Conexant Achieves CableLabs Certification in Major Industry Breakthrough Enabling Cable Modems to be Installed Directly Inside PCs.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2000 Five Customer Designs Receive CableLabs Certification, Including First Products With Peripheral Component Interconnect See PCI. (hardware) Peripheral Component Interconnect - (PCI) A standard for connecting peripherals to a personal computer, designed by Intel and released around Autumn 1993. PCI is supported by most major manufacturers including Apple Computer. (PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). ) Interface That Will Allow Consumers To Purchase PCs With Built-In, Always-On High-Speed Cable Modems Conexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT) Thursday announced a major industry breakthrough that will enable cable modems to be installed directly into computers by PC makers. The company's single-chip cable modem has received certification from Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (CableLabs(R)) in the first customer product designs to include a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) interface so that consumers will be able to purchase PCs with built-in always-on, high-speed cable modems. A total of five customer designs have received certification using Conexant's InfoSurge(TM) CN9414 single-chip cable modem and associated software and reference designs, including solutions from Zoom Telephonics and GVC GVC Grand View College (Des Moines, IA) GVC Gruppo Volontariato Civile GVC Global Value Chain GVC Gastrovascular Cavity GVC Global Visibility Capability GVC Goddard Voice Control Corp. with a PCI interface, and products from Zoom, PowerCom Technology Co. Ltd. and D-Link with an Ethernet interface. Conexant's single-chip cable modem is the industry's most highly integrated, lowest-cost solution and the only one that can be programmed via network downloads to support new feature sets and all worldwide standards. Conexant's InfoSurge solution provides Internet connections at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than today's fastest dial-up modems. The PCI solutions represent a major breakthrough for provisioning cable modem services. Until now, service providers have had to deliver and install external cable-modem boxes at the customer premises, adding to the cost and complexity of service deployment. "We're proud to receive certification for this industry breakthrough, which will enable cable modems to be installed directly in PCs," said Dan Marotta, vice president and general manager for Conexant's Digital Infotainment Division. "Conexant's innovative PCI solution will accelerate the market for cable modems by allowing consumers to buy PCs with built-in, always-on high-speed cable modems," Marotta added. "Conexant has a long history of bringing connectivity solutions to mainstream PCs, and now we're doing the same with broadband cable modem technology. "Zoom, GVC, Powercom and D-Link are leading innovators and we are pleased for these companies and proud to have worked with them on this achievement. This also is an important milestone for Conexant, as we prepare to enter volume production with a number of customers who have designed in our single-chip solution." Conexant's highly integrated InfoSurge(TM) solution is also the first of its kind to receive Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) A Microsoft facility that provides testing services for hardware and drivers for compliance with its operating systems. WHQL administers various logos that compliant vendors may reprint on their packages. ) certification based on PC 99 system design guidelines. This will ensure that systems and add-in cards based on Conexant's solution will be fully compatible with Windows operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and can display the "Designed for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. " logo on product packaging. The CN9414-based CableLabs-certified products with a PCI interface will enable PC OEMs to attach their cable-modem products directly to the PC's internal PCI bus PCI bus - Peripheral Component Interconnect . Also, because the CN9414 modem chip includes a powerful Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) processor to drive its unique programmable media access control (MAC) layer, the PCI solution has the processing horsepower to support a multitude of application software, independent of the PC's host processor. This, along with the use of Conexant's PCI interface technology, will enable PC manufacturers to bundle GVC's and Zoom's cable modems directly into their systems. Part of Conexant's InfoSurge family of digital broadband communications products, the CN9414 single-chip cable modem is the only device of its kind to include a programmable media access control (MAC) layer that can be software-upgraded to support new feature sets and industry standards via network downloads. The CN9414 solution also is the industry's first single-chip cable modem to include a microprocessor and other key functions that would otherwise be expensive add-on requirements for building a complete cable-modem product. This cuts cable-modem product costs by as much as 25 percent as compared with alternative solutions. Conexant's CN9414 cable modem is also supported by a complete reference design that is the first of its kind from a single supplier to include all necessary silicon and software for creating a complete subscriber modem that can support all popular worldwide cable-modem standards. The CableLabs Certified Cable Modems project, formerly known as Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) A cable modem standard from the CableLabs research consortium (www.cablelabs.com), which provides equipment certification for interoperability. ), defines interface requirements for cable modems involved in high-speed data distribution over cable television networks. The project also provides cable-modem equipment suppliers with a fast, market-oriented method for attaining cable industry acknowledgment of DOCSIS compliance, and has resulted in high-speed modems being certified for retail sale. The Zoom, GVC, PowerCom and D-Link cable modems have received DOCSIS 1.0 certification, and can be quickly and easily software- upgraded to new specifications and feature sets as they evolve. About Conexant's Digital Infotainment Division Conexant's Digital Infotainment Division is a leading provider of semiconductor systems for broadband and broadcast communications applications. Addressing the convergence of PCs with consumer entertainment products, the division's broad portfolio includes cable and wireless modems, IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. products, digital set-top boxes and digital broadcast and video solutions for personal computing Refers to users working on their own computers rather than a terminal to a mainframe. Sometimes, the term refers to using computers at home for work and/or entertainment in contrast to business use only. See personal computer. appliances. About Conexant Systems With a revenue run-rate of approximately $2 billion per year, Conexant is the world's largest independent company focused exclusively on providing semiconductor solutions for communications electronics. With more than 30 years of experience in developing communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry , the company draws upon its expertise in mixed-signal processing to deliver integrated systems and semiconductor products for a broad range of communications applications. These products facilitate communications worldwide through wireline voice and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. networks, cordless and cellular wireless telephony telephony without wires, usually employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A telephone transmitter causes fluctuations in these waves, it being the fluctuations only which affect the receiver. See also: Wireless systems, personal imaging devices and equipment, and emerging cable and wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 communications networks. The company aligns its business into five product platforms: Network Access, Wireless Communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , Digital Infotainment, Personal Imaging and Personal Computing. Conexant is a member of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 Indices. For more information, visit Conexant at www.conexant.com. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. 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