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Company Press Release
SOURCE: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Texas Instruments Takes Desktop IP
Telephony Into Mainstream Use
TI Allies with Cisco Systems for One of Industry's Largest
IP Telephony Roll Out
DALLAS, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Representing one of industry's largest rollouts of enterprise IP (Internet
Protocol) telephony to date, Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN - news) today announced they will begin a
staged deployment of a 1,000-user IP telephony system from Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO - news) at a TI
location in Dallas. The new system will allow TI to combine data, voice and video onto a single data network,
both reducing costs and network complexity for the company. This marks a significant step toward bringing IP
telephony over multiservice networks into mainstream use.
Offering greater network flexibility, integration and control, multiservice networks can provide private branch
exchange (PBX) functionality and more using the local, campus, metropolitan and WAN infrastructure rather
than a separate PBX-based system. This drastically increases the value of telephony spending into overall
infrastructure spending, reduces capital, facilities and operational costs and opens the environment to new
innovation in telephony applications.
The emergence of IP telephony offers to change the way companies communicate, with applications such as
unified messaging, virtual call centers and personal telephony services. Internet service providers are also
looking to offer voice services over their networks at reduced cost and with added features. TI technologies,
such as digital signal processing (DSP) and analog expertise, are used extensively in Cisco multiservice
network solutions. TI is the leading player in the DSP industry, with nearly 50 percent market share, while
Cisco's resulting multiservice systems lead with 71 percent of the packet telephony ports being deployed
worldwide today.
''As a leading supplier of much of the underlying technology for multiservice networking, TI is an ideal partner
for Cisco to scale mainstream use of the resulting systems,'' said Cisco Enterprise Vice President of Marketing
Peter Alexander. ''TI shares Cisco's culture of innovation, growth and technology leadership and, also like
Cisco, is a leading user of Internet technologies for increased business efficiency, productivity and competitive
differentiation. We look forward to working with TI in paving the way for widespread IP telephony in all
telecommunications markets.''
''As IP increasingly becomes the standard on which the next generation of converged data and voice
communications are based, the markets for IP telephony and multiservice networks are about to see
tremendous growth,'' said Pallab Chatterjee, senior vice president and chief information officer for Texas
Instruments. ''By leading the way with use of these systems, we will not only enjoy the technology's many
benefits, but also gain critical experience that will in turn help us to further develop our own products. Cisco is
an undisputed leader in shaping the future of telecommunications, and we are pleased to partner with them in
making a significant commitment toward bringing IP telephony into the mainstream.''
Texas Instruments Incorporated is a global semiconductor company and the world's leading designer and
supplier of digital signal processing and analog technologies, the engines driving the digitization of electronics.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company's businesses also include materials and controls, educational and
productivity solutions, and digital imaging. The company has manufacturing or sales operations in more than 25
countries.
Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is
located on the World Wide Web at ti.com.
SOURCE: Texas Instruments Incorporated |
