Collaboration Uses Market-Segment Leading Mixed-Signal Technologies to Support Comprehensive EDA360 Solution for Silicon Realization

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS – News), the leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced its support for TSMC Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) Reference Flow 1.0 for advanced 28-nanometer process technology. The collaboration between Cadence and TSMC on this new reference flow will help accelerate time to market for advanced mixed-signal designs, help reduce redundant investment in design infrastructure and improve return on investment.

“The collaboration with Cadence is integral to the success of our customers delivering advanced analog/mixed-signal designs,” said Tom Quan, deputy director of design methodology and service marketing at TSMC. “The TSMC AMS Reference Flow for 28 nanometer represents the industry’s most complete methodology for creating, verifying and producing silicon that takes advantage of the latest process technology. We look forward to continuing our work with Cadence and the entire TSMC Open Innovation Platform ecosystem to ensure that our technologies keep pace with emerging design challenges and maximize our customers’ investment in design infrastructure.”

The reference flow enhancements deliver significant assistance to design teams tasked with achieving efficient and cost-effective Silicon Realization, a key pillar of the Cadence EDA360 strategy.

Cadence mixed-signal technologies provide extremely comprehensive support for TSMC’s new 28-nanometer reference flow, addressing the steps required to get a design into silicon. The collaboration between Cadence and TSMC directly addresses the increasing complexity and integration in analog and mixed-signal functionality in the silicon designs used in wireless, networking, consumer and other applications.

“With the increasing complexity of wireless, networking, consumer and CPU designs, the analog and mixed-signal IP can represent more than 50 percent of a chip design,” said Sandeep Mehndiratta, group director of product management at Cadence. “Cadence’s support of TSMC AMS Reference Flow 1.0 optimized for TSMC silicon technology delivers a comprehensive design, verification and implementation solution to our customers for realizing highest quality advanced mixed-signal designs on 28 nanometers.”

The TSMC reference flow incorporates the broad suite of Cadence technology offerings from the Virtuoso platform, delivering extensive coverage for design, verification and implementation of AMS IP on 28 nanometers. Based on proven methods for advanced 28-nanometer designs, Cadence technology, in collaboration with TSMC, enables schematic design, AMS verification, RF and transient noise analysis, yield sensitivity analysis, constraints-driven layout, analog placement and routing, physical verification, DFM-aware parasitic extraction, IR drop and electromigration analysis.

About Cadence
Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today’s integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at www.cadence.com.

Freescale Multicore DSP Performs High-Definition Video Compression Processing for Radvision’s Next-Generation SCOPIA Elite 5000 Series

Freescale Semiconductor’s high-performance MSC8144 multicore digital signal processor (DSP) has been selected by Radvision for use in its latest high-definition SCOPIA Elite 5000 Unified Communications Video Infrastructure Multiparty Conferencing Unit.

Radvision is an industry leading provider of products for unified visual communications over IP and 3G networks, offering a comprehensive set of standards-based video networking infrastructure technologies.

The new SCOPIA Elite 5000 Series is Radvision’s next-generation solution for high-definition multiparty conferencing. The SCOPIA Elite platform utilizes Freescale’s MSC8144 DSP to deliver multi-channel 1080p processing, telepresence connectivity, dynamic resource allocation and individual video layouts per participant, yielding uncompromised high-definition support.

Tuned for a myriad of wireline and wireless applications, Freescale’s MSC8144 DSP is the workhorse behind SCOPIA Elite high-definition video compression processing, enabling it with high channel density, energy efficiency and form factor advantages. The MSC8144 combines four high-performance 1 GHz DSP cores based on SC3400 StarCore™ technology with 10 MB internal memory and high-speed interconnects such as Serial RapidIO® and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.

“Freescale’s MSC8144 significantly improves our overall SCOPIA product-line efficiency by providing support for the latest video standards and resolutions, very high channel densities, throughput and increased system flexibility,” said Orly Nicklass, vice president of R&D for Radvision. “As a leading supplier in the video infrastructure market, Radvision is pleased to offer our customers products that leverage the performance and programmability of Freescale’s industry-leading DSP technology.”

