PMC-Sierra’s Multi-Service Processor Family Selected by Advantage Century Telecommunication Corporation for Its VoIP Customer Premises Equipment Portfolio
August 17th, 2006 - Posted in Other, VoIPPMC-Sierra announced that Advantage Century Telecommunication has selected the MSP4120 and MSP4200 Multi-Service Processor® devices for its Voice over Internet Protocol Customer Premises Equipment solutions.
ACT’s VoIP solutions provide the full range of features that Service Providers demand for value-added and cost-effective IP telephony services. ACT’s VoIP family includes Analog Telephone Adapters (ATA), VoIP Routers and Wi-Fi VoIP Ethernet Gateways. PMC-Sierra’s MSP4120 and MSP4200 are at the heart of these ACT solutions, providing both voice and routing functions.
The MSP4120 and MSP4200 VoIP router-on-a-chip products have a highly integrated architecture that combines a DSP for processing up to four voice channels together with a MIPS32 4Kec core for high-performance routing and control functions. The MSP4200 offers the additional benefit of a PCI interface to enable the inclusion of 802.11 Wi-Fi subsystems to create Wi-Fi access points.
“PMC-Sierra’s MSP4120 and MSP4200 router-on-a-chip solutions excel at providing the enhanced performance and cost points necessary for us to meet our customers’ carrier-class VoIP solutions needs,” said Kevin Lai, product manager at ACT. “PMC-Sierra demonstrated a solid understanding of our requirements by providing a comprehensive set of voice processing functions, codecs, and turn-key Linux-based router software. This, coupled together with exceptional support for the localized voice features required by carriers and ISPs, enabled us to get to market faster with a high-quality product.”
“We are pleased to be working with ACT on their flagship VoIP product family,” said Dino Bekis, vice president of marketing and applications for PMC-Sierra’s Communication Products Division. “PMC-Sierra’s continued investments in Residential Gateway and digital home technologies allow us to bring solutions to our customers that meet current market requirements, while enabling additional services that expand their market opportunities.”
The MSP4120 and MSP4200 are the most integrated, high-performance products in the MSP family of VoIP products. The family includes the MSP2015 voice-on-MIPS processor for single-channel ATAs and IP Phones as well as the MSP2020, which integrates a hardware security accelerator for enhanced Secure IP Phone and ATA applications. All devices in the MSP family support PMC-Sierra’s Voice Processing Module firmware that provides the necessary VoIP functions for high-quality VoIP services, including vocoders (G.711, G.726, G.729, G.723 and iLBC), DTMF detection/generation/relay functions, G.168 Line Echo Cancellation and T.38 Fax Relay.
About PMC-Sierra’s MSP Family
PMC-Sierra’s MSP devices are designed to meet the performance, QoS and security needs of VoIP-enabled communications equipment used within the customer premises. This family adds PSTN-quality VoIP capabilities to Residential and SOHO broadband gateways, ATAs and small enterprise-class IP-based PBXs. These devices offer field-proven voice firmware, superior packet-loss tolerance and latency, high-speed data performance, integrated security features (DES, 3DES, SHA-1 and MD5), standard interfaces (Ethernet, SLIC and SLAC), and common platform solutions from one to eight channels. PMC-Sierra’s VoIP solutions enable voice, video and data convergence in current and emerging home and enterprise broadband applications. For more information visit www.pmc-sierra.com/voip.
About PMC-Sierra
PMC-Sierra(TM) is a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless infrastructure, storage, laser printers and customer premises equipment. PMC-Sierra offers worldwide technical and sales support, including a network of offices throughout North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the PMCS symbol and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more information, visit www.pmc-sierra.com.
About Advantage Century Telecommunication Corp.
Advantage Century Telecommunication Corporation, established in 1998, is a leading Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solution provider for customer premises equipment (CPE) with its operations offices in Taipei. ACT specializes and focuses on design, R&D, manufacturing, marketing and sales as well as OEM/ODM projects. With a professional research and development team that has over ten-year experience in the Telecommunication and Datacommunication industry, ACT VoIP products combine the reliability and high quality of traditional voice communication with flexible and extensible Internet protocol and packet transmission. For more information, visit the company’s Website at www.act-tel.com.tw.
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