Centillium Receives Communications Solutions Magazine's ''Product of the Year'' Award for 2004; Palladia 400 Family Honored for Outstanding Innovation That Speeds Time-to-Market and Lowers Costs of Broadband Access Equipment.FREMONT, Calif. -- Centillium Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTLM CTLM Imaging Computed tomography laser mammography A diagnostic technique using lasers to produce a 3-D cross-sectional image of the breast without x-rays. See Mammography. ) announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's Communications Solutions(TM) magazine online (www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named Centillium's Palladia pal·la·di·a n. A plural of palladium2. (TM) 400 family as a recipient of its 2004 "Product of the Year" award. Palladia 400 was chosen for this award because it provides an innovative multi-service platform for broadband access with the industry's first highly-integrated solution for Voice-over-IP (VoIP)-enabled ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line residential gateways, integrated access devices (IADs) and set-top boxes (STBs). On the voice side, Palladia 400 provides a powerful DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive technology that supports up to four channels of deep compression VoIP with extensive features. On the data side, Palladia 400 includes a completely integrated data pump for ADSL providing speeds of up to 50 Mbps downstream and 5.5 Mbps upstream. "The Palladia 400 family addresses the explosive growth in the VoIP over broadband markets around the globe," explained Jitesh Vadhia, senior vice president and general manager, Centillium. "This versatile gateway-on-a-chip solution supports the disparate requirements of different regions of the world and provides a rich feature-set for both VoIP and ADSL, all while lowering costs and enabling faster time-to-market for equipment vendors and service providers." "Each year Communications Solutions magazine bestows our 'Product of the Year' awards on companies that have shown excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. Centillium has demonstrated to the editors of Communications Solutions that its products and services have gone the extra mile to help improve both the customer experience and ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). for the companies that use them," said Rich Tehrani, president and group publisher of Communications Solutions. The "Product of the Year" award winners for 2004 were published in the April 2005 issue of Communications Solutions magazine online (www.tmcnet.com/comsol). About TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center (R) Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes two print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, and Internet Telephony; five digital publications, SIP Magazine, Speech-World, WiFi Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, WiMAX Magazine; and the online publications TMCnet.com, Planet PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC also produces The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com. About Centillium 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 See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL), Fiber-To-The-Premises (FTTP (Fiber To The Premises) The installation of optical fiber from the carrier directly into the home or office. Also called "fiber to the home" (FTTH). See PON and FTTC. See also FTP. ) 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 See CPE. 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 www.centillium.com. Centillium Communications, Palladia and Centillium's logo are all trademarks of Centillium Communications, Inc. |
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