Texas Instruments and General Bandwidth Demonstrate Interoperability of Voice over DSL (VoDSL) Platforms Based on BLES Standard
DALLAS (January 8, 2001) -- Building on their leadership in broadband, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and General Bandwidth, Inc. today announced that they are demonstrating interoperable VoDSL solutions supporting the recently approved Broadband Loop Emulation Service (BLES) standard for VoDSL applications. The companies are exhibiting at DSL Forum booth #4459, Pod #6 VoDSL (2nd level) at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas.
The BLES standard, AF-VMOA-000.145, is the first open standard to promote interoperability for VoDSL. BLES provides a standards-based mechanism that enables VoDSL equipment to support multiple voice channels over a single loop, thereby eliminating the need for additional loops. With VoDSL, a wide range of voice services will be offered for both consumers and businesses, including bundled voice and data services, multiple virtual lines and highly managed lines.
"Industry-wide support of this standard will accelerate VoDSL deployment because OEMs can now build voice-enabled equipment that is globally interoperable," said Dennis Gatens, product management director, Telogy Networks, A Texas Instruments Company. "Continuing our commitment to offer standards-based solutions, TI will accelerate OEMs' time to market based on a proven, interoperable embedded solution."
"General Bandwidth is happy to participate in another event that will accelerate standards-based voice over broadband," said Brendon Mills, president and CEO, of General Bandwidth. "Support of open standards for VoDSL will lead to mass deployment of the service and General Bandwidth's scalable, standards compliant VoBroadband Gateway can meet the needs of carriers expanding their service offerings with VoDSL."
The demonstration features TI's 6E/4000R VoDSL CPE evaluation platform and General Bandwidth's G6 VoBroadband™ gateway, a truly carrier class gateway designed specifically to meet the needs of large service providers deploying voice over broadband. TI's 6E/4000R VoDSL evaluation platform demonstrates Telogy Software™ products featuring BLES support and TI's TMS320C54x™ generation of programmable DSPs. In addition to BLES, the solution supports pulse code modulation (PCM)/adaptive differential pulse code modulation (ADPCM) and low bit rate (LBR) voice CODEC technology. LBR CODECs provide an 8:1 reduction in the bandwidth required for each voice channel. The solution offers standard and advanced voice features including echo cancellation, voice activity detection, comfort noise generation, and tone detection and generation. TI's VoDSL solutions support both central office and customer premise equipment applications.
For more information on TI's VoDSL solutions visit http://www.telogy.com/vodsl or http://www.ti.com/sc/adsl.
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