Conexant Expands Industry-Leading DSL Portfolio with World's Most Feature-Rich ADSL2plus Central Office Solution.

New System-on-Chip to Support Next-Generation IPTV Deployments over ADSL2plus

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for broadband communications and the digital home, today introduced the world's most advanced ADSL2plus central office (CO) system-on-chip (SoC) solution for next-generation triple-play video, data and voice applications. The new CO solution builds upon the company's industry-leading, extensively deployed Octane and G24 DSL solutions, and is offered in 16- and 24-port configurations. The CX95516 and CX95524 support all recent amendments to the ADSL2plus standards, and are the first devices to support new features that will be required in next-generation ADSL technology standards. These enhancements enable operators to improve the delivery of advanced, triple-play services such as Internet protocol-based television (IPTV), video on demand (VOD), and high-definition television (HDTV) programming. In addition, the devices' high level of systems integration and superior performance allow manufacturers to lower overall system costs.

"Once again, we leveraged our extensive real-world field experience and comprehensive knowledge of standards-based DSL technology to deliver a 'world's first' solution that provides operators with significant rate and reach performance improvements," said Akram Atallah, senior vice president and general manager of Conexant's Broadband Access business. "As a result, operators can extend their triple-play service offering to a larger subscriber base, and maximize their revenue opportunity."

Major telecom operators worldwide are driving new standards-based requirements in order to deliver high-quality, reliable triple-play video, voice and data services.

Kevin Foster, Head of Standards and Addressing for British Telecom, comments, "It is important that innovation generates open and standardized capabilities that increase service velocity, improve customer experience, and enable radical cost reduction. Enhanced impulse noise protection for DSL enables advanced network management to provide a better customer experience and higher service stability, reduction in service disruptions for the service provider, and lower operations costs for the network provider."

Conexant's CX95516/CX95524 is the first SoC solution to meet new requirements that are being added to or changed in industry standards to improve performance. These include:

* Enhanced Impulse Noise Protection (INP): Additional memory has been integrated into the chip to support INP, which facilitates the delivery of better quality video.

* Dual-latency with dual-interleaving: Allows carriers to simultaneously deliver error-free video and data content with the appropriate level of error protection for each service, while maximizing channel capacity.

* Dynamic spectrum management (DSM) Levels 1 and 2: Improves rate/reach performance via optimum spectrum shaping and balancing. This enables telcos to significantly boost broadband access subscriber rates over their existing copper infrastructure, eliminating the need for a costly network upgrade.

* Mask-on-Demand (MoD): A DSM Level 1 innovation developed by Conexant that improves performance improvement in medium and long range loops. This adaptive version of reach-extended ADSL (READSL) boosts loop reach, and upstream and downstream rates by optimizing the shape of the transmit power spectral density design. This allows carriers to increase their geographic coverage area and expand their customer base.

* RemedyDSL([TM]): An extensive loop diagnostic capability that helps operators pre-qualify, diagnose and maintain loops for DSL operation.

Both the CX95516 and CX95524 can be used in conjunction with Conexant's Columbia family of digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) processors for next-generation CO digital loop carriers, optical network units, and multiple dwelling/tenant unit (MDU/MTU) applications. In addition, a universal digital signal processor (DSP) ensures design compatibility across all of Conexant's ADSL and VDSL product lines, further maximizing design flexibility and reducing system and design-in costs.

Conexant is the market leader in DSL semiconductor solutions worldwide, and has shipped more than 200 million DSL ports to date. The company's DSL solutions have been deployed worldwide by over 50 major service providers. CO and customer premises equipment SoC solutions include a full range of standards-based integrated circuits, software and reference designs for asymmetric and symmetric DSL applications including ADSL2plus, SHDSL and VDSL2. Fiber access solutions include the Xenon family of products for passive optical network applications.

Availability, Packaging and Pricing

Both chipsets are available in sample quantities now, with production scheduled for early 2007. The CX95516 chipset includes a 16-port DSP and two analog front-end (AFE) chips. The DSP is packaged in a 472-pin plastic ball grid array (PBGA) and the AFEs are packaged in a 144-pin low profile, fine pitch ball grid array (LFBGA). The CX95524 chipset includes a DSP in a 24-port configuration and three AFEs. The 24-port DSP is packaged in a 668-pin PBGA and the AFEs are packaged in 144-pin LFBGAs. The chipsets are priced at $120 and $180 each, respectively, in volume quantities. To accelerate time to market, complete reference designs and a modular evaluation and development platform are available.

About Conexant

Conexant's innovative semiconductor solutions are driving broadband communications and digital home networks worldwide. The company has leveraged its expertise and leadership position in modem technologies to enable more Internet connections than all of its competitors combined, and continues to develop highly integrated silicon solutions for broadband data and media processing networks.

Key products include client-side xDSL and cable modem solutions, home network processors, broadcast video encoders and decoders, digital set-top box components and systems solutions, and dial-up modems. Conexant's suite of networking components includes a leadership portfolio of IEEE 802.11-compliant WLAN chipsets, software and reference designs, as well as solutions for applications based on HomePlug([R]) and HomePNA([TM]). The company also offers a complete line of asymmetric and symmetric DSL central office solutions, which are used by service providers worldwide to deliver broadband data, voice, and video over copper telephone lines.

Conexant is a fabless semiconductor company with an annual revenue run-rate in excess of $1 billion. The company has approximately 3,200 employees worldwide, and is headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif. To learn more, please visit www.conexant.com.

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