Once considered only an alternative to travel, videoconferencing is now a conventional method for conducting live meetings and has become a core business tool for both large and small enterprises. The increasingly rapid deployment of videoconferencing systems is the result of improved reliability, quality of service, lower equipment and bandwidth costs and the migration to IP networks. Other contributing factors to this growth include the availability of scheduling tools, as well as improved centralized management and ease-of-use.

“Radvision is recognized as a worldwide leader in videoconferencing technology and has helped make possible a never-before-achievable level of reliability and consistency within the videoconferencing environment,” said Scott Aylor, director and general manager of DSP products for Freescale’s Networking and Multimedia Group. “Videoconferencing technology is rapidly becoming more mainstream, and Freescale’s investment in highly advanced DSP technologies is helping drive new levels of performance for video infrastructure applications.”

About Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations around the world. www.freescale.com.

Fully programmable MSC825x DSP family scales from one to six cores; helps lower system cost as much as 50 percent

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a family of programmable digital signal processors (DSPs) that delivers the optimal blend of low cost and high performance for a broad range of applications in the medical, aerospace/defense and test/measurement markets. Based on the industry-leading performance of Freescale’s SC3850 StarCore® DSP core, the MSC825x family of scalable DSPs offers more performance and functionality at half the cost of comparable alternative technologies.

Freescale’s SC3850 core recently earned the industry’s best-ever fixed-point BDTImark2000™ benchmark score from independent signal-processing technology analysis firm Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (www.BDTI.com). The new MSC825x family of multicore DSPs brings the performance of the SC3850 core to additional applications that require high performance, reusable hardware platforms and flexible software architectures.

Freescale’s MSC825x family consists of four pin-compatible, fully programmable, single-, dual-, four- and six-core DSPs. Integrated features such as multiple DDR controllers, two Serial RapidIO® interfaces and a PCI Express® interface make designing with the MSC825x devices highly flexible. Pin and peripheral compatibility with Freescale’s MSC815x family enables code and tool reuse and allows customers to scale from a single-core device to multicore devices, or to create multiple products based on the same hardware.

“With the introduction of the MSC825x DSP family, we are extending the value of Freescale’s high-performance StarCore technology to additional customers in high-growth markets,” said Scott Aylor, general manager and director of DSP products for Freescale’s Networking and Multimedia Group. “Manufacturers of medical, aerospace/defense and test/measurement equipment can look forward to significant cost savings and outstanding performance from Freescale’s newest family of programmable DSPs.”

The MSC825x family’s processing performance enables additional channels for TETRA base stations, as well as advanced measurement capabilities for wireless communication testers. State-of-the-art, high-bandwidth, low-latency peripheral interfaces permit customers to interconnect multiple DSP processors without the need for Layer 2 switching, reducing customers’ system cost. Test/measurement applications enjoy increased throughput and reduced software complexity, and medical applications such as CT scanners gain real-time communication capabilities and more accurate control.

“The new MSC825x family serves notice that Freescale’s DSPs are a force to be reckoned with beyond just the communications infrastructure space,” said Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts. “The cost and performance advantages of the MSC825x family are substantial and stand to significantly benefit OEMs targeting equipment for a wide range of markets.”

Unparalleled performance

At the high end of the family, the MSC8256 device is based on six SC3850 StarCore DSP cores running at 1 GHz on a single die delivering 6 GHz of raw DSP performance, or 48 GMACs (Giga Multiply and Accumulate) per second of DSP core performance. This is a 2X increase in performance in comparison to the nearest competing solution. Comprehensive memory support includes two 64-bit DDR3 running at 800 MHz to enable fast system throughput for multicore DSPs. A rich peripheral set includes 2x Serial RapidIO (4 lane) and PCI Express x4 interfaces, allowing fast communication between FPGA and DSP to DSP.

