Cradle Technologies DSP Powers KT Corporation's IP Surveillance Service for Internet and Mobile Phones; Multiprocessor DSP Technology Enables Low-Cost IP Camera Infrastructure.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Cradle Technologies announced today that one of the critical technologies that power the upcoming KT Corporation's IP Surveillance Service is the Cradle Multiprocessor DSP. The Cradle CT3400 MDSP chip is the core processor for the IP network surveillance camera clients deployed at remote sites. These cameras generate real-time video and audio streams that are then transported to the KT network infrastructure over broadband DSL.

"Surveillance cameras leverage our broadband Internet network providing new sources of revenue," said Mr. Ko, Director, IP Communication Service Division, KT. "The integration, performance, and cost-effectiveness of Cradle's MDSP technology will enable us to more broadly deploy IP surveillance cameras, significantly expanding our customers' security zone. Processing, storing and distributing this surveillance content 24/7 provides KT with a new broadband service that increases the utilization of our installed broadband infrastructure assets and increases customer value."

Service system consists of IP cameras that compress real-time D1 video frames with MPEG-4, encapsulate the stream in IP packets and transmit it over the broadband Internet DSL network to an infrastructure of Internet servers. Customers can deploy many surveillance cameras, each with a unique IP address. They can then view the cameras in real-time through a secure Internet Web browser on any Internet client, including mobile phones. Customers achieve broader and more accessible security coverage at a lower cost for all types of government, commercial, enterprise and residential installations. Traditional standalone surveillance digital video recorders (DVRs) are eliminated and replaced by an Internet Data Server or other hard disk, providing a more flexible and cost-effective surveillance system.

"The IP network camera market is growing faster than the IP TV market," said Charles Fox, Senior vice-president of marketing at Cradle Technologies. "Our flexible, highly integrated and high-performance multiprocessor DSP technology is ideal for IP camera applications while software programmability enables user customization and speeds time-to-market."

The CT3400 MDSP is a complete single-chip IP camera solution. The chip interfaces directly to the camera image sensor on the front-end and delivers Ethernet packets to the analog PHY on the back-end, providing a complete single-chip IP camera solution. DRAM memory, FLASH memory and analog PHYs are the only other chips required. This dramatically accelerates an OEM's ability to bring a single channel IP streamer solution to market.

About the Cradle CT3400 Multiprocessor DSP

Cradle's CT3400 is a C-programmable multiprocessor DSP (MDSP) comprising eight 32-bit DSP cores, six 32-bit general purpose processor cores, and a flexible 128-pin programmable I/O subsystem. The platform provides a flexible and integrated media processor that can support the newest H.264 and MPEG4 codecs as well as MJPEG and any other codec. The CT3400's programmable I/O and general purpose processor subsystem provides single-chip integration and support for many I/O interfaces and protocols including Ethernet, PCI, Hard Disk, Wireless, Video/Audio Ports, Image Sensor Interfaces, and other general purpose I/O. The loosely coupled MDSP gives the customer reduced system cost, faster time-to-market, and higher product differentiation. Primary applications for the CT3400 include surveillance cameras, surveillance streamers and surveillance digital video recorders.

About KT Corporation

KT Corporation (which changed its name from Korea Telecom, (NYSE:KTC)), established in 1981, is a $US 16 billion equivalent revenue company with more than 40,000 employees. It provides various telecommunications services including local, long-distance and international calling; satellite communication; data transmission; and wireless telephone services in Korea. As its motto of the Value Networking Company, KT also offers network portals and world-leading high-speed broadband Internet services using asymmetric digital subscriber lines (ADSL).

About Cradle Technologies

Cradle is a fabless semiconductor company providing the best price/performance, most flexible and most scalable DSP solutions for real-time multimedia applications. Cradle's multiprocessor DSP architecture innovation delivers high-performance scalable DSP processing with the flexibility, time-to-market and product differentiation benefits of processor-based programmable platforms. Coupled with a Rapid Development System and suite of application software functions, Cradle provides OEMs with all the building blocks necessary to enable flexible yet high-performance DSP designs. Cradle's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. For more information about the company call 408-636-5000 or visit www.cradle.com.