Screw Dan Niles.....Go TXN"""""".........
TI bundles VoIP solutions, plans chip for 2,016
channels in 2002
Semiconductor Business News
(01/29/01 07:22 a.m. PST)
DALLAS -- Texas Instruments Inc.
today announced bundled software
and digital signal processor solutions
for a range of voice over Internet
protocol (VoIP) systems, and the
Dallas company said it aims to be the
first DSP supplier to integrate 672
channels on a chip for T3 capabilities
in the second half of 2001.
TI's new VoIP technology roadmap
also shows OC-3--or 2,016
channels--on a chip being achieved
in the third quarter of 2002.
Dallas-based TI and its Telogy
Networks unit in Germantown, Md.,
rolled out complete integrated
solutions for VoIP systems in
customer premise equipment,
small-to-medium enterprise systems, and high-density
carrier-class gear. Managers with Telogy--which was
acquired TI in 1999 (see story), said today's announcement
was the biggest VoIP rollout this year planned by TI.
Currently, Telogy's software is installed in 200 designs in the
growing VoIP market segment, said Nancy Goguen, vice
president of marketing for Telogy Networks. TI also claims
that over 80% of VoIP products in use or in development
today are based on its technology.
While the number of competitors is growing in the VoIP field,
TI believes its has a number of key advantages over other
suppliers, including its strong position in the digital signal
processor markets. But the chip company also is promoting
itself as the only supplier offering complete integrated
software, full technical support, and indemnification with its
portfolio of patents and technology rights to VoIP.
"We think we have the strongest position here in the
industry," stated Dennis Gatens, product management
director at Telogy in Germantown. Telogy's software
packages cover carrier class PCM, echo cancellation, packet
playout software, tone processing, voice activity
detection/comfort noise generation, fax relay, and other
functions.
TI's current customer premise equipment (CPE) solution
integrates a 100-MHz DSP and 47-MHz RISC processor (an
ARM7 core) with memory and peripheral functions for up to
four voice/fax channels. "This is an optimized solution for
CPE, SOHO (small office, home office), and service-specific
Internet solutions in the future," Gatens said.
A small-to-medium enterprise (SME) solution is being offered
with a dual DSP engine and a 125-MHz RISC processor (an
R-4000 MIPS-based core) along with memory and other
functions. The SME solution will be available in the third
quarter of 2001, priced at $2.44 per channel, including
Telogy software, in quantities of 100,000.
For carrier-class VoIP systems, TI is now offering 48-channel
solutions packed in a 12-by-12-mm package consuming less
than 11-mW per channel. With software, the high-density
VoIP solutions start at $2.89 per channel in quantities of
100,000. Samples of a T3 (for 672 channels) will be available
in the second half of 2001, according to TI. The OC-3
(2,016 channels) single-chip solution is set to be introduced
in 2002. |
