Agere Systems Launches TrueAdvantage(Tm) Solutions For Saving Industry $120 Million In Costs, Enabling Smarter Networks, In Conv
April 04 2005 - 8:00AM
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Agere Systems Launches TrueAdvantage(Tm) Solutions For Saving
Industry $120 Million In Costs, Enabling Smarter Networks, In
Converged Access - Agere's TrueAdvantage Converged Access
Solutions-Featuring New Processor Chips Equipped with Smart Traffic
Management Technology-Improve, Increase, and Accelerate Converged
Network Equipment and Services Market ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 4
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Agere Systems (NYSE:AGR.ANYSE:AGR.B)
today announced a portfolio of access solutions -- featuring two
new processor chips -- that will allow wireline and wireless
service providers to expand their product offerings, generate more
revenues and reduce their costs in the global market battle to
provide converged access services to consumers. Called
TrueAdvantage(TM), these solutions also allow the wireline and
wireless access equipment industry to reduce product development
costs by at least $120 million, while accelerating equipment
deliveries supporting new services by up to two years. (Logo:
NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040618/AGERELOGO ) A
launching pad for producing more intelligent converged access
networks and services, TrueAdvantage access solutions consist of
five critical and inter-related elements: feature-rich networking
chips; robust software development tools; integrated hardware
development systems; and proven reference designs developed with
global access equipment manufacturers, and turnkey application
software. The Advanced PayloadPlus(R) 300 (APP300) network
processor chip and Link Layer Processor (LLP) chip are new
networking devices that are the first of the family of
TrueAdvantage solution elements to be unveiled in detail. These two
chips are central drivers for fueling higher performance, lower
cost converged access equipment and services. Used in access
equipment, these devices can reduce software application code size
by 30 times and save up to eight staff years of engineering
resources. These resulting applications can support delivery of new
and improved revenue-generating services such as higher quality
standard and high-definition Internet Protocol Television (IPTV);
mission-critical high-speed data services; voice services
transported over the Internet (Voice over Internet Protocol) and
multimedia mobile services. "The keys to unlocking the value of
converged access services are multi-protocol processing and quality
of service capabilities combined with faster application
deployment," said Denis Regimbal, vice president with Agere's
Telecom Division. "Through their proven benefits of lowering costs
and improving performance, these new processors enable access
equipment manufacturers, and ultimately service providers, to
derive more revenues from these services and accelerate the speed
at which they are delivered to customers." Corecess, a pioneer and
major provider of Internet Protocol Digital Subscriber Line Access
Multiplexer (IP DSLAM) equipment, has already chosen Agere's APP300
to enable their equipment to deliver a comprehensive offering of
"triple play" services: voice, data, and video. APP300 comes with
field-proven application software that allows equipment
manufacturers such as Corecess to quickly create flexible, reusable
application software on multiple types of equipment, dramatically
minimizing the amount of software they need to develop. Agere
estimates its APP300 and complementary TrueAdvantage solutions can
save project leaders developing converged access equipment at least
$2.5 million per project largely because they minimize the amount
of software they need to write. "Network processor software is the
largest contributor to product lifetime system cost, development
time, and reliability," said Jeremy Ha, CEO of Corecess. "The Agere
APP300 will allow Corecess to efficiently increase the horsepower
of our Internet Protocol IP DSLAM platform and to economically
evolve it once it is deployed." APP300: Setting the Benchmark for
Cost Per Bit of Performance The APP300 addresses several different
carrier access applications, offering a level of processing
performance typically associated with higher-end network processors
while delivering significantly lower cost and power consumption.
Adaptable for use in Internet Protocol (IP), Asynchronous Transfer
Mode, Ethernet, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and
multi-service (the simultaneous combination of protocols)
applications, the chip supports all prevalent integrated network
interfaces required for access applications and offers as much as
twice the traffic processing power as competing products. This
makes the chip ideal for use in equipment such as DSLAMs,
multi-service access nodes (MSANs), wireless Node B/Base
Transceiver Station (BTS) systems, wireless radio network
controllers (RNCs), media gateways and access routers. "Agere's
APP300 series offers the best of both worlds, a high speed network
processor at prices affordable for use in cost-competitive wireline
and wireless access equipment," said Sanjay Iyer, senior analyst
with The Linley Group, a technology research company. "Agere's
APP300 devices deliver the best price/performance and power
consumption/performance ratio compared with leading alternatives."
