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May 20, 2010

Transwitch's Atlanta to be Used in Chinese Telecom OEM's WiMAX VoIP Terminal Equipment

By Hans Lewis
TMCnet Contributor

TranSwitch announced that it has received pre-production orders from a leading Chinese Telecom OEM for its Atlanta 80 processor for use in its WiMAX (News - Alert) VoIP terminal equipment.

TranSwitch is a provider of semiconductor solutions for the converging voice, data and video network.

“We are delighted to have been selected by our major customer as the vendor of choice for their WiMAX VoIP terminal deployments,” said Dr. M. Ali Khatibzadeh, president and CEO of TranSwitch. “The fast growing VoIP market presents strategic growth opportunities for TranSwitch. Our Atlanta and Entropia product families offer best-in-class performance in terms of voice quality, power consumption and packet processing in the industry.”

The first widespread deployments of the Atlanta-based WiMax Fixed Wireless Terminals will be in Asia and Europe where rollouts are expected to begin during the third quarter of 2010. Deployments follow several months of rigorous field testing of equipment under varying network conditions to ensure interoperability, quality and performance.

Kris Shankar, VP of Sales and Marketing at TranSwitch said, “Atlanta’s dedicated and optimized VoIP DSPbased technology enables WiMAX terminals to provide consistently high voice quality even under high internet data traffic conditions. The selection of Atlanta in these deployments is a testament to TranSwitch’s leadership in VoIP technology. With an integrated Digital Signal Processor (News - Alert) (DSP) optimized for VoIP, the Atlanta 80 product can simultaneously support 100 Mbps wire-speed routing with Network Address Translation (NAT), Security, WiFi (News - Alert), T38 Fax and up to eight voice channels while maintaining excellent voice quality. We are uniquely architected to deliver all these features with little to no impact on overall performance.”

The adoption of WiMAX, a fourth generation wireless technology, is rapidly gaining momentum worldwide. According to a recent ABI Research (News - Alert) report, 164 mobile WiMAX networks were in trial or commercial operation at the end of 2009, and the number of WiMAX subscribers is expected to grow from approximately 6 million in 2009 to over 30 million by 2011.

TranSwitch’s Atlanta 80 is well positioned for network deployments worldwide. Last year, Korea’s fastest growing broadband operator, SK Broadband, deployed over a million DECT (News - Alert) VoIP terminals based on the Atlanta™ processor. Other service providers are also conducting trials of Atlanta™ 80 based equipment for their networks.


Hans Lewis is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Marisa Torrieri


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