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Palladia 402 Chipset Enables Digital Home as SFR Commits to BeWAN Box FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centillium Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTLM) announced that systems integrator BeWAN Systems of France has selected Centillium's Palladia(TM) 402 system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution to furnish broadband voice, data and video services for its newest integrated access device (IAD). SFR, a leader in mobile telephony, announced last month its entrance into the French broadband market and will deploy home gateways from BeWAN for its new triple-play residential service offering. In a press conference on March 27, 2007, SFR introduced its new service offering, branded "Happy Zone," and projected more than two million customers within one year for the service. BeWAN will also market the Centillium-powered IAD technology to other service providers. "Centillium offered us a complete solution with high performance, advanced features, conservative bill-of-materials costs and tightly integrated engineering support," said Eric Teissandier, chief executive officer, BeWAN. "The results couldn't be better; with Centillium, we were able to bring a uniquely capable, highly marketable product from inception to market in well under a year's time." Palladia 402 manages ADSL2/2+, Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) and switching and routing functions that enable Internet Protocol television (IPTV) services in the SFR IAD. The Palladia solution enables triple play services by combining a digital ADSL VoIP gateway processor with analog front-end circuitry, on-board flash and synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), multi-channel Foreign eXchange Station (FXS) and Foreign eXchange Office (FXO) voice codecs and a direct PCI interface to wireless networks. Palladia 402 recently confirmed its standing among the highest- performing ADSL processors, earning certification for France Telecom's rigorous ADSL benchmarks, including the WT-100 specification. "We are pleased to collaborate with BeWAN in enabling the technology backbone of SFR's demonstrated leadership in triple play," said Didier Boivin, vice president of marketing, Centillium. "We strive continuously to develop solutions that compromise nothing in terms of manufacturability, performance and quality of experience. Our success with BeWAN and SFR reflects our commitment to addressing the needs of OEMs and service providers as well as the consumers who drive the 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, Palladia and the Centillium Logo are trademarks of Centillium Communications, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. All rights reserved. All other products or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Centillium Communications, Inc. CONTACT: Vivian Chen of Centillium Communications, +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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