Virata Unveils Highly-integrated Voice Over IP Chipset Capable of Reducing Customer Design Cycles by 400+ Percent.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)--Nov. 26, 2001 Virata's Outstanding Level of Integration Leads to Lower Customer Development Costs, Speeds Time to Market and Simplifies Product Development Virata(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTA VRTA Vibration Reduction Test Aircraft (CH-47D Helicopter) ) today announced its new 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) VoIP solution, which combines a Helium(TM) or Nitrogen(TM) communications processor and software with a Magnesium(TM) DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive and voice software. By integrating these critical components into one complete VoIP platform, Virata expects to offer the industry's best BOM costs, simplify customer's development of VoIP products and reduce design cycles from a typical 12-18 months to an estimated 3-6 months. In addition, the Azurite VoIP solution delivers the best-sounding voice over IP capabilities through its unique integration of Quality of Service (QoS) algorithms and high-performance echo-cancellation techniques that provide optimum voice quality even in the most adverse network conditions. "Whether a customer is designing a DSL modem, home router or 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). , we believe the Azurite VoIP chipset is the most competitive solution available today," said Duncan Greatwood, vice president of marketing at Virata. "In fact, many of our customers have already begun designing VoIP products and have selected our Azurite VoIP solution because it meets their cost, performance and time-to-market needs." VoIP Enables Exciting New Applications The VoIP market promises to be one of the fastest growing segments of the broadband industry. VoIP technology converges today's separate voice and data access networks, eliminating duplicate networks, simplifying system design, and enabling exciting new services. With VoIP, voice and data share all available network capabilities, and, when implemented correctly, ensures the speed, clarity, and quality of voice calls. By converging the voice and data networks into one powerful broadband pipe, VoIP promises to bring exciting new revenue-generating services to service providers that offer merged voice, video and data. For example, a combined VoIP email/voice system will enable users to call into voicemail and email simultaneously; home users will be able to easily add extra phone lines for guests; calls to any or all of a user's phones can be routed to any phone they choose while at work or traveling; and corporations will be able to easily and cheaply add groups of phone lines or link voice lines of new sites. About Azurite VoIP Solution The Azurite VoIP solution was designed to meet the needs of all CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment markets: consumer, small office/home office See SOHO. , small/medium enterprise, and enterprise. The VoIP chipset is a complete and scalable design solution that incorporates Virata Integrated Software on Silicon (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 ) platforms (Nitrogen or Helium family member with all layer 2 and 3 software) and its Magnesium DSP and voice algorithms. The Helium family of communications processors feature low-cost, PHY-neutral communications processors that enable high-speed Internet access capability for single-and multiple-user end-point devices such as multi-service gateways and small office/home office routers. The Helium chip is fully integrated with a VoIP protocol software suite that handles IP signaling, QoS support, real-time encapsulation (1) In object technology, the creation of self-contained modules that contain both the data and the processing. See object-oriented programming. (2) The transmission of one network protocol within another. and reporting, ATM, frame, routing, bridging, and SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. management. The Nitrogen family features high-performance, low-cost communications processors designed for IP switch/router applications. The Helium and Nitrogen families support all interfaces required for the VoIP device market, such as 10/100 Ethernet, HomePNA, home powerline, and home wireless. The Azurite VoIP chipset also incorporates Virata's Magnesium family of DSPs, which bundle Texas Instruments' powerful C54x processor with Virata's unique vCore voice algorithms and control-side devices drivers. vCore, the Azurite VoIP DSP software, provides a complete VoIP DSP solution including voice coding, echo cancellation, DTMF (Dual-Tone MultiFrequency) The type of audio signals that are generated when you press the buttons on a touch-tone telephone. See also DMTF. DTMF - Dual Tone Multi Frequency signaling, and N-way conferencing. vCore software also provides an open DSP software development framework with a comprehensive set of DSP software algorithms to simply the delivery of highly-capable DSP voice systems. Delivering a flexible QoS design, the Azurite VoIP solution prioritizes voice over data when needed, handles fragmentation of large IP packets, and minimizes processing and transmission delays. The chipset also ensures controlled IP packet delivery through advanced Dynamic Jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle Buffer Design, and accommodates lost packets through patent-pending Lost Packet Compensation. These capabilities add-up to high-quality voice delivery using the Azurite VoIP solution. The Azurite VoIP chipset featuring a Helium family member, Magnesium 09 and four-line configuration is priced at $34 in OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and quantities; and the Azurite VoIP chipset featuring the Nitrogen family member, Magnesium 09 and four line configuration is priced at $31 in OEM quantities. Both configurations are scheduled to be in volume production in December 2001. About Virata Virata provides communications software and semiconductors to manufacturers of 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 , 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 (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. 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 the ISOS platform. ISOS assists customers in developing a diverse range of Virata-Enabled 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 ISOS platform also helps equipment manufacturers 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 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 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, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . 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, the risk that GlobeSpan's and Virata's businesses will not be integrated successfully, costs related to the proposed merger, failure of the GlobeSpan or Virata's stockholders to approve the proposed merger, 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 fiscal second quarter ended September 30, 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 Aluminum, Azurite, Helium, Magnesium, Nitrogen, ISOS, Integrated Software on Silicon, and Virata-Enabled are trademarks of Virata. 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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