The APP300 delivers Agere's fine grained traffic processing
capabilities to the access space. In wireless, where backhaul
bandwidth is limited, traffic processing delivers increased link
efficiency. In wireline, advanced access services such as IPTV,
voice, and video conferencing are also made possible by this
capability. To ensure an acceptable user experience, each of these
services requires a unique combination of network attributes, such
as security, latency, resiliency, packet loss, and throughput. The
APP300 enables these requirements to be met, ensuring a satisfying
user experience and making possible the vision of a fully connected
home in which, for instance, one member is watching an HDTV program
while reading email, another is on a VoIP call, and yet others are
engaged in video chat sessions with their friends. The APP300
series targets a diverse range of access applications, enabling
uplink rates that range from a few hundred megabits per second
(Mbits/s) up to 2 gigabits per second (Gbits/s), whereas the
company's APP500 series chips are widely used in 2.5 Gbits/s to 5
Gbits/s edge applications. Because both use the same portable
software, equipment manufacturers are able to leverage development
efforts across their access platforms. This benefit is a major
reason why wireless equipment manufacturers have elected to use
Agere's APP550 for their radio network controller and then the
APP300 for their Node B. Agere's Link Layer Processor Lowest Cost
Solution for Targeted Applications Agere's LLP ranks as the world's
first to offer a solution for fully terminating and aggregating
packet and ATM protocols in a single device. A packet aggregation
and line interface processor, LLP offers equipment manufacturers
and their customers a swift realization of any service to any
network, by consolidating five different functions into one chip: *
HDLC * ML-MC/PPP (multi-link, multi-class, point-to-point protocol)
* ATM TC/IMA (ATM transmission convergence and inverse multiplexing
for ATM) * AAL1 (ATM Adaptation Layer 1) and * T1/E1 Line Framing.
All primary competitors require at least three separate chips to
perform all five functions at the channel densities that LLP
supports. Agere's high level of integration lowers system line card
costs for manufacturers by approximately 40 percent and power
consumption by 50 percent, down to as low as 2.8 watts. The ATM and
IP integration simplifies system design and engineering, as well as
allows customers to economically and easily migrate from
traditional ATM networks to newer IP networks with minimal or no
equipment hardware changes. Processing ATM cells and IP packets at
speeds ranging from 8 Mbits/s to 155 Mbits/s, the chip broadens
Agere's multi-service and wireless chip solutions by targeting
applications such as wireless 3G Node B/BTS base stations, wireless
radio network controllers (RNCs), base station controllers (BSCs),
media gateways, multi-service access nodes and access/edge routers.
The level of integration of the device, coupled with the standard
software interface for all applications, lowers product development
costs for manufacturers. "Announcement Builds on Agere's
Well-Established Leadership in Traffic Management" "It seems that
Agere is turning the momentum it gained from capturing more network
processor market share from 2003 to 2004 into a deeper commitment
with the introduction of two new major products that are members of
the TrueAdvantage suite of converged access solutions," said Eric
Mantion, senior analyst with In-Stat. "This announcement today
builds on the company's already well established leadership
position in traffic management chips, which are crucial engines for
driving faster and smarter access networks. It shows the company is
investing in the access and network processor markets for the long
term and taking bold steps to remain a devoted player." Agere's
APP300 and LLP families include multiple product versions and are
scheduled to sample in this year's second quarter. APP300 devices
range in price from $35 to $200 in volume quantities. The LLP-W,
designed for the wireless market, ranges in price from $50 to $150
in volume quantities; the LLP devices, targeted at higher capacity,
multi-service switching/routing segment, are priced from $150 to
$400. For more information on these devices and to experience
TrueAdvantage solutions by Agere, please visit
http://www.agere.com/TrueAdvantage. Customers in the U.S. may call
the Agere Systems Customer Response Center at 1-800-372-2447.
Customers in Canada may call 1-800-553-2448. Customers outside
those countries may call 1-610-712-4323. Fax inquiries may be
directed to 1-610-712-4106, or e-mail queries to . Written
inquiries should be sent to Agere Systems, Room 10A-301C, 1110
American Parkway NE, Lehigh Valley Central Campus, Allentown, PA
18109, USA. Agere Systems is a global leader in semiconductors for
storage, wireless data, and public and enterprise networks. The
company's chips and software power a broad range of computing and
communications applications, from cell phones, PCs, PDAs, hard disk
drives and gaming devices to the world's most sophisticated
wireless and wireline networks. Agere's customers include top
manufacturers of consumer electronics, communications and computing
equipment. Agere's products connect people to information and
entertainment at home, at work and on the road-enabling the
connected lifestyle. Agere and PayloadPlus are registered
trademarks and Agere Systems, the Agere Systems logo and
TrueAdvantage are trademarks of Agere Systems Inc. This release
contains forward-looking statements based on information currently
available to Agere. Agere's actual results could differ materially
from the results stated or implied by those forward-looking
statements due to a number of risk and uncertainties. These risks
and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our reliance on
major customers and suppliers, our ability to keep pace with
technological change, our dependence on new product development,
price and product competition, availability of manufacturing
capacity, customer demand for our products and services, and
general industry and market conditions. For a further discussion of
these and other risks and uncertainties, see our annual report on
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004, and our
quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31,
2004. Agere disclaims any intention or obligation to update or
revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.
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