Development tools and software

Freescale offers a full set of development tools and enablement software for the MSC825x devices. The CodeWarrior™ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) leverages Eclipse™ technology to provide a highly comprehensive multicore development environment for easy programmability. It includes C and C++ optimizing compilers, a source level debugger, core and device simulators, software analysis plug-ins for profiling and program/data trace, and the royalty-free SmartDSP-OS operating system delivered with optimized device drivers. Development boards are available to enable software development, and customers can test their applications today using the MSC8156 and MSC825x application development board or the MSC8156AMC card.

Availability

Pricing for the MSC825x DSP family starts at a suggested resale price of $75 (USD) in quantities of 1,000. Samples are planned for Q2 2010, and production is planned for Q3 2010.

For more information please visit www.freescale.com/dsp.

About Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations around the world. www.freescale.com.

Highly Integrated Transport Signaling Hardware/Software Solution Improves Time to Market for Telecommunications Equipment Developers

Aricent®, a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, today announced the availability of the company’s Network-Proven Telecom Signaling Platform on several high-density Signal System 7 (SS7) plug-in modules from Interphase Corporation (Interphase®). The collaboration to provide pre-integrated solutions creates a proven, off-the-shelf signaling solution for Network and Telecommunications Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

Interphase delivers flexible, scalable and modular cutting-edge technology solutions. The company’s overall portfolio includes appliances, blades and modules in various form-factors for interworking, connectivity and packet processing, in addition to engineering design and contract manufacturing services. The SS7 product line – based on signaling-optimized iSPAN® hardware platforms and the Interphase iWARE® Software Development Suite (SDS) – is now powered by Aricent’s software including high-level protocol stacks, application software and rapid application development tools.

Specifically designed to accelerate service deployment, minimize costs and increase ROI, Aricent’s Signaling Software Platform offers unmatched flexibility along with comprehensive manageability. Its comprehensive, easy to use application programming interface (API) can be quickly integrated with customer applications and offers simultaneous support for SS7 and SIGTRAN over Windows, Linux and Solaris platforms. Aricent’s Signaling platform incorporates industry leading SS7 and SIGTRAN protocol stacks, which have been deployed by nearly 150 customers globally. The solution has enabled a broad array of Telecom nodes such as SMS Router/Gateways, Signaling Gateways, Home Location Registers (HLR), Equipment Identity Registers (EIR) and a full complement of Value Added Service (VAS) applications – such as Messaging, Missed Call Alert applications, Roaming solutions, Unstructured Supplementary Services, Location Based Services and Ring Back Tone (RBT) services.

“The combination of Aricent’s Signaling Software with our broad range of SS7 modules provides a tremendous advantage to our mutual customers,” said Marc Orange, senior product marketing manager at Interphase. “This pre-integrated, optimized and integration ready multi-platform signaling solution enables telecom OEMs to begin their application development and integration a full step further into the cycle than using our existing robust development tools alone. This further reduces complicated, time consuming development and integration efforts and accelerates time to market.”

Interphase SS7 iSPAN modules support the standard telecom server form-factors, including PCI/PCI-X, PCI Express® (PCIe), low-profile PCIe cards for rack-mount systems, and AdvancedMC™ (AMC) modules for AdvancedTCA® (ATCA) and MicroTCA™ (uTCA) systems. These high-density solutions are available with 4 or 8 T1/E1/J1 ports and support up to 248 Low Speed Links or 8 High Speed Links. Providing a common API and software environment across the iSPAN series, the iWARE SDS is an integrated set of embedded firmware, protocol layers (MTP1-2, AAL5, SSCOP, SSCF, etc.), APIs, host drivers, and utilities that accelerates the development of applications and eases the integration of iSPAN modules.

The challenge for telecom OEMs today is to enable providers to quickly develop and deploy new applications like messaging, charging, location based services and voice and video services. These solutions demand high flexibility and scalability along with simultaneously supporting SIGTRAN and SS7. Aricent’s Signaling Software is an ideal building block for delivering these VAS solutions. The software suite features a comprehensive set of easy-to-use user APIs and a simple management interface. This helps VAS providers speed up application development and reduce the associated complexity. The solution’s innovative distributed architecture makes it a highly flexible and scalable solution.

