Texas Instruments Network Support Package Enables Comprehensive Remote Management, Exceptional Voice and Sophisticated Quality of Service

Texas Instruments Network Support Package Enables Comprehensive Remote Management, Exceptional Voice and Sophisticated Quality of Service

May 11, 2006

Turn-Key Software Solution Provides Fast Time to Market With Key Routing and Management Features

    DALLAS, May 11 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments
Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) (TI) today announced it has made
substantial updates to its gateway software solution, the
Network Support Package (NSP) 3.7.1, enabling manufacturers
to quickly and easily make improvements across product lines
and realize faster time-to-market and return on investment.

    The latest version of this field-proven network stack
includes improved system performance and throughput,
enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) and policy routing,
enhanced Telogy Software(TM) for Voice over DSL
applications and improved remote management, including
support for DSL Forum TR-069.  Ideally suited for TI's
market-leading AR7 residential gateway solutions, NSP 3.7
is also designed for quick migration to devices based on
TI's next-generation UR8 architecture.

    "TI continues to invest in NSP to enable our
customers to maintain a competitive advantage and get to
market quickly," said D'Andre Ladson, product line
manager for TI's Residential Gateway and Embedded Systems
business.  "NSP 3.7 builds upon previous NSP offerings
with improved QoS, comprehensive remote management
capabilities and enhanced voice quality."
In addition to industry standard support of Telnet, Secure
Shell (SSH), ClearEoC and Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP), NSP 3.7.1 improves on remote management
with the addition of DSL Forum TR-069 support.  TR-069
defines a mechanism that encompasses secure
auto-configuration of a CPE and also incorporates other CPE
management functions into a common framework.  NSP 3.7.1 has
the system infrastructure to evolve as TR-069 supplemental
definitions continue to be introduced.

    NSP 3.7.1 also integrates a sophisticated QoS
framework, which provides much more than ensuring available
bandwidth and minimum delays for time-sensitive applications
such as video and voice.  NSP 3.7.1 solves the challenges of
supporting different QoS markings from different networks by
maintaining full control over packets from the time they are
received until the time they leave the gateway.  It also
leverages Telogy SoftwareTM to include support for
Supplementary Services, 2-port Foreign Exchange Station
(FXS) telephony interface support and secure Real-Time
Transport Protocol (RTP).  It also supports TI's PIQUA(TM)
embedded IP quality management technology, offering
real-time monitoring of IP services.  PIQUA technology
allows service providers to proactively assess network
quality parameters and dynamically adapt to changing
conditions to enhance the subscriber experience.

    Texas Instruments Broadband Solutions

    For OEMs developing broadband communications solutions,
TI's advanced signal processing-based silicon and software
platforms deliver the optimal performance, lower power
consumption, and system-level integration required to
rapidly deploy differentiated next-generation products for
cable modems, digital subscriber line (xDSL) modems,
integrated access devices (IADs), VoIP gateways, carrier
infrastructure, and home and office wireless networking.
See http://www.ti.com/broadband .

    About Texas Instruments

    Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP
and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world
signal processing requirements.  In addition to
Semiconductor, the company includes the Educational &
Productivity Solutions business.  TI is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales
operations in more than 25 countries.

    Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol TXN.  More information is located
on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com .

    Trademarks

    Telogy Software and PIQUA  are trademarks of Texas
Instruments.  All other trademarks and registered
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

    For more information, please contact:

     Penni Chaloux
     Texas Instruments
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Ramona Layne
     Golin/Harris
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

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