Broadcom Releases New High Performance VoIP Processor
Source: www.voip-news.com
Broadcom Corporation has released a new high-performance VOIP digital signal processor. The processor is intended to simplify equipment design.
“Our carrier access VoIP developments are a natural evolution of the widely used VoIP silicon and software solutions provided by Broadcom in both enterprise and consumer applications,” said Greg Fischer, Vice President & General Manager of Broadcom’s Carrier Access line of business. “Utilizing our high performance and proven DSP technology, the BCM6515 scales nicely in terms of voice and media processing capabilities, and the fact that our customers can leverage their previous software developments will enable them to extend their product portfolio both at low risk and a lower development cost.”
According to Broadcom:
To provide even faster time-to-market for OEM partners, Broadcom also announced today the availability of its BCM96515 high performance voice line termination reference design, which is a joint collaboration between Broadcom and Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. The BCM96515 reference design is based on Broadcom’s BCM6515 DSP and BCM5481 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver chip, and Zarlink’s VoiceEdge(TM) VE792 next generation carrier chipset (NGCC). The Zarlink VoiceEdge VE792 chipset includes an octal subscriber line audio-processing circuit (SLAC) with an integrated carrier-grade line test toolbox, single channel subscriber line interface circuits (SLIC), and a multi-port voice control processor (VCP) that provides real-time call control functions, as well as carrier-grade line testing (when enabled with Zarlink LineCare(TM) software).
“Broadcom and Zarlink have a long established history of jointly bringing the highest quality voice solutions to market,” said Hank Perret, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Communication Products at Zarlink Semiconductor. “This latest joint platform now expands that relationship to carrier markets allowing line card designers to quickly deliver the lowest power consumption, highest density and best performing products with respect to line testing and cyclical redundancy checking within xDSL applications.”
