Legerity Joins the Home Gateway Initiative.AUSTIN, Texas -- Legerity, Inc., the "V" in VoIP![TM], announced today that it has joined the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI HGI Home Gateway Initiative HGI hydroGEOPHYSICS, Inc (Tucson, Arizona) HGI Harris Group Inc HGI Heliographic Inertial HGI Horn Group Inc (San Francisco, CA) HGI Honda Granturismo Italia ), an open forum created to boost the market of home communication services to the millions of broadband customers worldwide. As a continuing effort to help improve the residential voice infrastructure, Legerity will participate in the development of residential gateway standards. With over 26 years of circuit design experience within the telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. industry, Legerity looks to provide a valuable insight to equipment makers and service providers. Legerity's membership to the HGI complements its continuing activities with other industry forums and standards bodies Following are some of the standards bodies defined in this database. For Windows users of CDE, look up Lessons/Review/Associations. For Web users of CDE's online HTML version, review the Lessons list at the bottom of the definition. Organization Covers ANSI U.S. and will enable the company to make direct contributions to important market issues. "The Home Gateway Initiative is a premier forum for addressing the technology and market issues facing the deployment of residential gateway equipment and services," said Rick Bye, senior segment marketing manager and Legerity representative to HGI. "With a membership base consisting of more than 65 companies, many of those HGI members are direct or indirect customers and partners of Legerity, from different areas of the industry and multiple locations across the globe, this forum is in a unique position to affect communication standards and quality improvement issues." "Legerity's membership in the Home Gateway Initiative will bring an important perspective to the programs being discussed," said Paolo Pastorino, Chief Technology Officer at HGI. "As a leading voice line interface provider for most residential gateway equipment, Legerity can contribute with a valuable, ubiquitous Found in large quantities everywhere. This English word means "all over the place." point of view." Current Legerity solutions include voice line interface circuits for customer premise equipment, such as cable and DSL modems ADSL modem or DSL modem is a device used to connect a single computer or router to a DSL phone line, in order to use an ADSL service. The acronym NTBBA (network termination broad band adapter, network termination broad band access) is also common in various countries. , and include metallic loop (or line) testing software, which can enable service providers to easily diagnose diagnose /di·ag·nose/ (di´ag-nos) to identify or recognize a disease. di·ag·nose v. 1. To distinguish or identify a disease by diagnosis. 2. and resolve problems, resulting in lower customer support costs and reduced churn churn: see butter. from unhappy customers. About Legerity, Inc. Legerity is the world's most trusted name in voice integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. (ICs) for high-voltage, analog/mixed signal semiconductor and software technologies. Legerity has years of demonstrated expertise in multiple voice technologies, world-class factory and field engineering support with a "high touch" customer philosophy, and consistent, reliable, high volume supply of premium quality IC components. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Legerity supports the needs of a global customer base through proprietary semiconductor technologies, superior manufacturing processes, and more than 650 U.S. and international patents. Visit Legerity on the Web at www.legerity.com. About HGI The HGI was founded and launched by nine telecom operators in 2004, and now has members from five continents, representing the entire spectrum of actors in the broadband home arena. The main tasks of the HGI are to establish technical and interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. specifications and provide input to standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting bodies. For more information on HGI, please visit www.homegateway.org. Trademarks Legerity, the Legerity logo and combinations thereof are registered trademarks, and VeriVoice and "the 'V' in VoIP!" are trademarks of Legerity, Inc. 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