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SiTel’s VoIP solutions verified interoperable with BroadSoft’s BroadWorks

Validation by market-leading VoIP server software supplier ensures systems based on SiTel’s VoIP hardware and software will work seamlessly in the field

SiTel Semiconductor announced that a solution combining its SC14452 Green VoIP processor and Rhea VoIP software suite has been formally validated with BroadSoft’s latest BroadWorks release (Release 16). This validation by BroadSoft proves that systems based on the SC14452 processor and the Rhea suite work properly with the BroadWorks SIP interface. As a result, developers of such systems can be confident their products will operate seamlessly with the vast majority of VoIP servers.

Together, SiTel’s SC14452 second-generation Green VoIP processor and Rhea VoIP software platform form a complete hardware / software solution for developing robust VoIP applications. Thanks to SiTel’s proven multi-core architecture, the SC14452 delivers 240 MIPS of processing power and in-call power figures below 600 mW for a typical VoIP desktop phone application. It supports up to four concurrent wideband and narrowband IP channels, and includes a dedicated cryptography engine.

The software component of the solution, Rhea is a mature and versatile software platform based on the industry-standard µCLinux operating system. It includes a dual IPv4/v6 networking stack, plus a SIP stack and user agent. It also provides an extensive range of pre-developed applications such as automatic provisioning, a web server, user interfaces and media applications. The Rhea VoIP platform is available from SiTel on a license-free, royalty-free basis.

“SiTel is one of the few chipset suppliers capable of delivering complete hardware and software solutions for VoIP applications. This validation of our Rhea suite by the suppliers of the world’s leading VoIP server software means our customers can be confident the products they develop using our solutions will work perfectly in the field. That in turn maximizes market opportunities for system manufacturers and ease of use for end users,” said Mark De Clercq, Product Marketing Manager at SiTel.

“As a leading supplier of VoIP server software BroadSoft is committed to bringing end users the best and most natural experience possible when using this exciting new technology,” said Leslie Ferry, BroadSoft’s Vice President of Marketing. “We are pleased to confirm that SiTel’s devices and device firmware have successfully completed our SIP interface conformance validation. SIP offers a secure, flexible and easy to use way for residential devices to interface with the web and this validated interoperability ensures new SiTel Semiconductor-based VoIP products are fully interoperable with our server solutions.” • April 2010

Concerns over climate change and fossil fuel supplies have put energy efficiency of all products at the forefront of both consumer and government agendas. For example, the European Commission Regulation on ecodesign (implementing Directive 2005/32/EC) proposes limiting the standby power consumption of domestic and office devices initially to 2 W if the device has a display and 1 W otherwise. A future second phase will further tighten these limits to 1 W and 0.5 W. Similar legislation is currently making its way through Congress in the US. 
To help customers respond to these concerns and regulations, SiTel launched the Green VoIP range in 2008. These energy-efficient ICs allow manufacturers to create VoIP solutions that are environmentally friendly and reduce electricity bills. The first Green VoIP product, the SC14450, reduced the net system power consumption for typical desktop phone applications by 50% to around 800 mW during calls and 550 mW in idle mode. The next Green VoIP processor, the SC14452, pushed down power consumption even further to 550 and 350 mW respectively – meeting the most stringent proposed limits.

SiTel Semiconductor BV was established in June 2005, following a management buy-out from National Semiconductor Corporation. Headquartered in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. SiTel is a fabless IC manufacturer with design centers in The Netherlands and Greece along with regional sales offices in Hong Kong, Japan and the U.S. The company specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of high-performance CMOS solutions for digital cordless and corded communication and is the world’s number one DCT supplier for cordless voice, real-time data and VoIP.

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Vuzix Begins Shipping the First Ever Sunglass Form Augmented Reality Wrap 920AR Video Eyewear

Vuzix Corporation announced that it is now shipping the PC version of its much-anticipated Augmented Reality Wrap 920AR sunglasses, which were recently featured in the September issue of National Geographic Magazine. Early shipments are being made available to research and industrial organizations and to universities. The company expects to ship to its retail partners in the first quarter of 2011. The glasses, which are the world’s first augmented and mixed reality sunglasses, enable wearers to view the real-world environment and computer-generated imagery and data seamlessly, bringing mixed and augmented reality content to life.

