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Win brings year's second award to Mustang(TM) 300 CPE optical chipset FREMONT, Calif., June 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centillium Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTLM) today won the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) InfoVision Award for the Mustang 300 CPE system-on-chip (SoC) solution in the category of Enabling Silicon and Component-Level Technologies. The product's second award of the year follows the Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award it received in April. The InfoVision Awards program recognizes technologies, applications, products, advances, and services deployed in the Asia-Pacific region judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the telecommunications industry and consumers globally. IEC Executive Vice President Roger Plummer commented, "The IEC's InfoVision Awards program gives tribute to the paramount broadband innovations in deployment today in the Asia-Pacific region. We are pleased to recognize Centillium Communications as an InfoVision winner for its Mustang 300 CPE, which we appreciate as a significant contribution to the industry." "Mustang 300 CPE represents a major step forward in optical network units, and we're pleased to earn this validation from the IEC and our second award this year," said Didier Boivin, vice president of marketing, Centillium. "These industry honors reflect the market's recognition of the capabilities, performance and value that Mustang 300 delivers for fiber-to-the-premises services." The 2007 awards program received more than 160 entrants, naming 42 finalists in nine categories. Winners were announced today at the Broadband World Forum Asia event in Beijing. Finalists were judged according the following criteria: -- Value of service or technology in solving recognized technology problems, meeting network requirements, optimizing service and performance, and/or enhancing customer service -- Overall quality of innovation and contribution to technology advancement -- Originality and vision -- Potential contribution toward positive industry growth and service -- Market success/acceptance (where applicable) -- Contribution to end-user quality of experience and service efficiency 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 for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) 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 optical transceiver can be implemented with the Zeus 2(TM) transceiver chip and an optical laser diode, PIN diode, and TIA. When integrated with the award-winning Arion(TM) VDSL2 and Atlanta(TM) VoIP technologies, Mustang 300 provides systems vendors and service providers with comprehensive fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) solutions, enabling reduced costs and operational complexities and rapid time to value. The combination of Mustang and Atlanta delivers an Optical Services Gateway (OSG) platform for delivery of Triple Play services with excellent quality of user experience. 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 designs 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/. NOTE: Centillium Communications, Zeus, Mustang 300, Arion, 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. DATASOURCE: Centillium Communications, Inc. CONTACT: Vivian Chen of Centillium Communications, Inc., +1-510-771-3628, ; or James McIntyre of McClenahan Bruer Communications, +1-503-546-1000, , for Centillium Communications, Inc. Web site: http://www.centillium.com/

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