“Aricent is very pleased to be working with Interphase to deliver high performance, multi form-factor solutions for vendors who require production-ready transport signaling solutions,” said C.P Murali, senior vice president at Aricent. “Aricent’s joint offering with Interphase provides a valuable solution in today’s VAS market where solution providers are competing aggressively to quickly develop and deploy differentiated carrier-grade offerings.”

The pre-integrated SS7 signaling solution is now available, as respective components from Aricent and Interphase. Equipment manufacturers may contact either Aricent or Interphase to get started with this development-accelerating solution.

Keywords & tags: Aricent, SS7, SIGTRAN, transport signaling, ATCA, ISUP, MAP, CAP, SCCP, MTP3, M3UA, SCTP, USSD, CRBT, SMS, HLR, EIR, Roaming, LBS, Messaging, AdvancedMC, AMC, PCI-X, PCI Express, PCIe, iSPAN, Interphase, iWARE

About Aricent

Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in communications as a strategic supplier to the world’s foremost infrastructure, application and service providers. The company’s investors include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. For more information, visit http://www.aricent.com.

About Interphase

Interphase Corporation (Nasdaq:INPH – News) delivers solutions for LTE and WiMAX, interworking gateways, packet processing, network connectivity, and security for key applications for the Communications, Aerospace-Defense, and Enterprise markets. Founded in 1974, Interphase provides expert Engineering Design and Contract Manufacturing Services, in addition to its COTS portfolio, and plays a leadership role in next generation AdvancedTCA® (ATCA), AdvancedMC™ (AMC), PCI-X, and PCIe standards and solutions. Interphase is headquartered in Plano, Texas, with its European office in Chaville, France. Visit www.iphase.com.

Aricent® is a registered trademark of Aricent Inc., in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

First Working Silicon at 150 MHz Showcased at ESC

NXP Semiconductors today announced that it will demonstrate working silicon of its newest microcontrollers based on the ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor at ESC Silicon Valley 2010. NXP is one of the first ARM partners to license the Cortex-M4 processor, a highly efficient solution for digital signal control applications, and is the first to demonstrate working silicon. The demo and classes based on this Digital Signal Controller (DSC) will take place at ESC Silicon Valley (April 27 through 29) at NXP booth number 1508.

NXP’s Cortex-M4 DSC family is implemented using an ultra low-leakage 90-nm process technology. This enables performance in excess of 150MHz, as well as very low active power consumption. In addition, the MCUs will offer extremely low power down currents using techniques proprietary to NXP. Featuring the high-efficiency signal processing functionality of the Cortex-M4, the NXP microcontrollers are designed for a broad range of applications, including sophisticated motor control, digital power control and embedded audio.

Traditional microcontrollers are designed to perform control-oriented applications but are not well suited for sophisticated digital signal processing algorithms. Adding a separate DSP can make the overall system extremely complex and costly. However, with the optimized high-performance DSP extensions on the Cortex-M4, this new class of DSC is designed to solve both control and signal processing easily and seamlessly.

The ARM Cortex-M4 processor has an extensive set of single cycle multiply-accumulate (MAC) instructions; optimized single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instructions; saturated arithmetic instructions; as well as a single precision Floating Point Unit (FPU). Coupled with speeds exceeding 150MHz, NXP’s Cortex-M4-based MCUs are ideal for processing analog data and complex processing algorithms.

“Our newest microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M4 processor will be an important part of NXP’s High Performance Mixed Signal portfolio, providing embedded system designers with an effective way to process data from complex analog peripherals,” said Geoff Lees, vice president and general manager, microcontroller product line, NXP Semiconductors. “The DSP extensions of the Cortex-M4 offer significant advantages, for example, offering 5 to 10 times improvement in complex DSP algorithms.”

