(PRWEB) December 14, 2005
Octasic Semiconductor is enhancing its OCT6100 family with the introduction of lower power, and lower cost devices, enabling higher density and the highest voice quality for customers designing down to 4 channels. The OCT6100L builds upon the proven success of the current OCT6100 devices, offering unprecedented Voice Quality Enhancement features through the use of 130nm technology.
As echo cancellation moves from a standalone box to an internal embedded feature of gateway and switching equipment, designers are faced with increasing demands for lower power to meet their density targets, while improving quality. Octasic has responded to this demand with the OCT6100L. The OCT6100L proves Octasic’s commitment to compress product development time for their customers and provide cost efficient, power efficient, performance driven silicon, while ensuring the longevity of the product for the enterprise and carrier equipment market space.
“With over 15 million ports deployed, the OCT6100 has been a great success. We are pleased with the acceptance of this architecture. Now, with the OCT6100L, Octasic can respond to the most stringent customer requirements for density and cost,” explains Doug Morrissey, Octasic CTO. “The result of our partnership with STMicroelectronics, this device represents the first of many that leverage their impressive capabilities to deliver market leading performance.”
The OCT6100L demonstrates the successful migration of the OCT6100 device to 130nm technology using the STMicroelectronics process, while continuing to deliver all the features of the popular OCT6100 device. As one of the leading suppliers of semiconductor devices in the world, STMicroelectronics allows Octasic to deliver the supplier stability and quality required by Telecom equipment manufacturers.
“We believe that the implementation of Octasic’s unique design in ST’s world-class process technology will result in a market leading product,” says Daniel Abecassis, Group Vice President and General Manager of ST’s Wireless Infrastructure Division. “The next step is to produce Octasic’s next-generation device that will take full advantage of ST’s 90nm process.”
Lower cost brings carrier quality to small equipments
With the rapid increase of IP based PBXs VoIP is being deployed in many demanding business environments. Meeting the voice quality expectations of customers is a major concern and challenge. By providing its carrier class solution at a cost point for small equipment Octasic provides customers with a competitive edge in voice quality.
Such proven features as Octasic Music Protection, Acoustic Echo Control (AEC), Adaptive Noise Reduction (ANR), and extensive conferencing capabilities allow for these IPBX equipment providers to easily implement high end capabilities in a uniform manner from the smallest to largest products.
Low-power devices enable equipment enhancement
By lowering the core voltage from 1.8V to 1.2V, the OCT6100L cuts the already impressive power performance of the original device in half, to less than 1.5 mW per fully featured channel. Combined with its ease of integration this device is perfectly suited to adding or enhancing echo cancellation of existing platforms providing a more cost effective solution for carriers.
By retaining all the features and functionality of the existing OCT6100 devices the OCT6100L leverages the extensive field experience of the existing devices which have been qualified into several leading carrier networks. The low power and space requirement of the solution provides the opportunity to retrofit existing equipments that require external echo cancellation with minimal re-design. Where previously this type of redesign would require a reduction in capacity to accommodate the boards required, a daughter board for an existing linecard now becomes an option, preserving the original configurations and density of the equipment.
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Pricing and availability
Samples of the OCT6100L are currently available; Production quantities are planned for early 2006, with pricing under $0.50 per channel in volume quantities.
About the OCT6100
A pioneer in the development of innovative silicon processors, Octasic’s OCT6100 family of devices is one of the industry’s most widely used voice quality processors. The OCT6100L, builds upon Octasic’s proven industry-leading density, power and cost devices, while assuring the most innovative technology for voice processing. Powered by Octasic’s unique algorithms, the OCT6100 family of devices offers extensive Voice Quality Enhancement features while requiring minimal integration, thereby simplifying design and reducing time-to-market. Octasic originally introduced the OCT6100 device ideally suited for the high-density market. Since then, to meet the changing requirements of the Network/VoP market, the company enhanced the device to offer features such as: advanced conferencing and music protection.
About Octasic Semiconductor
Octasic is a fabless semiconductor company designing, marketing, and supporting best-in-class silicon solutions that deliver exceptional voice quality for network equipment providers within the wireless, VoP, and TDM segments of the telecommunications industry. Octasic's innovative approach involves processors that are optimized to perform key voice functions such as carrier-grade echo cancellation, packetization, and compression. For more information about Octasic and its products, please visit http://www.octasic.com.
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