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PMC-Sierra's VoIP Technology is the First to Complete Compliance Testing at China Netcom Group Labs PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS) today announced the addition of a VoIP Wi-Fi Broadband Router platform to its family of production-ready reference designs for residential Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). (See: Figure 1) PMC-Sierra's solution enables a Triple Play performance wireless home router with simultaneous -- -- Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-quality voice, -- Wire-speed Fast Ethernet Routing and Firewall performance, and -- Video-over-IP Service capability. This solution provides a customizable, Open Source-based platform that allows Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) to rapidly deploy highly differentiated features and derivative platforms. "The Residential Broadband VoIP market is entering a period of very rapid growth as service providers begin widespread deployment of IP-Enabled services to their customers," says Albert Ju, the assistant vice president of the CPE Product Line at ZyXEL, the largest worldwide vendor of DSL router and VDSL equipment. "To meet their aggressive growth targets, carriers are demanding value-added but price-competitive CPE solutions that offer PSTN-equivalent voice service quality, combined with simultaneous high bandwidth routing performance. PMC-Sierra's solutions address these critical requirements and enable the delivery of very competitive platforms." PMC-Sierra's VoIP technology is the first to successfully complete compliance testing at the China Netcom Group Labs, achieving exceptional voice quality measurement results with a Mean Opinion Score (MOS) of greater than 4.1. In addition, PMC-Sierra's VoIP solutions have already achieved Best-in-Class certification results from China Telecommunication Technology Labs (CTTL), and Korea's Telecommunications Technology Association. PSTN-Equivalent Quality is a "Must for VoIP Service Offering" The key to ensuring subscriber growth for VoIP service providers is voice service quality that is indistinguishable from PSTN-quality services under all Internet conditions. "Carrier validation of VoIP technology is essential for the rapid deployment of services in this competitive market," said Dino Bekis, vice president of marketing for PMC-Sierra's Communications Products Division. "The China Netcom Group Labs testing has provided our best results to-date. Superior voice quality together with high-performance routing allows PMC to offer customers like ZyXEL an impressive portfolio of solutions that will ensure competitive, faster time-to-revenue end-products." PMC-Sierra's field-proven Voice Processing Module (VPM) is supported across the entire family of MSP products, delivering Carrier-Class, PSTN-quality VoIP services in solutions ranging from low cost ATAs through to high performance CPE Broadband Routers and Gateways. Enhanced Feature Flexibility and Performance PMC-Sierra's MSP4200 device is at the heart of the PMC-Sierra VoIP Wi-Fi Broadband Router solution. (See: Figure 2) The MSP4200 supports a DSP-based voice engine to maximize the MIPS processor's performance in management, signaling and high speed IP Routing tasks. This architecture ensures wire-speed Fast Ethernet Routing and Firewall performance with up to four channels of simultaneous Voice over IP. A PCI interface provides further flexibility by supporting a wide range of 802.11 Wi-Fi chipsets and other peripherals. Linux-based Routing, Firewall and Management Functions and SIP Signaling Stack The VoIP Wi-Fi Broadband Router software builds upon PMC-Sierra's previous solutions, including all necessary Voice Processing and SIP signaling together with Linux-based routing, Firewall and management functions for a fully functional platform. The Open Source-based Linux application software provides a foundation for ODMs and OEMs to benefit from the Triple Play service deployment roll-out by bringing unique and differentiated home router products quickly to market. Features, Availability and Customer Support PMC-Sierra's VoIP Wi-Fi Router turnkey system design is available today and includes the MSP4200 device, schematics, gerber files, source and object code together with extensive documentation. The platform provides all of the hardware and Linux-based software to build a production-ready product supporting the following key features: -- SIP signaling stack -- 2 FXS ports for 2 simultaneous voice calls, supporting G.711, G.723.1 and G.729 -- FXO port for intelligent call forwarding and power failure back-up functions -- WAN Ethernet port for broadband Internet connectivity -- Integrated 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi access point support and 4 Fast Ethernet ports for simple home networking -- Network Address Translation (NAT) and Firewall -- Fax relay support with T.38 compliance -- Web-based GUI for local or remote system management For more information, contact a PMC-Sierra sales representative at www.pmc-sierra.com/contactSales or visit www.pmc-sierra.com/voip. About PMC-Sierra's MSP Family PMC-Sierra's Multi-Service Processors (MSPs) are designed to meet the performance, QoS, and security needs of VoIP-enabled communications equipment used within the customer premises. This family adds PSTN-quality VoIP capabilities to Residential and SOHO broadband gateways, Analog Telephone Adapters (ATAs) and small enterprise-class IP-based PBXs. These devices offer field proven voice firmware, superior packet-loss tolerance and latency, high speed data performance, integrated security features (DES,3DES, SHA-1 and MD5), standard interfaces (Ethernet, SLIC and SLAC), and common platform solutions from one to eight channels. PMC-Sierra's VoIP solutions enable voice, video and data convergence in current and emerging home and enterprise broadband applications. For more information visit www.pmc-sierra.com/voip. About PMC-Sierra PMC-Sierra(TM)is a leading provider of high speed broadband communications and storage semiconductors and MIPS-Powered(TM) processors for Enterprise, Access, Metro Optical Transport, Storage Area Networking and wireless network equipment. The company offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a network of offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the PMCS symbol and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com. Attachments: Figure 1: PMC VoIP Wi-Fi Broadband Router application diagram Figure 2: PMC VoIP Wi-Fi Broadband Router system block diagram For figures visit: www.pmc-sierra.com/pressRoom/pdf/PMC_VoIP_Router.pdf For product photo visit: www.pmc-sierra.com/pressRoom/images/IMG_4180_VoIP_Router.jpg Resources to Extend Your Product Knowledge and Understanding PMC-Sierra Networking Products www.pmc-sierra.com/networking PMC-Sierra New Products www.pmc-sierra.com/products/newProducts.html PMC-Sierra Networking Webinars www.pmc-sierra.com/webinars PMC-Sierra White Papers www.pmc-sierra.com/whitepaper (C) Copyright PMC-Sierra, Inc. 2005. All rights reserved. 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