Broadcom Demonstrates Digital Gateway Solution For Distributing Broadband Services To And Throughout The Home

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of integrated circuits enabling broadband communications to and throughout the home and business, demonstrated a residential broadband gateway solution at the Western Cable Show, December 15 - 17 in the Los Angeles Convention Center.Leveraging its core technologies in cable modems, home networking and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Broadcom demonstrated how cable operators can economically deliver residential broadband services, including up to four lines of digital IP voice, video and data for telephone, fax, and Internet connections, to and throughout the home using one telephone wire.""This is the first public venue that demonstrates the convergence of our existing technologies with those from acquisitions made earlier this year,"" said Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III, President and CEO of Broadcom. ""Effective implementation of a residential broadband gateway solution requires cable modem, voice IP and home networking technology. Our ability to successfully combine these core technologies together into one solution now makes it economically feasible for cable operators to deliver digital voice, video and data services to and throughout the home.""""Our solution opens the door for cable operators to leverage the DOCSIS standard and aggressively go after the digital IP voice and data market,"" said Rich Nelson, Broadcom's Director of Marketing for Cable-TV. ""Cable operators now have a broadband solution that takes advantage of the existing wiring in the home or small business, providing them with a very low cost and simple-to-install solution for delivering enhanced digital IP telephony, fax, and high-speed Internet access.""Broadcom's VoIP iLine10ô Home Networking solution is the first HomePNA 2.0-compliant digital gateway that receives and transmits digital information over cable and distributes it throughout the home or small business over the existing phone wiring. This solution uses Broadcom's iLine10 home phone line networking technology to expand the bandwidth capacity of the existing telephone wire, enabling consumers to receive multiple digital services from their cable operator without additional wiring costs. Real-world applications that will benefit from this solution include:- High-speed Internet access throughout the home using one cable modem gateway.- Up to four separate compressed voice lines for telephone and fax, using one telephone wire pair. Existing solutions today require a separate wire pair for each line.- Hubless and low cost networking for sharing broadband Internet access and other networkable devices, including MP3 players and printers, without the need to invest in costly rewiring using traditional Ethernet Category 5 cabling.- Advanced IP Security (IpSEC), which is built into the Broadcom DOCSIS cable modem chipset, enabling highly secure home office Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) network connectivity to corporate office LANs.- Preservation of the standard legacy telephone (POTS) Class Services such as Caller ID, message waiting, call waiting and three-way calling.The demonstration is based upon Broadcom's VoIP/HomeNeworking reference design and iLine10 chipsets that serve as the basis for the HomePNA 2.0 networking technology. The gateway demonstrates digital IP voice and data traffic over a standard POTS phone line, which is then routed over the hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) cable network to a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) gateway providing worldwide telephone service. Broadcom products in the demonstration include the PacketCableô compliant BroadcomÆ BCM93310V 4-Channel DOCSIS 1.1 VoIP/Home Networking Reference Platform with Broadcom Canada's CablexChangeô VoIP software suite, the BCM93210C DOCSIS 1.1 Cable Modem Termination System Reference Platform, and the Broadcom Haub98 PSTN Gateway.The BCM93310V is a 4-channel VoIP HPNA 2.0 reference design based on the BCM3300 DOCSIS 1.0/1.1 single-chip cable modem, the BCM3310 MIPS secure communications processor and the BCM4210/4100 iLine10 chipset. The platform provides a flexible solution with multiple configurations and options to accelerate the development of PacketCable MTA-1 products, supporting 4-channels of G.7xx voice compression, 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet data services, Universal Serial Bus (USB) peripherals, and VLAN services.About BroadcomBroadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband digital data transmission of voice, data and video content to and throughout the home and within the business enterprise. Using proprietary technologies and advanced design methodologies, the Company designs, develops and supplies integrated circuits for a number of the most significant broadband communications markets, including the markets for cable set-top boxes, cable modems, high-speed office networks, home networking, direct broadcast satellite and terrestrial digital broadcast, and digital subscriber line (xDSL).

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