Date: 07/07/2010

New low power communications processor form TranSwitch for broadband applications

TranSwitch has made available the Atlanta 1000, the latest member of Atlanta communications processor family.

The key features of Atlanta 1000 are:
1. Suggested for PON (Passive Optical Network), 4G (WiMax, LTE) and other broadband applications.
2. The device is power efficient and suitable for development of CPE appliances that are "Power over Ethernet" capable and "Green" compliant.
3. Delivers wire-speed data throughput over IEEE 802.11n WiFi.
4. Provides up to two channels of carrier-grade Voice-over-IP (VoIP), configurable to narrowband and wideband low bit rate voice codecs from a DSP with over a million ports of commercial deployment.
5. It has a small footprint of (17x17mm) and packs a large amount of computing power at very low power (less than 1 watt) consumption.
6. The triple processor SoC incorporates two independent RISC cores, a TranSwitch Sigma DSP core and dedicated hardware accelerators for packet classification and traffic management.
7. TranSwitch says that the Atlanta 1000 architecture guarantee good voice quality, data throughput and responsiveness of embedded Java Virtual Machine based applications even under full load conditions.
8. Consists of a complete system development kit and turnkey software platform.
9. Atlanta 1000 has an open, Linux based software architecture, and a turnkey residential gateway reference design that includes VoIP gateway and secure data router functionality.

"Service providers around the world are rapidly moving to an 'all IP' broadband infrastructure to meet the surging demand for triple play services from residential and small businesses customers." said William McDonald, Director of Product Marketing at TranSwitch. "In addition, there is widespread adoption of IEEE 802.11n based WiFi as a preferred distribution technology for services including High Definition voice, streaming video and high speed data within homes and small businesses. Our new Atlanta 1000 is optimized to address the requirements of this fast growing market", he concluded.