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Fairly routine product announcement buildling on ComStruct indicating BWSI's commitment to communications. But the stock went up 3/4 to 4 3/8 after this announcement came out. Eight T1 lines in a single PCI slots sounds pretty neat.
CARROLLTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1999-- Blue Wave Systems (Nasdaq/NMS:BWSI - news), the world's leading Digital Signal Processing
(DSP) solutions supplier, announces the new CPCI/C6402, a CompactPCI based DSP resource board suitable for deployment in telecoms and communications processing
applications.
As a core member of Blue Wave's ComStruct line of building blocks for communications processing, this new high performance CompactPCI board offers a cost effective,
flexible and scalable single slot DSP platform. ComStruct's principal building blocks include: DSP and I/O hardware, FACT(tm) (Framework Architecture for
Communication Technologies) system management software, and application specific DSP algorithms.
Eight Texas Instruments TMS320C6202 processors on the CPCI/C6402 board double the density of Blue Wave System's C6201 board, the CPCI/C6400. Operating at
250 MHz, the C6202 performs to 2000 MIPS, 25 percent faster than the C6201. The C6202 devices are both faster and smaller, and, coupled with higher on-chip memory
than the C6201, give a considerable performance boost. It is possible to begin design now using Blue Wave's CPCI/C6400 quad board, or evaluate the C6202 using the
CPCI/C6202-EVM and then migrate to the CPCI/C6402 octal board.
''The architecture of the CPCI/C6402 means that existing software written for the C6400 platforms will port easily,'' said Brian Carr, product manager for Blue Wave
Systems. ''For customers already using FACT, their applications will scale seamlessly.'' The architecture is optimized for resilient multi-channel processing, such as
modem pools and transcoder banks that can be used in Packet Voice applications and cellular radio base stations. The board, which will be available towards the end of this
year, will also be capable of supporting the newly announced TMS320C6203, which will further enhance the processing capacity of the board.
ComStruct algorthim providers see the benefits of increased DSP density per slot:
''Our modem technology on the C6202 board means five T-1 spans (120 channels) of V.90 modems in a single slot,'' said Jacob Bridger, Marketing Manager for Surf
Communication Solutions Ltd. ''The upcoming C6203 board combined with Surf's software will support eight T-1 spans (192 channels) of V.90 modems in a single slot.''
''Our highly optimized speech codecs and telecom software modules will provide up to 144 full duplex G.723.1 and G.729A packet voice ports per slot with the C6202,''
said MVPDG president Christopher Burke. ''We fully expect to see this number reach a full T1 per device, or 192 channels per slot on the C6203 device.
Start designing now using Blue Wave's CPCI/C6400 quad board, or evaluate the C6202 using the CPCI/C6202-EVM and then migrate to the CPCI/C6402 octal board --
with prices starting from $8,500 in quantity. |
