Centillium Takes on Multi-Service Access Market, Strengthens POTS Replacement Portfolio with Entropia III-C
October 02 2007 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
New system-on-chip adapts flagship processor to best address
medium-density applications FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 2
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centillium Communications (NASDAQ:CTLM)
today released Entropia(TM) III-C, the newest member of its suite
of system-on-chip (SoC) Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
solutions. Aimed at fast-growing multi-service access network
(MSAN) applications such as POTS replacement, Entropia III-C scales
the market-proven features and performance advantages of the
company's flagship system into a smaller-sized, highly integrated
chipset with cost structures and channel densities that squarely
target the requirements of business communications and subscriber
loop infrastructures. "Our newest chipset marks a significant
expansion of our reach in the booming market for voice services
over the IP backbone," said Didier Boivin, vice president of
marketing, Centillium. "By extending technologies proven out in
demanding, high-volume central office environments, we've scaled an
innovative, best-in-class platform to bring superior performance,
power consumption and service quality to new network access
applications as well as legacy telco facilities." With a
single-chip design and low per-channel cost, the Entropia III-C
provides a powerful and cost-efficient platform for deployment
within MSAN and Digital Loop Carrier (DLC) environments.
Carrier-proven algorithms serve to maximize voice quality, while
the highly integrated design reduces power consumption compared to
other approaches. The chipset's high degree of integration
minimizes external component counts and PCB layers to reduce
overall system bill-of-materials (BOM) costs. Trimming BOM costs
even further are an integrated internal host processor and internal
security engine, as well as reference POTS drivers and on-chip
call-processing software -- carrier-class features that simplify
linecard design and serve to reduce cost-per-port. For OEMs who
wish to operate via an external host processor, the system
integrates a PCI bus. True Channel Density Further distancing
Entropia III-C from other solutions, the SoC reliably delivers 72
LBR channels of voice independent of the codecs in use. While other
solutions achieve up to 72 channels with bandwidth-friendly
compressed codecs, their capacity degrades to levels as low as 30
channels per card when bandwidth-intensive uncompressed codecs are
processed. In contrast, Entropia III-C offers available support for
all wireline and wireless codecs while assuring carriers of the
maximum 72-channel capacity regardless of the mix of codecs in
routing. As a result, Entropia III-C economizes on costs and
physical space requirements by supporting fewer linecards to manage
comparable voice traffic. "Our upcoming annual VoIP market report
will forecast steady growth in 'low-density' aggregation media
gateways, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 62 percent
through 2011," said Steve Rago, principal analyst, iSuppli. "This
is the market opportunity that versatile, low-density processors
like Centillium's latest Entropia offering seek to capitalize."
Availability The Entropia III-C SoC is available now and includes
software, documentation and reference designs for minimized
time-to-market. Entropia solutions power voice and media gateways,
wireless infrastructure gateways, Class 4 and 5 switches, DLC,
voice-enabled IP routers, and IP-PBX systems. Entropia software
fully supports IMS architecture, enabling on-demand delivery of
rich media services over wireless and wireline networks. For more
information, visit http://www.centillium.com/html/products.htm.
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, Entropia, 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 James McIntyre of McClenahan Bruer
Communications, +1-503-546-1000, , for Centillium Communications,
Inc. Web site: http://www.centillium.com/
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