Paul Travers, CEO Vuzix Corporation, said, “The Wrap 920AR breaks the barriers between real and virtual world consumer experiences and brings a world changing capability to the market in a state-of-the-art form factor.“ 

Mr. Travers continued, “With the Wrap 920AR video game developers and other publishers can design characters to come to life in your living room.  Magazines and books can have animated links back to the web in real time.  Further, there is countless business, education and health care applications that we anticipate our product will be used for, such as assembly, maintenance, warehouse management and logistics, medical surgery, training and education.  With our software development kit (SDK), which has now shipped to more than 2,700 application developers, we anticipate thousands of new, heretofore unachievable, applications to come to the market in the future.”

Available only in limited quantity, early shipments of the Wrap 920AR retail for £1499.00 / €1699.00 inc VAT, bundled with Vuzix’s MAXimum3D™ software, a plug-in for Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software.  MAXimum3D™ enables developers, designers, architects and animators to simply export their designs and characters, whether they be objects, structures, apartments, industrial designs or whole cities, so that they appear in the real world through the Wrap 920AR glasses. • Source: Vuzix (11-10-10)

Vuzix is a leading manufacturer of Video Eyewear; personal display devices that provide users with portable high quality viewing experiences. Vuzix started in the defense sector with a focus on R&D of next generation display solutions for the US DoD and the Special Operations community, and today is a leading supplier of display products for thermal sighting systems, tactical wearable displays and consumer products. Vuzix has 51 patents in the Video Eyewear field and provides solutions for mobile computing, tactical information display, video, virtual and augmented reality, and 3D entertainment. The Company addresses the defence, industrial, consumer and medical markets and has shipped well over 200,000 display solutions since its inception.

MWC 2010 • Multi-Core Multi-Threaded Processors and Knowledge-based Processors

NetLogic Microsystems Powers ZTE's Next-Generation Mobile Infrastructure Network Products

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. , a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced that ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has selected NetLogic Microsystems’ multi-core, multi-threaded XLR® processors and NL7000 knowledge-based processors for ZTE’s next-generation mobile core network products across TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000, WiMax, WCDMA and GSM.  ZTE’s next-generation mobile infrastructure network products are targeted at large telecommunications carriers to meet both the ever-growing needs for packet data bandwidth and the new features demanded by the evolving networks.   

“We have been very impressed with the superior performance of NetLogic Microsystems’ XLR multi-core, multi-threaded processor and NL7000 knowledge-based processor that has enabled us to deliver robust and scalable products which are unmatched in the market,” said Mr. Ziyang Xu, president of ZTE Core Network Products.  

“We are excited to have been selected by ZTE for their high-performance next-generation mobile core network equipment,” said Dr. Sunny Siu, president and general manager of Asia-Pacific at NetLogic Microsystems.  “We are excited to continue to see the successful adoption of our multi-core processors and knowledge-based processors in advanced 3G/4G mobile infrastructure systems worldwide.” 

NetLogic Microsystems’ multi-core, multi-threaded processors offers a rich set of features and functionality with unprecedented performance and power for embedded telecommunications, enterprise, data center, security and storage applications.  

These processors integrate up to eight high-performance MIPS64® cores, each with four-way simultaneous multi-threading, for a total of 32 fine-grain processor threads to mitigate latency, improve computational efficiency and throughput for network data plane and control plane processing in base stations, eNodeB, RNCs, gateways, switches, routers and AMC service cards. 

The processors also offer a best-in-class packet management, packet distribution and network accelerator engine, an intelligent Fast Messaging Network™ to maximize on-chip communications bandwidth, a superior memory sub-system, high-speed interconnects, and a broad set of acceleration engines. 

This enables NetLogic Microsystems’ multi-core processors to support billions of in-flight messages and packet descriptors between all on-chip elements.  The processor family is supported by a comprehensive software development kit (SDK) that contains reference and production-ready software components, which enables customers to accelerate time-to-market. 

The NL7000 family of knowledge-based processors delivers the high performance, superior parallel processing capabilities, low power and the ability to support large IPv6 database capacity.  The NL71024XT processor allows customers to cluster up to four knowledge-based processors per 100Gbps ASIC to further expand the database capacity. • 16-2-10

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. is a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions that are powering next-generation Internet networks.  NetLogic Microsystems’ best-in-class products perform highly differentiated tasks of accelerating complex network traffic to significantly enhance the performance and functionality of advanced 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructure, data center, enterprise, metro Ethernet, edge and core infrastructure networks.