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October/November 2004 |
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Featured Article
The Year of VoIP: A Look Back and A Step Ahead
At
the start of our article series, "2004: The Year
of VoIP," we pondered whether 2004 was going to
emerge as the year VoIP began its ascent as the
dominant telecommunications technology of the
twenty-first century. In this final installment,
TI's Fred Zimmerman reflects on the state of the
market and discusses some of the opportunities and
challenges that lie ahead for next year. He
concludes, in Olympic terms, "the VoIP market is
making a run for the gold." more...
Broadband Spotlight
Findings from Asia Broadband
Conference
The
Asia Broadband Connections Conference, an event
co-sponsored by Texas Instruments and China
Telecom, brought together carriers, system
developers and industry experts to promote
broadband adoption and development. These industry
leaders discussed the latest market trends,
technology advances and service offerings,
available today and envisioned for the future. more...
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| Products and News |
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TI Makes IP Phones Portable with New Voice
over Wireless LAN Platform
TI
announced the exciting addition of a complete platform
for the development of a high-performance Wireless LAN
IP phone, to its market-leading suite of Voice over
Broadband products. This fully-integrated solution
incorporates TI's VoIP and WLAN software and silicon,
enabling developers to capitalize on TI's broadband and
wireless expertise to quickly bring WLAN IP phones to
market.
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TI's Newest DSL Infrastructure Platform
Combines Voice and Data in One Design
TI's AC7 IVD 24-port reference design
integrates the AC7 ADSL central office chipset with POTS
voice, aggregation processor and voice over packet
functionality for DSLAM, IPDSLAM and remote terminal
applications. AC7 IVD allows system manufacturers to
quickly design and qualify voice and data line cards,
and addresses the delivery of triple play service by
supporting ADSL1, 2, 2+, POTS and/or VoIP services, as
well as video over IP.
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Consortium of semiconductor, CE companies
unveils complete joint proposal for IEEE 802.11 Task
Group N
The standard proposed by
industry leaders Airgo, Bermai, Broadcom, Conexant,
STMicroelectronics and TI achieves a 540Mbps data rate,
meets stringent worldwide regulatory requirements and
provides important legacy interoperability with existing
Wi-Fi® devices.
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Broadband Market Growth 2004 Quarterly
Tracker
The Broadband market continues its strong
growth in 2004. VoIP has tripled its port shipments from
last year at this time. DSL, Cable, and WLAN also have
shown impressive year-on-year growth. Stay tuned for
next quarter's tracker to see the momentum continue!
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| White Papers |
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G-Plus (802.11g+) Performance-Enhancing
Technology
This white paper explains
how "G-Plus" technology increases effective throughput
by reducing overhead and maximizing MAC-layer capacity,
thereby improving the efficiency of the wireless
network.
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Building Residential
VoIP Gateways: A Tutorial—Part Four, Demand For VoIP
Security
(PDF, 494K)
VoIP gateways
and IP phones are vulnerable to many Internet attacks,
such as malformed frames or packet floods. VoIP CPE
equipment is further open to security risks such as
intrusion, monitoring, alteration of the packet contents
and destination addresses, and identity fraud in a
non-managed environment. As a result, VoIP security has
become a mission-critical element for the deployment of
CPE products. This fourth article in a series on CPE
voice gateways, written by TI's Debbie Greenstreet and
Sophia Scoggins, addresses the implementation of
security in residential voice gateways. Downloadable PDF
from networkZONE.
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Ubiquitous
Communications: Anywhere with an IP Connection
Communications tools are changing
dramatically, for the better. For anyone born in the
twenty-first century, the concept of the telephone will
be completely different than the one previous
generations have known. The network of the future will
seek you out to deliver the services you need, when and
where you need them. Ashley Johnston and Irvind Ghai
examine some of the underlying network changes being put
into place to make ubiquitous voice communications a
reality. From Business Management Asia.
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New TI Broadband Solutions Website
Debuts
We're
pleased to announce a redesigned 'Broadband Solutions'
website. Aside from adding many new pages of content and
revamping the navigation, the site features an
at-a-glance downloadable Document Center. Product
content is now arranged by end equipments, by core
technologies, and by flash navigation, which shows
solutions in context of deployment.
http://www.ti.com/broadband
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