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Highly Integrated BCM1113R and BCM1115R Enable Consumer IP Phones and Appliances
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of silicon solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced two new Internet Protocol (IP) phone engine chips that enable manufacturers to economically build feature-rich IP phones for the residential, small office home office (SOHO), and small-to-medium sized business (SMB) markets.
VoIP-enabled broadband services using IP phones based on the new Broadcom® BCM1113R and BCM1115R offer the consumer and small office markets significant cost savings and feature advantages over traditional analog phones connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). These services include: high fidelity voice quality; the integration of voice, instant messaging, email and video; the integration of landline, wireless LAN and cellular; on-line gaming with voice; and more.
"In recent months, AT&T, SBC, Verizon and several other service providers have made announcements about rolling out VoIP-enabled services to residential and small-to-medium sized business users," said Paul Shore, Director of Marketing for Broadcom's VoIP Client Products. "Now that VoIP is rapidly moving toward mass acceptance in large enterprises, we are leveraging our proven strengths in a variety of broadband technologies to ensure that cost- effective IP telephony devices are available for the small-to-medium sized business and residential markets."
"We estimate strong growth in VoIP deployments worldwide over the next few years, from 8.5 million in 2003 to over 17.7 million in 2005, as consumers benefit from the increased availability and cost savings of IP telephony," said Sam Lucero, networking analyst for In-Stat/MDR. "Broadcom has proven its technology in the consumer markets through customers in the Asia-Pacific region and is strategically positioned to take advantage of the enormous growth opportunity of VoIP in the residential and small business markets."
Broadcom's BCM1113R and BCM1115R are highly integrated IP phone chips specifically targeted at the cost-sensitive consumer equipment market. Broadcom has a growing family of IP telephony solutions, which are currently shipping in volume production to leading manufacturers today for deployment of VoIP in enterprise and residential markets worldwide.
Broadcom's field-proven VoIP technology has been deployed in several residential markets throughout the Asia-Pacific region in equipment from iCableSystem and Ambit Microsystems. Together, these companies have deployed over four million residential VoIP units using Broadcom chips and software, and are currently selling their equipment to many of the largest carriers of consumer VoIP services in Japan.
Technical Product Information
Each of the BCM1113R and BCM1115R features an 87 MHz MIPS32™ RISC processor for advanced Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) applications, and an 87 MHz dual-MAC digital signal processor (DSP) to support voice signal processing. The DSP can support narrowband voice communication using G.711, G.729A, or BroadVoice™16, or wideband using G.722 or BroadVoice32. Full- duplex speakerphone capability is supported in conjunction with any of these voice compression techniques. The BCM1113R's integrated Ethernet switch enables the office PC and IP phone to share a single LAN connection, and supports IEEE 802.1p packet prioritization and 802.1q VLAN identification. The BCM1115R is a single Ethernet port version of the BCM1113R.
Both chips integrate analog CODECs capable of supporting both narrowband 8 Kilohertz (KHz) and wideband 16 KHz sampling, which, in conjunction with wideband voice coders, such as Broadcom's BroadVoice32, will enable IP phone networks to deliver high fidelity voice transmission. The integrated 10/100-Mbps Ethernet transceivers in both chips are designed and tested to withstand 2000 volts of cable-sourced electrostatic discharge (CESD), which prevents the system from being damaged or destroyed due to electric discharge during installation and cable insertion.
The BCM1113R and BCM1115R are currently shipping in volume production. Each is packaged in a 256-pin PBGA. The BCM1113R and BCM1115R cost $15.39 and $10.86, respectively, in 10,000 piece quantities.
Broadcom's IP Telephony Products
Broadcom's VoIP CPE chips are the most advanced solutions in the industry, offering a range of both high-end and basic voice and data capabilities. These chips coupled with Broadcom's proven Ethernet networking and VoIP gateway technologies are enabling manufacturers to deliver economical solutions for migrating businesses and residential customers to complete IP telephony systems.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. Using proprietary technologies and advanced design methodologies, Broadcom designs, develops and supplies complete system-on-a- chip solutions and related hardware and software applications for every major broadband communications market. Our diverse product portfolio includes solutions for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes; cable and DSL modems and residential gateways; high-speed transmission and switching for local, metropolitan, wide area and storage networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and terrestrial wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband network processors; and SystemI/O™ server solutions. These technologies and products support our core mission: Connecting everything®.
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at 1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com .
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All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release, other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are forward- looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will," "should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.
Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in connection with the BCM1113R and BCM1115R product family include, but are not limited to, general economic and political conditions and specific conditions in the markets we address, including the volatility in the technology sector and semiconductor industry, trends in the broadband communications markets in various geographic regions, and possible disruption in commercial activities related to terrorist activity or armed conflict in the United States and other locations; the rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and products in the markets for VoIP telephony applications; delays in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets; our ability to scale our operations in response to increases in demand for our products and services; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry and assembly capacity and raw materials; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification, availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products; our ability to retain and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees in the numbers, with the capabilities, and at the compensation levels needed to implement our business and product plans; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the risks of producing products with new suppliers and at new fabrication and assembly facilities; the loss of a key customer; our ability to specify, develop or acquire, complete, introduce, market and transition to volume production new products and technologies in a timely manner; the timing of customer-industry qualification and certification of our products and the risks of non- qualification or non-certification; the volume of our product sales and pricing concessions on volume sales; the effects of new and emerging technologies; changes in our product or customer mix; intellectual property disputes and customer indemnification claims and other types of litigation risk; problems or delays that we may face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration; the quality of our products and any remediation costs; the effectiveness of our expense and product cost control and reduction efforts; the risks and uncertainties associated with our international operations, particularly in light of recent events; the effects of natural disasters, public health emergencies, international conflicts and other events beyond our control; the level of orders received that can be shipped in a fiscal quarter; and other factors.
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Broadcom Public Relations Contact
Jeremy Hyatt
Communications Specialist
949-926-5971
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Broadcom Business Press Contact
Bill Blanning
Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
949-926-5555
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Broadcom Technical Contact
Paul Shore
Director, VoIP Client Products
604-233-8667
shore@broadcom.com
Broadcom Investor Relations Contact
T. Peter Andrew
Sr. Director, Investor Relations
949-926-5663
tpandrew@broadcom.com
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