Centillium's Entropia Chip Revolutionizes Voice Services Over ATM Networks

Strategic Insights -

Centillium Communications, a pioneering company in broadband communications technology, has announced that Tachion Networks has selected its Entropia chip for the Fusion 5000 broadband services switch family. This significant design win marks the first use of the Entropia chip for voice-over-ATM (VoATM) with support for ATM Adaptation Layer Type 1 (AAL1). The Entropia chip compresses and processes high-capacity voice services over packet-based networks, enabling service providers to merge voice and data traffic onto one network. This innovative technology offers the industry's lowest power consumption and highest level of integration, making it an ideal solution for next-generation networking infrastructure equipment.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Entropia chip is a complete system-on-a-chip solution that includes a communications Digital Signal Processor (DSP), software for voice processing, including compression, echo cancellation, and ATM adaptation layer processing, and host Application Programming Interface (API) software.
  • The chip supports 336 compressed voice channels over ATM networks, making it a highly scalable and flexible solution for voice services.
  • The Entropia chip has been chosen by Tachion Networks for its Fusion 5000 broadband services switch family, which is the first system to truly enable packet switching, circuit switching, signaling, routing, and transport in an economical, highly dense platform.
  • The Entropia chip delivers enormous economic benefits to customers, with a significant reduction in power consumption and increased voice processing capacity.
  • The Fusion 5000 switch is designed to deliver flexible, highly scalable voice services over data networks, making it an ideal solution for next-generation networking infrastructure equipment.
  • The Entropia chip has been designed with high levels of programmability for future upgrades, allowing for the support of new voice coders and network protocols as they are developed and released.
  • Tachion Networks has chosen Centillium's voice-over-packet technology to complement its fundamental strategy of integrating multiple traditional technologies into its Collapsed Central Office architecture.
  • Centillium's ACE (Asynchronous Computing Engine) architecture in the Entropia Voice-Over-Packet product line is the basis for this revolutionary design, which replaces the current practice of using general-purpose DSPs (capable of processing only 12 channels of voice) with a high-capacity system-on-a-chip solution.

Statistics:

  • The Entropia chip supports 336 compressed voice channels over ATM networks.
  • The chip has a significant reduction in power consumption, making it an ideal solution for next-generation networking infrastructure equipment.
  • The Fusion 5000 switch is the first system to truly enable packet switching, circuit switching, signaling, routing, and transport in an economical, highly dense platform.
  • The Entropia chip has been designed with high levels of programmability for future upgrades, allowing for the support of new voice coders and network protocols as they are developed and released.
  • Tachion Networks has chosen Centillium's voice-over-packet technology to complement its fundamental strategy of integrating multiple traditional technologies into its Collapsed Central Office architecture.

Sources:

  • Business Wire, "Centillium's Entropia Chip Delivers 336 Compressed Voice Channels Over ATM Networks With Industry's Lowest Power Consumption and Highest Level of Integration"
  • Centillium Communications, "Centillium's Entropia Chip Revolutionizes Voice Services Over ATM Networks"
  • Tachion Networks, "Tachion Networks Selects Centillium's Entropia Chip for Next-Generation Networking Infrastructure Equipment"