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TMC Awards eXtremeVDSL2 System-on-a-Chip Solution With Prestigious Industry Accolade FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centillium Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTLM), a leading provider of broadband access solutions, announced today that its ARION(TM) eXtremeVDSL2(TM) system-on-a-chip family has been selected to receive Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R))'s INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazine 2006 Product of the Year Award. Centillium's eXtremeVDSL2 technology enables rapid deployment of Triple Play services over DSL with exceptional quality of experience (QoE) through high-density, high-speed and extended reach to a market hungry for new, premium Broadband 2.0 offerings such as multi-channel video, HDTV, video-on-demand and interactive gaming. "This award further validates eXtremeVDSL2 as a next-generation technology that delivers an advanced feature set of capabilities that gives equipment manufacturers and service providers a competitive edge," said Didier Boivin, vice president of marketing at Centillium. "Our VDSL2 chips exemplify our commitment to offering a one-stop-shop so that key broadband technologies like PON, VoIP and DSL can be integrated seamlessly to bring leading-edge, multi-play services to fruition." ARION received this award because it sets a new level of performance, reliability, interoperability and cost-efficiency for broadband equipment manufacturers and service providers to deliver unprecedented voice, video and data quality to consumers. The ARION end-to-end VDSL2 solution offers numerous innovative and market-differentiated features that include all VDSL2 profiles to support different network requirements and 100Mbps symmetric data rates. Also, ARION is the only solution on the market to offer backwards compatibility with ADSL/2/2+ and ADSL2++ technologies. In addition, the solution offers the lowest power dissipation per port and on-chip traffic aggregation, resulting in lower systems costs. The unique features that Centillium's ARION chipset provides enable a QoE unrivaled in the industry, offering a patent-pending technique to improve the robustness of the link operation. This, coupled with the multi-latency quality of service, offers seamless voice, video and data traffic delivery, resulting in an uninterrupted experience for multiple users in each household. "INTERNET TELEPHONY is proud to bestow Centillium with a 2006 Product of the Year Award. Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine recognizes companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements," said Rich Tehrani, TMC president and editor in chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. "Centillium has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the broadband marketplace. We're proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future." 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 system-on-chip solutions accelerate development time-to-market for "last mile" products with Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (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. Centillium is a global company with headquarters in Fremont, CA. Additional information is available at http://www.centillium.com/. About INTERNET TELEPHONY Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY is the only magazine that focuses on providing information in IP communications technologies. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine provides readers with the best information necessary to learn about and purchase the equipment, software, and services. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Miercom. The only BPA-audited publication that's 100% dedicated to providing the highest quality content for the IP communications market, INTERNET TELEPHONY has 55,000 dedicated readers. About TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,600 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com/. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) NOTE: Centillium Communications, Centillium's logo, ARION and eXtremeVDSL2 are all trademarks of Centillium Communications, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks, products or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Centillium Communications, Inc. CONTACT: Kristin Hehir of Centillium, +1-408-975-3098, or ; or Jan Pierret of TMC, +1-203-852-6800, ext. 228, or Web site: http://www.centillium.com/

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