Virata Becomes MetaSwitch Interoperability Partner; Virata's Voice Chipsets Achieve Successful Interoperability With OpenVoB Member's Broadband Voice Platform.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2001 Virata(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTA VRTA Vibration Reduction Test Aircraft (CH-47D Helicopter) ) and MetaSwitch today announced that Virata's Azurite azurite (ăzh`ərīt), blue mineral, the basic carbonate of copper, occurring in monoclinic crystals or masses that range from transparent to translucent and opaque. (TM) voice chipsets have successfully passed interoperability testing with MetaSwitch's VP3000 Integrated Broadband Voice Platform for the delivery of toll-quality Voice-over-DSL (VoDSL) telephone calls and subscriber services such as Caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. . Virata and MetaSwitch are helping to accelerate the development of Voice over Broadband by ensuring that their products support and promote open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced that enable any integrated access device An IAD is a customer premises device that provides access to wide area networks and the Internet. Specifically, it aggregates multiple channels of information including voice and data across a single shared access link to a carrier or service provider PoP (Point of Presence). (IAD (Integrated Access Device) A device that multiplexes a variety of communications technologies in the customer's premises onto a single telephone line for transmission to the carrier. It also demultiplexes the incoming streams into their respective channels. ) to operate with any voice gateway. Virata has also joined the growing MetaSwitch Interoperability Partner community. "As a MetaSwitch Interoperability Partner, we are well-positioned to deliver proven, pre-integrated components that meet accepted industry standards, and help service providers and equipment makers overcome the various compatibility issues that exist when integrating voice capabilities into a network environment featuring 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 or wireless access points," said Duncan Greatwood, vice president of marketing at Virata. "By using our open, non-proprietary solution that interoperates with equipment from a broad range of leading vendors, we are able to help our customers reduce the time it takes for them to get their products to market, and reduce their design and manufacturing costs -- factors which will be instrumental in driving the growth of the broadband voice market." Following a series of tests hosted at MetaSwitch's interoperability lab facilities, an IAD based on Virata's Azurite chipsets achieved interoperability with MetaSwitch's award-winning VP3000 Integrated Broadband Voice Platform. By combining broadband voice and Class 5 switching functions in a high density, carrier class system, the VP3000 provides a cost-effective VoDSL solution, which is designed to eliminate the requirement for an expensive Class 5 switch. Support for the ATM Forum's Broadband Loop Emulation Service (BLES BLES Broadband Loop Emulation Service (DSLF) BLES Buffer Layer Engineering in Semiconductors (ESPRIT Project 6854) ) also ensures interoperability with a wide variety of DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexor) A central office (CO) device for ADSL service that intermixes voice traffic and DSL traffic onto a customer's DSL line. It also separates incoming phone and data signals and directs them onto the appropriate carrier's network. See DSL. and IAD devices. In addition, the VP3000's future-proof softswitch architecture offers a clear upgrade path to Voice over IP and MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS. (2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. (VoIP/MPLS) and other broadband voice services, including wireless and cable. "The growing acceptance of well-defined international standards, particularly the ATM Forum Broadband Loop Emulation Service (BLES), makes this kind of interoperability result much more straightforward than it used to be with first-generation, proprietary VoDSL solutions," said John Lazar, MetaSwitch's vice president of sales and marketing. "Virata clearly recognizes how important interoperability is for their customers -- and ultimately service providers -- and are therefore partnering with MetaSwitch to help turn Voice over Broadband into a plug-and-play technology, and shift the emphasis to the real product differentiators." About Virata's Azurite Chipsets Azurite is Virata's family of pre-integrated voice-over-DSL chipsets, which combine Helium(TM) or Beryllium beryllium (bərĭl`ēəm) [from beryl ], metallic chemical element; symbol Be; at. no. 4; at. wt. 9.01218; m.p. about 1,278°C;; b.p. 2,970°C; (estimated); sp. gr. 1.85 at 20°C;; valence +2. (TM) communication processors, networking software, Magnesium(TM) voice DSPs, voice algorithms, and voice protocols into a pre-integrated CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment solution. Azurite offers system developers full flexibility and control of integrated service resources to aid in the development of next-generation, voice-enabled DSL products. About MetaSwitch MetaSwitch was formed by Data Connection (DCL (1) (Digital Command Language) Digital's