TranSwitch intros broadband home gateway processor with low power consumption

SHELTON, USA: TranSwitch Corp., a leading provider of semiconductor solutions for the converging voice, data and video network, has announced the availability of Atlanta 1000, the latest member of its award winning Atlanta communications processor family.

“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.

Atlanta 1000 is a highly integrated System-on-Chip (SoC) solution enabling CPE manufacturers to achieve ground-breaking performance for PON (Passive Optical Network), 4G (WiMax, LTE) and other broadband applications. The device is extremely power efficient, ideally suited for development of CPE appliances that are “Power over Ethernet” capable and “Green” compliant.

Atlanta 1000 delivers wire-speed data throughput over IEEE 802.11n WiFi. It provides up to two channels of carrier-grade Voice-over-IP, configurable to a wide selection of industry standard narrowband and wideband low bit rate voice codecs from a field proven DSP with over a million ports of commercial deployment.

Despite its small (17x17mm) footprint, Atlanta 1000 packs a tremendous amount of computing power “under the hood” at very low power (less than 1 watt) consumption. The triple processor SoC incorporates two independent RISC cores, a powerful TranSwitch proprietary Sigma DSP core, and dedicated hardware accelerators for packet classification and traffic management.

This unique architecture enables Atlanta 1000 to guarantee excellent voice quality, data throughput and responsiveness of embedded Java Virtual Machine based applications even under full load conditions.

A complete system development kit and turnkey software platform enables OEM customers to achieve extremely fast time to market with the flexibility to customize and differentiate their products to achieve maximum market share. 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.