Centillium Sets ADSL Performance Milestone, Delivers Data Rates Exceeding 20Mbps.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2003 Advanced Chipset Enables Higher Performance, Lower Power Consumption, Reduced Design Complexity Centillium Communications, Inc., innovator of broadband technology (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. ), introduces the Palladia pal·la·di·a n. A plural of palladium2. (TM) 210 (P210) chipset for ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line customer premises equipment See CPE. (CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment ). The chipset brings increased performance, cost-effectiveness, and reduced power consumption to the company's Palladia product line. The new chipset builds upon Centillium's successful eXtremeDSL(TM) technology to double the frequency spectrum according to the new ADSL+ standard. The P210 offers data rates exceeding 20Mbps, making it the fastest ADSL CPE chipset available in the market today. This makes the P210 ideal for ADSL modems supporting next generation services that offer greatly increased data rates to subscribers. The ability to offer such services allows service providers to maintain their edge in a competitive broadband market, and to command a premium that will help boost their bottom lines. The P210 is built using advanced 0.13-micron technology, and consumes 50 percent less power than Centillium's previous generation solution, the P200. This significantly simplifies the power supply section of the modem. Additionally, the P210 will pair up with Centillium's next generation Analog Front End -- line driver chip, which is designed to integrate increased levels of board functionality. These combined factors considerably lower the external component count and reduce the complexity of the modem design. With the use of advanced process technology, the P210 delivers a significant increase in processing power over its predecessor. This additional power helps to support advanced system level features such as Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network ) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) that are becoming essential in the competitive and feature-rich ADSL router market. The P210 contains a new MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. (R) 4Kc(TM) core with a Memory Management Unit (MMU (Memory Management Unit) The part of the computer that governs memory access. Either part of the CPU chip or housed on separate chips, the MMU controls memory partitions and virtual memory. See memory and virtual memory. MMU - Memory Management Unit ). This will allow the use of real time operating systems such as Linux. Linux is an open source operating system for which numerous royalty free application stacks are available, further reducing the cost to customer premise equipment (CPE) manufacturers. "Centillium Communications is the recognized technology leader in the ADSL space," said Todd DeBonis, Centillium Communications' Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. "This requires having a vision for what the market requirements will be further down the road and executing to it. With our eXtremeDSL technology, we were the first to deploy a solution supporting 12Mbps ADSL service, which is currently the fastest ADSL service deployed in the world. Once again, we are first to market with a solution that will allow service providers to make the next quantum leap in ADSL service speeds while, simultaneously, accommodating the desire of CPE manufacturers for a highly optimized system solution from the standpoints of power and cost." "Centillium's P210 comes at the right time in our product development cycle," said Tsutomu Otani, General Manager, Solutions Product Development Division, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Access Technica, Ltd. "Like its predecessor, the P210 uses a MIPS processor core, which allows us to make the most of our software developments while providing us with a vehicle to meet the demand from service providers for increased data rates. This is a critical goal that we must accomplish in order to maintain our leadership position in Japan, the most competitive DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary market in the world." "Centillium Communications has been our supplier of choice for ADSL chipsets since the start of our endeavors in the ADSL space," said Yoshikazu Nishiwaki, General Manager, Strategic Planning Group, Sumitomo Electric Networks, Inc. "Centillium's continued innovation and support have proven its leadership in this challenging field. Centillium has delivered products that have helped us to position ourselves ahead of the competition in the ADSL equipment market. Once again, Centillium has confirmed its leadership as an ADSL chipset supplier by delivering a best-in-class product that meets the very latest in our needs for performance, power consumption, and system cost. We look forward to Centillium continuing to be our supplier of choice for our next generation ADSL modem platforms." Like its predecessor, the P210 enables a complete router on a chip. With an integrated MIPS processor core, USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. and Ethernet interfaces to the LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. side and an ADSL interface for the WAN, the P210 contains all the key functional blocks to develop an advanced ADSL router system solution. About eXtremeDSL Technology Centillium's eXtremeDSL technology is a revolutionary feature set, which optimizes the use of the ADSL spectrum to make significant improvements in extending the reach of ADSL service and increasing the downstream bit rates. eXtremeDSL consists of two key features: eXtremeReach(TM) and eXtremeRate(TM). The eXtremeReach feature allows service providers to increase the ADSL coverage area. With this feature, the total addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be ADSL market will increase, resulting in greater revenue opportunities for equipment vendors and service providers. The eXtremeRate feature offers increased downstream rates that go beyond the traditional 8Mbps. This performance enables providers to offer bundled services based on different data rates. Availability The Palladia 210 is available for production orders now. About Centillium Communications Centillium Communications, Inc. is combining technical innovation and customer commitment to make broadband communications a market reality. Centillium consistently delivers value to its customers by providing broadband networking systems for applications across the full market spectrum. The company designs and markets communications chipset solutions for central office equipment, digital loop carrier In telephone communications, a technology that increases the number of channels in the local loop by converting analog signals to digital and multiplexing them back to the end office. (DLC (1) (Data Link Control) See data link and OSI. (2) (Data Link Control) The data link layer protocol (layer 2) that is used in IBM's SNA networking. See SNA, data link protocol and Microsoft DLC. ) line cards, and customer premise equipment for 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), Voice over Packet (VoP) and Premise Networking. Centillium Communications' headquarters are located at 47211 Lakeview Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538. Additional information is available at www.centillium.com. Note to Editors: Centillium, Centillium's logo, Palladia, eXtremeDSL, eXtremeReach and eXtremeRate are trademarks of Centillium Communications, Inc. in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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