standard command language for the VMS operating system on its VAX series. (2) (Data Compression L ) to build best-of-breed solutions for Voice-over-DSL and other broadband voice requirements, based on the unrivaled software and hardware experience, expertise and technology that Data Connection has built up over nearly twenty profitable years supplying the most demanding Service Provider and equipment vendor customers. MetaSwitch is a founding member of the OpenVoB group. MetaSwitch builds on the powerful foundation created by Data Connection, pulling together its massive ongoing investment in the technology required to build converged network solutions (such as ATM, SS7, MPLS, MGCP/H.248, SIP), and new revenue-generating services (directory, unified messaging, data/audio/video conferencing). The MetaSwitch support and customer management infrastructure taps right into the deep reservoir of professionalism and experience Data Connection has developed by helping its large strategic customers deliver successful products and services. MetaSwitch and Data Connection have offices in Alameda (California), Reston (Virginia), and Enfield (North London), Chester and Edinburgh in the U.K. For information, email contact@metaswitch.com or visit www.metaswitch.com. About Virata Virata provides communications software and semiconductors to manufacturers of DSL, wireless, satellite, and other broadband networking equipment. Virata's suite of processor-independent software products provide developers with complete, field-proven implementations of networking functions, including MPLS and web servers, removing the need to write and validate new software code. Virata also pre-integrates its extensive suite of communications software with its powerful and cost-effective communications processors to create Integrated Software on Silicon(TM) (ISOS ISOS IP (Internet Protocol) Service Operating System ISOS In Search of Sunrise (Dj Tiesto song) ISOS Isosceles ISOS In Search Of Space ISOS Inspection Service Operation Support (TM)) products. These ISOS solutions assist customers in developing a diverse range of broadband wireless and wireline equipment including DSL modems, gateways, routers, and integrated access devices targeted at the voice and high-speed data network access and customer premises markets. Virata's products also help equipment manufacturers to simplify product development, reduce the time it takes for products to reach the market and focus resources on product differentiation Product Differentiation A source of competitive advantage that depends on producing some item that is regarded to have unique and valuable characteristics. and improvement. Virata is a principal member of the ATM Forum, Bluetooth SIG organization, the DSL Forum, HomePNA, ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. , MPLS Forum, WC3 consortium, OpenDSL consortium and UPnP Forum. A publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. on the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. , Virata was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information, please visit www.virata.com. Except for historical information contained herein, this press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially. Due to increasing uncertainties in the company's market, the company's degree of visibility on future revenues and earnings and associated confidence level in forecast information is less than in past quarters. Factors that might cause a difference include, but are not limited to, those relating to general business and economic conditions, evolving industry standards, the pace of development and market acceptance of our products, those of our customers and the DSL market generally, the rate of DSL deployments, commercialization and technological delays or difficulties, changes in customer order patterns and the product volume of such orders, the financial condition of our customers, risks of customer loss, the impact of competitive products and technologies, competitive pricing pressures, manufacturing availability and risks, dependence on third party suppliers, the uncertainties associated with international operations, the possibility of our products infringing patents and other intellectual property of third parties, risks due to limited protection of our intellectual property, product defects, costs of product development, our ability to attract and retain employees, the company's ability to extract value from acquisitions, manufacturing and government regulation and other risk factors listed from time to time in the reports and other documents Virata files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, the report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended March 31, 2001. Virata assumes no obligation to revise or update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. Note to Editors: Virata is a registered trademark, and Azurite, Beryllium, Helium, Magnesium, ISOS and Integrated Software on Silicon are trademarks of Virata. Data Connection and MetaSwitch are trademarks of Data Connection Limited and Data Connection Corporation. All other trade, product, or service names referenced in this release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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