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IRVINE, Calif., Nov 10, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via Comtex/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced that the Broadcom® BCM1113 Internet Protocol (IP) phone chip is now shipping as a standard offering in Toshiba's IPT1020-SD enterprise IP telephones. The BCM1113 IP phone chip is designed for a wide variety of enterprise IP phones, which allow people to transmit and receive voice calls over the Internet using an Ethernet LAN connection in the office.
The integrated Ethernet switch (two port) capability in the BCM1113 enables manufacturers to develop IP phones that use the Ethernet switch connections of the IP Phone to support both voice calls through the phone and data traffic to the PC. This capability offers significant cost savings to businesses by eliminating the need to have two Ethernet connections in an office or to add switch ports in the wiring closet to support VoIP. As a result, the BCM1113 chip enabled Toshiba to offer an economical, high- performance IP phone solution to its customers and expand its enterprise Strata CTX digital business communication system product portfolio.
The IPT1020-SD IP phone is a key component of the Strata CTX system because it enables remote users to enjoy the same productivity features as those on the main office telephone network. The IPT1020-SD offers customers extension-to-extension dialing, busy lamp field (BLF) station status display, paging over telephone speakers, off-hook call announce over the telephone handset, voice mail and many other advanced telephony features.
"We are pleased to announce that our IP phone chip is now shipping as a standard component within Toshiba's Strata CTX enterprise IP phones, which is a significant milestone for Broadcom since Toshiba is recognized in the industry as an experienced, long-time enterprise telephony equipment company," said Paul Shore, Broadcom's Director of VoIP Client Products. "Our relationship with Toshiba is yet another example of how industry leaders are looking to Broadcom to provide them with innovative, high-quality voice IP solutions to support the transition from time-division multiplexing (TDM) to VoIP network services."
"Broadcom's feature-rich devices and outstanding technical support have enabled us to quickly and efficiently bring new cost-effective enterprise IP phones to market," said Kiyoshi Ishikawa, Senior Manager of Business Communication System Department, Toshiba. "The chip's high level of silicon integration and the proven reliability of the VoIP firmware package that operates on the chip have significantly reduced the development complexity and risk of our new IP phone programs."
Technical Background
The BCM1113 features a MIPS32® RISC processor to support advanced computer telephony integration (CTI) applications, and a powerful dual-MAC digital signal processor (DSP). The chip's integrated Ethernet MACs and wire-speed non-blocking 10/100 Ethernet switch support IEEE 802.1p packet prioritization and 802.1Q VLAN identification. Also integrated in the BCM1113 are analog CODECs capable of supporting both narrowband 8 Kilohertz (KHz) and wideband 16 KHz sampling, which in conjunction with wideband voice coders, such as the Broadcom® BroadVoice32™ coder, will enable IP phone networks to deliver high-fidelity voice transmission. The Ethernet transceivers 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.
Broadcom's Leading VoIP Market Position
Broadcom's IP phone chips are some of the most advanced solutions in the industry, offering a range of both high-end, mid-range, 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 to complete IP telephony systems.
The company's growing family of VoIP solutions is shipping in volume production to leading manufacturers for deployment in enterprise IP phones, residential terminal adapters and voice-enabled cable and DSL residential gateways worldwide. Broadcom is working with top tier OEMs, ODMs and service providers, including Aastra Telecom, Ambit Microsystems Corporation, AT&T, Avaya Inc., Foxconn, Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd, iCable System, Inter-tel, Iwatsu Electric, NEC Infrontia Corporation (NEC-i) and Toshiba Corporation.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. We design, develop and supply complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions incorporating digital, analog, radio frequency (RF), microprocessor and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies, as well as related hardware and software system-level applications. Our diverse product portfolio addresses every major broadband communications market and includes solutions for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes; high definition television (HDTV); cable and digital subscriber line (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 and security 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.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:
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," "ongoing," 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 our IP phone products, including the BCM1113, 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 IP phone applications; delays in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; our ability to retain, recruit and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees in the positions and numbers, with the experience and capabilities, and at the compensation levels needed to implement our business and product plans; our ability to specify, develop or acquire, complete, introduce, market and transition to volume production new products and technologies in a cost-effective and timely manner; the gain or loss of a key customer, design win or order; 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 scale our operations in response to changes in demand for our products and services; the timing of customer-industry qualification and certification of our products and the risks of non-qualification or non-certification; our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new markets; changes in our product or customer mix; the volume of our product sales and pricing concessions on volume sales; intellectual property disputes and customer indemnification claims and other types of litigation risk; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry and assembly capacity and raw materials; 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; 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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Communications Specialist
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