Mindspeed’s Comcerto Premise Equipment (CPE) Processor selected by Hitachi Hitachi to Create an Ultra-Low-Power Home Gateway for Japan’s Largest Service Provider in Rapidly Growing FTTH Access Network
Hitachi Selects Mindspeed®’s Comcerto® Processor to Deliver Triple-Play Home Gateway for Japan’s Largest, Fast-Growing Fiber Access Network
Ultra-Low-Power 2Gbps Gateway Combines WiFi, Packet IPTV and Carrier-Grade VoIP Capabilities
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD – News), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that the company’s Comcerto customer premise equipment (CPE) processor has been selected by Hitachi to create an ultra-low-power home gateway that features 2Gbps routing performance with concurrent WiFi and carrier-grade Voice-over-IP (VoIP) capabilities. Hitachi’s fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) gateways are being deployed by Japan’s largest service provider in its rapidly growing FTTH access network.
“We are pleased to have achieved this home-gateway breakthrough with Hitachi for Japan’s largest fiber access network,” said Raouf Halim, chief executive officer, Mindspeed. “Japan is the world leader in FTTH deployment, and a key proving ground for the latest CPE advances. Our Comcerto broadband gateway processors deliver superior CPE gateway power efficiency that we have perfected over five generations of in-house ARM-based development, plus robust router performance for sophisticated broadband services. In addition, Comcerto processors provide the same carrier-grade voice quality found in the more than 200 million voice ports shipped to telephone carriers around the world.”
“Power efficiency is increasingly critical in the broadband FTTH gateway market, and Mindspeed’s broadband gateway processor has helped Hitachi set a new standard in power-efficient gigabit triple-play routers,” said Takeshi Masuda, executive vice president, Telecommunications and Network Systems Division, Hitachi, Ltd. “This exciting new product for Japan’s largest fiber access network is a key strategic milestone for Hitachi, as we continue to enable the accelerating shift toward IP-based next-generation networks, while opening the door to future new services.”
Mindspeed’s Comcerto family of broadband gateway processors enables the future digital home with sophisticated, reliable services including broadband multimedia content delivery and high- definition (HD) voice. The dual-core processor platform maximizes packet throughput and uses a programmable software architecture, so that manufacturers can offer multiple system solutions for various deployments ranging from FTTH-based triple-play gateways to 3G/4G-routers and WiMAX integrated access devices (IADs). Mindspeed’s Comcerto platform not only gives service providers the reliable data and voice quality they need, but also provides the application headroom necessary to deploy a variety of new revenue-generating services to their broadband home.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE:HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 400,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2008 (ended March 31, 2009) consolidated revenues totaled 10,000 billion yen ($102.0 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials, logistics and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company’s website at http://www.hitachi.com.
About Mindspeed Technologies
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access, metropolitan and wide area networks.
The company’s three key product families include high-performance analog transmission and switching solutions, multiservice access products designed to support voice and data services across wireline and wireless networks, and WAN communications solutions including T/E carrier physical-layer and link-layer devices as well as ATM/MPLS network processors.
Mindspeed’s products are used in a wide variety of network infrastructure equipment, including voice and media gateways, high speed routers, switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems, add-drop multiplexers and digital loop carrier equipment.
To learn more, visit us at www.mindspeed.com.
