New Feature Rich IP Phone Chip From Texas Instruments Raises the Bar for Performance With Advanced Quality and Security

New Feature Rich IP Phone Chip From Texas Instruments Raises the Bar for Performance With Advanced Quality and Security

September 14, 2006

TI's Latest Addition to IP Phone Product Family to Considerably Enrich the VoIP Experience for Businesses of all Sizes

    BOSTON, Sept. 14 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Texas
Instruments Incorporated (TI) [NYSE:TXN] today announced a
full-featured Gigabit Ethernet IP phone software and
silicon solution that incorporates robust security and
enhanced voice quality features to meet the needs of small,
medium and large business Voice over IP (VoIP) users.  TI's
newest IP phone System-on-a-Chip (SoC) is designed on a
flexible and powerful digital signal processing (DSP)
platform that reduces development costs and helps speed
manufacturers' time to market in developing new IP phone
products that will increase productivity as well as lower
their cost of communications. 

    "As more companies migrate to IP communications,
they will require systems that are feature-rich to support
day-to-day business functions, while providing high-quality
voice," said Steve Raab, director IP Telephony Research
at Dell'Oro Group.  "To support these advanced
requirements, IP phones must be powerful enough to offer
advanced features such as wideband multi-party
conferencing, enhanced security support and fax terminal
adapter."

    At the core of TI's TNETV1051 solution is a
flexible150MHz DSP and a 300MHz RISC processor, with
increased processing capability to enable high-quality
voice transmission, enhanced security features and
additional software applications as required by customers.
As the market for enterprise IP phones continues to grow
and the demands for more robust features on IP-based
devices becomes evident, TI's digital signal processing
platform enables powerful and unique applications on IP
phones that were previously unachievable. For example, the
TNETV1051 can support multiple wideband codecs on an IP
phone, including four-way wideband conferencing.  With
wideband codecs, audio bandwidth has an expanded range
resulting in significant improvements in clarity and
naturalness of speech. Users who have placed a call using
wideband codec technology often liken the experience to
having a face-to-face conversation with someone in the same
room. 

    Emphasizing convergence in its VoIP platform, the
TNETV1051 also offers a series of gateway-like features on
the platform, such as FXS and T.38 fax relay, enabling
faxes to be sent to and from IP phone connections, or from
an analog phone to an IP phone.  With security becoming an
increasing concern among both manufacturers and end users,
TI has integrated a unique Static Packet Filter (SPF) in
its IP phone platform to provide protection against some of
the most common forms of Layer 3 and Layer 4 Denial of
Service (DoS) attacks, improving existing security features
for IP communications. As more businesses transport data
over IP networks, deploying robust security solutions to
address points of vulnerability is essential. DoS attacks
can compromise data transmission, disable voice service and
severely impair the functionality of IP networks. TI's SPF
addresses these potential intrusions and gives business
users the comfort and assurance their network is secure. An
integrated 3-port Gigabit Ethernet switch further eases
network deployment by continuing to enable a single
Ethernet drop to an office without limiting bandwidth to
the PC. 

    "TI has been developing technology that powers the
VoIP industry for over a decade and has an excellent
understanding of the long-term benefits for businesses
deploying IP-based equipment, not the least of which are
cost savings," said Fred Zimmerman, executive
director, VoIP customer premises solutions, TI. "Our
newest and most flexible IP phone platform expands on the
cost-benefits of VoIP by providing a truly feature-rich
product that surpasses traditional desktop phones with
exceptional voice quality and unmatched security."

    The TNETV1051 utilizes TI's award-winning PIQUA(TM)
technology by adding new Quality of Service (QoS) insights
that can be used to actively improve the user experience
with VoIP and understand what is occurring on an individual
connection-by-connection basis.  Based on TI's DSP
technology and embedded software, TI's PIQUA system
provides a real-time distributed system of complete quality
management elements designed to monitor and improve the
quality of IP-based services, such as voice, data and
video. The TNETV1051 also incorporates TI's new enhanced
Acoustic Echo Canceller to eliminate unwanted echo and
interference, providing yet another level of advanced voice
quality. The software architecture of the TNETV1051 is a
common design for manufacturers' VoIP platforms, making it
adaptable and easily integrated into a wide range of IP
phones. TI's field-proven Telogy Software(TM) for VoIP
allows customers the added benefit of customizing their
applications to meet to meet a variety of business needs.
The flexibility enables manufacturers to more quickly
develop products to best serve market requirements, while
protecting their initial technology investment. 

    TI's TNETV1051 platform also incorporates the latest
Power-over-Ethernet technology, which allows a phone to be
powered directly from a standard Ethernet cable instead of
an AC line. TI's TPS23750 power management integrated
circuit combines a powered device and
pulse-width-modulation (PWM) controller to safely and
efficiently power the IP phone. 

    Availability

    The TNETV1051 is currently sampling with full
production expected in early 2007. A software development
platform is also available. For more information on the
TNETV1051 and TI's full portfolio of VoIP products, please
visit http://www.ti.com/voip . 

    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 are the property of
their respective owners.

    For more information, please contact:

     Debbie Shemony
     Texas Instruments
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     Erin Arnold
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