The ESC Silicon Valley demo will show that a 7-channel audio graphic equalizer application processing 32-bit precision audio data requires only 12 MHz of CPU bandwidth using the Cortex-M4 DSP extensions, and 60 MIPs without.

“NXP and ARM have brought together technologies that will change the landscape of DSC market significantly,” said Paul Beckmann, CEO of DSP Concept. “We are already porting all of our algorithms to support the NXP DSC platform.”

NXP now offers an entire continuum of microcontrollers that span the Cortex-M0, Cortex-M3 and the Cortex-M4, offering a complete range of performance, power and price points to meet customers’ embedded needs.

Availability
NXP is engaging with key customers now and is on track to deliver functional products to the broader market at the beginning of 2011.

Further information on NXP’s extensive portfolio of low-power microcontrollers, including the industry’s broadest range of 32-bit MCUs, is available at:
http://ics.nxp.com/microcontrollers/
http://ics.nxp.com/lpczone/

About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions that leverage its leading RF, Analog, Power, Digital Processing and manufacturing expertise. These innovations are used in a wide range of automotive, industrial, consumer, lighting, medical, computing and identification applications. Headquartered in Europe, the company has about 28,000 employees working in more than 25 countries and posted sales of USD 3.8 billion in 2009. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.

High Capacity, DSP-Based Video Transcoding Acceleration Blade Now Available

SURF Communication Solutions (www.surf-com.com), the leading provider of video and voice enabling technologies, today announced the launch of TranSURF – DSP-based, video transcoding acceleration blade offered in PCIe and AMC form factors.

Designed to meet the rapidly escalating market demand for delivering high quality video from multiple sources to multiple devices, TranSURF is a DSP-based system, enabling optimal video-stream density.

The need for high-density transcoding emerges from the growing matrix of content sources, target-screens, and different bit-rates. Many systems already require simultaneous, real-time transcoding of hundreds and thousands of high-resolution video streams. Currently available solutions use Host Media Processing (HMP), which, while it may be the simple approach for handling a few video streams, cannot be sufficiently scaled-up to deal with high capacity transcoding needs. The growing demand for real time transcoding makes a DSP-based solution a must.

Continuing SURF’s commitment to providing flexible yet high density video enabling technologies, TranSURF accelerates multimedia transcoding through the implementation of an innovative software/hardware solution for both live and on-demand content.

Avi Fisher, CTO and co-founder of SURF, explained, “The ability to transcode hundreds of high-resolution video streams in real-time, with a single blade, offers a huge advantage to video service and content providers. With the explosion of video traffic, we recognized the need for a high density solution that could be simply and quickly integrated into our customers’ systems. We’re thrilled to be able to offer this to the market. SURF will continue to improve channel density and cost-per-session, and anticipates significant further technology innovations in the coming quarters.”

TranSURF not only boosts transcoding capabilities, but also provides enrichment tools for content monetization including text overlay, picture-in-picture and logo insertion. Furthermore, TranSURF was designed to integrate with the leading video servers including: Adobe® Flash® Media Server, HTTP-Live Server (iPhone®), Microsoft® Silverlight® and Wowza© Media Server.

Representatives of SURF will be attending the NAB Show, 12-15 April in Las Vegas. To schedule a meeting to learn more about TranSURF or the SURF Engine, please contact sales@surf-com.com.

About SURF Communication Solutions (www.surf-com.com)

SURF Communication Solutions provides the SURF Engine, powering video and voice applications in mobile, TV and web markets. Using the SURF Engine vendors develop new systems, while shortening time-to-market, minimizing risk, focusing on differentiation, demonstrating winning quality, and capturing market opportunities. SURF is already powering hundreds of different systems, serving many millions of users worldwide. For more information, visit www.surf-com.com.

Optametra’s Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers, Tektronix DPO72004B Oscilloscope Enable Visualization of Complex PM-QPSK Signals

BEAVERTON, Ore., March 16, 2010 – Tektronix, Inc.,- Tektronix, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced that the accurate, fast acquisition system of the Tektronix DPO72004B oscilloscope combined with OM4105 and OM4106 Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers from Optametra deliver unprecedented ability to visualize and measure coherent polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying (PM-QPSK) signals in realtime.

