US : Centillium Communications announced that NEC has selected Centillium's pioneering Entropia III VoIP media gateway solution to help power advanced Internet Protocol (IP) services for NGN and 3G wireless infrastructure deployments. NEC chose Centillium's Entropia VoIP solution because it provides carrier-quality voice and media functions, as well as powerful processing, efficient power usage, rich software features and flexibility that are critical to the deployment of state-of-the-art NGN and 3G networks for leading service providers in Japan.

"We look to Centillium to provide us with leading-edge technology and resources as we deliver NGN, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services that combine voice and data capabilities on both wireless and wireline networks," said Toshio Suzuki, assistant general manager, NEC Communication Systems. "Entropia III's superior processing power, low power consumption and technically advanced software features provide us with clear competitive advantages as we deploy both NGN and 3G wireless infrastructures for carriers in Japan and around the world."

Centillium's Entropia III product is an advanced system-on-chip solution targeted at the converged wireline and wireless networks. In addition to the wireline and wireless codec functionality, Entropia III also offers FMC and IMS capabilities that enable service providers such as NTT to deliver voice and data on the converged wireline and wireless networks. "As widespread VoIP deployments are expected to continue for the next few years, Centillium, with its feature-rich Entropia III solution, is expected to accelerate service provider deployments," says Govind Krishna Kumar, Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan.

"Centillium is excited to be a vital part of NEC's NGN and 3G wireless infrastructure deployment in Japan," said Faraj Aalaei, CEO and co-founder, Centillium Communications. "Our vision is to develop and deliver technology that will change communications in the consumer and enterprise sectors in ways never thought possible. Innovations in our Entropia VoIP media gateway, such as transcoding, interworking and seamless handoff implemented in a power-efficient, high-performance platform, are key to making this happen. We are dedicated to introducing the most innovative products in the market."

The Entropia solution provides an advantage over traditional, general-purpose DSPs by delivering more than two and a half times the wireline and wireless codec capacity at less than half the power-per-channel. Integrating six patented SigmaPlus DSPs as well as four RISC network processors, the Entropia processor, coupled with the 3G-NGN software suite, provides carrier-grade voice quality, critical to service providers rolling out NGN VoIP offerings. With a 1,008 full feature VoIP channel density, Centillium is able to offer an extremely powerful voice processor in a highly optimized, flexible and innovative architecture tuned specifically for voice convergence processing. The Entropia solution supports IMS Media Gateway Functions (MGF) for CDMA/3GPP2 or GSM/3GPP applications, along with all wireline requirements. Additionally, Entropia supports IMS Media Resource Function Processors (MRFP) delivering such features as tones, unlimited announcements, conferencing and gaming.

About Centillium Communications

Centillium Communications, Inc. is a leading innovator of high- performance, cost-effective semiconductor solutions that give consumers, enterprises and service providers the winning edge in broadband access. The company's complete, end-to-end SoC solutions accelerate development time-to-market for "last mile" products with Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and VoIP technologies. Centillium products include digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits and related software for DSL and FTTP central office and customer premises equipment and VoIP solutions for carrier- and enterprise-class gateways and consumer telephony.

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