BRECIS Launches New VoIP Software Suite Tailored for World Markets.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2003

When Used with the BRECIS Multi-Service Processor It Accommodates

Challenges of Different Network Quality and Security Concerns

BRECIS(R) Communications Corporation, the leading provider of Multi-Service Processors (MSPs), today launched a new VoIP (voice over IP) software suite that is uniquely designed to meet the varying needs of world markets. By handling a range of communications protocols, network conditions, and security needs, this new suite -- in combination with the BRECIS MSP4000 chip -- enables the development of robust, cost-effective VoIP gateways for virtually any markets around the world.

BRECIS is also announcing today the world's first high performance, Multi-service Processor for secure wireless access points and routers.(See separate press release.)

"Voice over IP is increasingly important in many markets around the world," said George Alexy, BRECIS president and CEO. "It enables efficient use of the Internet and broadband networks in markets where telephone systems are already well-established; and, in new, emerging markets, VoIP will be a key means of communication by creating opportunities for entire nations to immediately establish a relatively sophisticated voice network. Our strategy is to provide a solution that can meet the needs of any market an OEM wants to target."

Alexy explained that the VoIP market is emerging in different forms globally. In North America, it is largely emerging in the enterprise where IP networking services are being extended to remote offices or through competitive service providers such as cable operators. In the Pacific Rim, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and other countries, VoIP is being used by service providers to offer telephony to residences and small businesses. Here, the motivation is to leverage broadband deployments and offer phone service to locations where copper plant is limited.

VoIP Software Suite Specifics

The new BRECIS VoIP software suite is unique because, in combination with the MSP4000, it supports a variety of networking and voice-processing scenarios. The suite comes with support for a wide range of VoIP configurations including: choice of CODEC: G.711, G.726, G.729a/b, G.723.1; the ability to flexible combine multiple CODECs; support for popular signaling stacks such as H.323, SIP, and MGCP; dynamic jitter buffer; support for packet cable requirements; and T.38 capability.

To optimize the quality of VoIP delivery, BRECIS has teamed with Global IP Sound to offer their packet loss concealment technology. Since network conditions vary considerably, it is common for 30 percent or more packet loss to occur on network traffic. A phone call becomes impossible under high packet loss when using standard technologies. In contrast, BRECIS and Global IP Sound enable toll-quality voice under such conditions.

The new VoIP software suite for the MSP4000 is can be licensed today by BRECIS and is available with the MSP4000 FastStart Kit.

The MSP4000 and the MSP Architecture

The MSP4000 includes a powerful MIPS processor, a DSP-based voice engine, a security engine, a TDM interface, and 3 Ethernet MACs all integrated on a single chip. Up to 8 channels of G.711 and 4 channels of G.729a/b are processed by the on-chip DSP. QoS (quality of service) software ensures voice payloads are prioritized over data. The MSP4000 also includes a powerful security engine for data and the capability to deliver line rate routing performance for combined voice and data.

The MSP4000 was designed based on the BRECIS MSP architecture, which was introduced in 2001. This architecture was the first to cost-effectively handle multiple services (security, voice, and data) in one system-on-silicon (SOC), at a performance and quality level not previously available for customer premise equipment. A processor built with the MSP architecture might simultaneously incorporate separate engines that enable functions such as communication with local or wide area networks, voice processing, security, management, or even MPEG2 video decoding. Each of these engines can be dynamically managed, prioritized, or even reprogrammed to suit both the immediate needs of the data being processed and the particular design goals of the equipment designer.

About BRECIS Communications

BRECIS is the inventor of a new class of single-chip processor called a "Multi-Service Processor" (MSP), that worldwide has become the de facto standard platform for the low-cost design and manufacture of high-performance, broadband security, routing, and multi-service appliances for the SOHO and SME markets. Original equipment manufacturers in Japan, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere have found BRECIS' groundbreaking multi-service, "system-on-a-chip" architecture; its broad and growing processor family; and its leading-edge security, routing, VPN, and VoIP software; to be vital for effective competition in their local, emerging, broadband CPE markets and on the global stage.

For end users, BRECIS Multi-Service Processors make applications such as high-performance Internet access, multi-line voice over packet-based networks, heightened security, virtual private networking, voice-enabled web content, and entertainment on demand, increasingly practical, available, and affordable.

BRECIS is a late-stage, venture-funded company with a strong customer portfolio, and investors that include Crosslink Capital, Focus Ventures, InterWest Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Sequoia Capital. The company, with over 70 employees, is located in San Jose, CA.

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