Tektronix and Optametra will be providing a joint demonstration of the solution during the OFC/NFOEC conference March 23-25 in San Diego, Calif. To view the joint demonstration, please visit the Tektronix booth# 1543 or the Optametra booth# 1406. OFC/NFOEC is the world’s leading global conference for optical communications and networking professionals.

Optical transmission rates above 10 Gb/s significantly increase signal distortion caused by fiber impairments. To solve this problem, the industry is turning to PM-QPSK paired with coherent detection. This complex modulation scheme gives carriers the ability to grow data rates significantly over their existing fiber infrastructure.

The challenges of testing PM-QPSK are considerable, involving a complex optical modulator and demodulator, and realtime signal capture on 4 channels simultaneously. When paired with Tektronix’ 20GHz oscilloscopes, Optametra’s signal analyzers are the first commercial tools to measure and display the full optical field of coherent signals at these bandwidths. Using an open-architecture MATLAB-based computational engine, Optametra’s solutions provide in-phase and quadrature eye diagrams, constellations, data waveforms, bit-error ratios (BER) for both polarizations of light in fiber and record/playback. A graphical user interface controls frequently used instrument functions.

To support their customers making 100G optical measurements, Optametra purchased the Tektronix DPO72004B oscilloscope. In turn, many of Optametra customers are selecting the same Tektronix oscilloscope as well because of the need for a fast realtime acquisition system with very high signal integrity across 4 channels. “Thanks to the flat frequency response, fast rise times and low noise floor provided by Tektronix instruments, we can confidently state that our OM4000 series analyzers capture the complete electric field of the optical signal at a full 112 Gb/s,” said Daniel van der Weide, vice president of engineering for Optametra. “Through our association with Tektronix, we enable customers to characterize, install and monitor complex modulation transceivers on the bench, on the floor, and in the field.”

The four-channel DPO70000B Series oscilloscopes combine industry-leading bandwidth of 20 GHz with the highest waveform capture rate, best signal fidelity, lowest noise floor. They provide support on all channels simultaneously for high bandwidth, deep memory, fast sample rate, and fast waveform capture rate.

“The use of the DPO72004B to accurately visualize and analyze ‘bleeding edge’ 100G signaling is yet another example of why Tektronix is the world leader in oscilloscopes,” said Brian Reich, general manager, Performance Oscilloscopes, Tektronix. “By working with Optametra, customers can take advantage of a complete and open solution to complex measurement challenges in long-haul fiber-optic communications.”

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About Optametra
Optametra, LLC is a privately held company dedicated to developing instrumentation that enables customers to develop, manufacture, install, and monitor complex modulation transceivers. Optametra: complex measurements made simple. For more information, go to: www.optametra.com.

About Tektronix
For more than sixty years, engineers have turned to Tektronix for test, measurement and monitoring solutions to solve design challenges, improve productivity and dramatically reduce time to market. Tektronix is a leading supplier of test instrumentation for engineers focused on electronic design, manufacturing, and advanced technology development. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix serves customers worldwide and offers award-winning service and support. Stay on the leading edge at www.tektronix.com.

DSP85-PS7 Features Industry’s Sharpest Filtering, Remote Control/Monitoring With Unlimited Spectrum Agility

MANCHESTER, NH–(Marketwire – 03/09/10) – Cellular Specialties, Inc. (CSI), a recognized leader in the design and implementation of in-building wireless products and installation services, will reveal its new DSP85 Digital Repeater in a Public Safety 700 MHz model at IWCE 2010, booth #3077, March 10-12, Las Vegas Convention Center, NV.

