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Mustang(TM) 300 CPE chipset honored for outstanding innovation FREMONT, Calif., May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centillium Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTLM), today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) Communications Solutions (http://www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named Centillium Communications' Mustang 300 system-on-chip (SoC) as a recipient of its 2006 Product of the Year Award. "We launched the Mustang 300 chipset in December to offer service providers a uniquely capable means of delivering premium Triple Play services through their Ethernet passive optical networks (EPON), with an emphasis on maximizing quality of service," said Didier Boivin, vice president of marketing, Centillium Communications. "We're proud to be recognized by Communications Solutions for our innovation and commitment to developing end-to-end solutions for the 'last mile.'" "Centillium Communications has been recognized with a 2006 Product of the Year Award for its excellence in technological advancement and application refinement," said Rich Tehrani, TMC president and group editor-in-chief of Communications Solutions. "Centillium Communications has proven that it is committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor its hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from it in the future." The seventh annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2006 have been selected as recipients of this year's Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement. The 2006 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications Solutions Web site (http://www.tmcnet.com/comsol/). About Mustang 300 The next-generation Mustang 300 SoC is a highly integrated mixed-signal protocol processor for gigabit EPON applications. With Mustang 300, an ONU can be implemented with as few additional components as an optical transceiver, Gigabit Ethernet PHY, flash, and power supply, resulting in a low BOM cost and a reduced development cost. The Mustang 300 performance paces the industry, supporting traffic management, classification and filtering for up to 256 multicast groups and up to eight different service types. When married with the award winning Atlanta(TM) VoIP enabled network processor product family, the resulting OSG (Optical Services gateway) platform enables the delivery of Triple Play services with excellent quality of service. The processing power of the OSG enables new options for television entertainment such as interactive viewing, integration with voice and data communications, personalization and other value-added services. Centillium's Mustang 300 and OSG offerings include a robust software package with API and reference design for significantly reduced development cost and accelerated time to market. 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 TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. 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, Communications Developer Conference, 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, Mustang 300, Atlanta, and the Centillium Logo are 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. All rights reserved. DATASOURCE: Centillium Communications, Inc. CONTACT: Vivian Chen of Centillium Communications, Inc., +1-510-771-3628, ; or Jan Pierret of TMC, +1-203-852-6800, ext. 228, , for Centillium Communications, Inc.; or James McIntyre of McClenahan Bruer Communications, +1-503-546-1000, , for Centillium Communications, Inc. Web site: http://www.centillium.com/ http://www.tmcnet.com/comsol

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