as we
deploy both NGN and 3G wireless infrastructures for carriers
in Japan and around the world."
Centillium's Entropia III product is an advanced system-on-chip
solution targeted at the converged wireline and wireless networks.
In addition to the wireline and wireless codec functionality,
Entropia III also offers FMC and IMS capabilities that enable
service providers such as NTT to deliver voice and data on
the converged wireline and wireless networks. "As widespread
VoIP deployments are expected to continue for the next few
years, Centillium, with its feature-rich Entropia III solution,
is expected to accelerate service provider deployments,"
says Govind Krishna Kumar, Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan.
"Centillium is excited to be a vital part of NEC's NGN
and 3G wireless infrastructure deployment in Japan,"
said Faraj Aalaei, CEO and co-founder, Centillium Communications.
"Our vision is to develop and deliver technology that
will change communications in the consumer and enterprise
sectors in ways never thought possible. Innovations in our
Entropia VoIP media gateway, such as transcoding, interworking
and seamless handoff implemented in a power-efficient, high-performance
platform, are key to making this happen. We are dedicated
to introducing the most innovative products in the market."
The Entropia solution provides an advantage over traditional,
general-purpose DSPs by delivering more than two and a half
times the wireline and wireless codec capacity at less than
half the power-per-channel. Integrating six patented SigmaPlus
DSPs as well as four RISC network processors, the Entropia
processor, coupled with the 3G-NGN software suite, provides
carrier-grade voice quality, critical to service providers
rolling out NGN VoIP offerings. With a 1,008 full feature
VoIP channel density, Centillium is able to offer an extremely
powerful voice processor in a highly optimized, flexible and
innovative architecture tuned specifically for voice convergence
processing. The Entropia solution supports IMS Media Gateway
Functions (MGF) for CDMA/3GPP2 or GSM/3GPP applications, along
with all wireline requirements. Additionally, Entropia supports
IMS Media Resource Function Processors (MRFP) delivering such
features as tones, unlimited announcements, conferencing and
gaming.
About Centillium Communications
Centillium Communications, Inc. is a leading innovator of
high- performance, cost-effective semiconductor solutions
that give consumers, enterprises and service providers the
winning edge in broadband access. The company's complete,
end-to-end SoC solutions accelerate development time-to-market
for "last mile" products with Digital Subscriber
Line (DSL), Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and VoIP technologies.
Centillium products include digital and mixed-signal integrated
circuits and related software for DSL and FTTP central office
and customer premises equipment and VoIP solutions for carrier-
and enterprise-class gateways and consumer telephony.
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