The company’s DSP (Digital Signal Processing) technology is utilized to achieve the highest level of performance and spectrum agility for public safety communications. DSP filtering provides unmatched band selectivity and can be finely tuned to help overcome difficult RF problems such as adjacent channel interference. In addition, CSI’s digital repeater permits re-tuning of multiple pass-band configurations, locally or remotely, enabling better management with virtually no system downtime. The graphical user interface (GUI) allows for effortless set up and monitoring via a standard Web browser. The new DSP85 public safety 700 MHz model features 85 dB of gain and covers a frequency range of 794-806 and 764-776 MHz.

“The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and other non-profit member organizations have recently released guidelines recommending buildings have adequate wireless signals to ensure mission critical communications for first responders via their radios or other wireless devices,” said Scott Goodrich, president of the CSI product division. “CSI is working to ensure these guidelines are complied with by developing in-building public safety products as well as providing expert installation services to ensure reliable and secure public safety communications — even in hard to reach areas or challenging RF environments.”

With over a decade of design, installation, and product development experience, CSI offers an extensive line of 700 and 800 MHz public safety products as well as implementation services to enable UHF/VHF, 700/800 MHz, paging, and two-way radio public safety communications.

Visit CSI online at www.cellularspecialties.com or stop by booth #3077 at IWCE 2010 to learn more about the company’s public safety products and solutions.

About CSI

Cellular Specialties, Inc. (CSI) is a world-class organization that delivers superior products and services to enable anytime, anywhere in-building wireless connectivity. The CSI product division specializes in the development of in-building amplifiers, repeaters, and a variety of system components. To ensure that the optimal services are provided, CSI formed the Custom Solutions Group (CSG). CSI’s consultative and product neutral approach enables the company to develop customized solutions for every client. CSI’s Custom Solutions Group (CSG) also holds the distinction of being the only in-building wireless service organization approved by all major wireless service providers in the United States. For information about CSI call 877-844-4CSI or visit www.cellularspecialties.com

Cable Industry Gets First Public Demonstrations of Sentry’s new Reason Code Reporting Tool at the SCTE Canadian Summit

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mixed Signals, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, today announced that it has added significant new reporting and analysis features to its award-winning Sentry® digital content monitoring solution that enable video service providers to track, isolate and repair even the most complex video and audio errors in their programming. Mixed Signals is demonstrating Sentry’s new Reason Codes capability in its booth (714) at this week’s Canadian Summit of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) in Toronto.

Reason Codes are an enhancement to Mixed Signals’ state-of-the-art Audio and Video QoE Scoring System – which accurately gauges the severity of errors – and provide added detail to show the causes of impairment behind a particular quality of experience (QoE) score. The combination of Reason Codes together with Sentry’s unprecedented ability to detect video and audio quality errors gives service providers a more complete picture of particularly complex and recurring QoE issues, which enables more accurate and quicker diagnoses and repairs.

“We continue to listen to our customers to provide the capabilities and tools they need to zero-in on even the most complex video and audio quality errors,” said Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals. “Sentry’s new Reason Codes are the latest example of our commitment to adding new features and functionality to Sentry to keep it the most advanced and comprehensive solution for ensuring that service providers deliver their programming with best possible quality while keeping operational costs low.”

Sentry’s Reason Codes will be available in an upcoming software update that will support already deployed Sentrys and will come standard with new models.

About Sentry

Mixed Signals’ award-winning Sentry is a comprehensive and scalable monitoring solution that uniquely enables video service providers to better manage their networks to deliver services with optimum quality and to reduce their operational expenses. Sentry identifies anomalies in the network at the IP and MPEG layers, as well as in QoE, identifying hundreds of issues, including video freeze, video black and the loss of audio, which represent the bulk of trouble calls from subscribers. Sentry’s single rack unit (RU) appliance ensures easy deployment in even the smallest hubs and its ability to be remotely managed eliminates the need for technicians to service Sentrys installed in remote locations.

Sentry is in widespread use with top tier video service providers, including the top nine U.S. cable operators, three of the top five Canadian cable operators and other providers all over the globe.

Complementing its sales success, Sentry’s advanced capabilities and market-leading performance have been recognized with seven industry awards.

About Mixed Signals

Mixed Signals provides the most comprehensive and scalable digital content monitoring solutions from the source to the edge including digital services, transport streams, ad insertion, switched digital video, video on demand and interactive content. Mixed Signals’ innovative products offer unparalleled visibility into video streams and digital services in real time. The Company’s products are known for their ease of use and deliver critical intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior, trending analyses, and actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. More than any other product on the market today, Mixed Signals monitoring solutions enable cable and satellite television operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and IPTV providers to simplify deployments of new services and applications, and to future-proof and maximize the return on the investment in their digital networks.

For more information visit www.mixedsignals.com or call 310-227-8620.

Companies Expand on Existing International Voice Outsourcing Relationship, Leverage iBasis Global SS7/C7 Footprint to Reach More than 625 Mobile Networks

BURLINGTON, Mass. & COPENHAGEN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iBasis, a KPN company, and TDC, the leading telecommunications company in Denmark, today announced a long-term agreement through which iBasis will provide value-added mobile data services including global SS7/C7 signaling and ITU/ANSI conversion.

Through its Mobile Matrix portfolio of value-added mobile data services, iBasis has become a leading provider of roaming signaling services. The company’s global reach of more than 625 mobile network operators (MNOs) around the world provides iBasis’ roaming signaling customers with almost instant worldwide coverage from a single connection. The iBasis signaling network also features double redundancy, resulting in 100 percent reliability. Continuing its leadership in IP services, iBasis supports connectivity to the service via SIGTRAN and provides state-of-the-art monitoring tools for all of its roaming signaling customers.

“We are very happy to be partnering with iBasis for signaling and conversion services,” said Ole Hvelplund, Vice President of TDC. “iBasis’ services deliver the reliability and coverage we need in a very cost-efficient and timely manner and will be instrumental in helping us to enhance the services we provide customers and thereby grow our business.”

The mobile data services agreement builds upon a strategic relationship already in place between iBasis and TDC. In 2008, the companies established an outsourcing agreement through which iBasis carries all of TDC’s non-Nordic international voice traffic.

“We enjoy a very strong and mutually beneficial relationship with TDC on the voice side, and we’re very pleased to be expanding it with mobile data services,” said John van Vianen, CEO of iBasis. “We believe we are more than a supplier, we are a partner, and as such we are very motivated to help TDC leverage our capabilities to the fullest to enable their success.”

The iBasis Global Mobile Signaling and roaming services are part of the company’s Mobile Matrix portfolio. This includes SMS Hubbing and SMS Outbound Services, as well as Roaming Integrator Services for mobile operators. For more information about iBasis Mobile Matrix, visit the iBasis web site at http://www.ibasis.com/mobile-operators/index.aspx.

About iBasis

Founded in 1996, iBasis is a leading wholesale carrier of international long distance telephone calls and a provider of retail prepaid calling services and enhanced services for mobile operators. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of voice termination services, value-added messaging, signaling and roaming services for mobile operators, as well as outsourcing services for many of the world’s largest fixed and mobile operators and VoBB service providers. In December 2009, iBasis became a wholly-owned subsidiary of KPN. iBasis customers include KPN, KPN Mobile, E-Plus, BASE, TDC and many other large telecommunications carriers such as Verizon, Vodafone, China Mobile, China Unicom, IDT, Qwest, Skype, Telecom Italia, and Telefonica. The company can be reached at its worldwide headquarters in Burlington, Mass., USA at +1 781-505-7500 or on the Internet at www.ibasis.com.

About TDC

With nearly eight million customers, TDC is the leading provider of communications solutions in Denmark and a strong player in the Nordic business market. The company has evolved from a traditional provider of landline and mobile services into a dynamic provider of modern communications solutions. In all key markets in Denmark, TDC will continue to be the clear front-runner, and it is TDC’s goal to be the most efficient telecom operator in the Nordic region, providing the best coherent services on all terminals and networks, anytime, anywhere. The company’s shares are traded on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.