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TI Accelerates Home and Office Networking with New Family of DSL Solutions
Offering Expands TI's DSL Portfolio to Include DSL Communications Processors
DALLAS (Feb. 26, 2001) -- Enabling consumers to network multiple PCs and other Internet appliances with high-speed data and voice, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today announced the industry's most complete family of digital subscriber line (DSL) communications processing solutions for the router and voice over DSL (VoDSL) gateway market segments. The new integrated silicon and software solutions (ISSS) leverage TI's systems expertise including its programmable digital signal processor (DSP) and analog-based DSL physical layer (PHY) technology, Telogy Software(tm) VoDSL products, and a new family of DSL communications processors with interfaces to all home and office networking protocols. Sharing a common architecture with TI's recently announced VoIP gateway and voice over cable modem solutions, these processors provide manufacturers the flexibility to develop cable, VoIP and DSL solutions utilizing one adaptable processor architecture.
To learn more about TI's DSL solutions, please visit http://www.ti.com/sc/dslgateway.
"As the home and office networking market gains momentum, it will be essential for DSL router and VoDSL gateway manufacturers to support a variety of networking technologies," said Patrick Hurley, TeleChoice DSL Analyst. "Platforms like TI's, that integrate DSL communications processors and software technology with interfaces to multiple home and office networking protocols; will help drive DSL in business and residential marketplaces. With this offering, TI is facilitating services over the broadband connection without the need for end users to purchase or support multiple networking devices."
Addressing the Home and Office Router and VoDSL Gateway Markets
Offering integrated support for all wireless and wired networking standards, the flexible and scalable AR5D00, AR5V10 and AR5V20 chipset solutions allow manufacturers to meet the need for efficient DSL service distribution throughout the home and office. With routers and VoDSL gateways built on TI's family of DSL communications processing solutions, consumers will be able to network multiple PCs and Internet appliances, manage multiple Internet accounts, and have increased access to entertainment and businesses services such as streaming video and audio, real-time video conferencing and virtual private network (VPN) security.
With high-throughput routing and a feature-rich home networking peripherals mix, the AR5D00 provides a low-cost and high performance chipset solution for manufacturers of home routers, small office/home office (SOHO) routers and small to medium enterprise (SME) routers. With TI's AR5V10 chipset at the core of their products, manufacturers can meet the demand for integrated access devices (IADs), residential gateways (RGs) and SOHO gateways to deliver customers up to four packetized voice lines at lower costs in addition to high-throughput data. Similarly, the AR5V20 enables IADs and SME gateways to support up to eight packetized voice channels and high-speed data services to decrease equipment size, power and operational expenses.
"The flexibility and scalability of TI's new DSL communications processing solutions gives manufacturers the ability to address multiple market segments - using the same architecture for a greater return on their development investment," said Bill Eversole, general manager for TI's DSL Business Unit. "TI is committed to driving broadband connectivity technologies such as DSL and cable, and networking the end-equipment throughout homes and offices without the need for wires. These new DSL solutions are a critical element of this strategy."
Combining Physical Layer Expertise and Advanced Voice and Packet Processing
Leveraging a common platform, the AR5D00, AR5V10 and AR5V20 have high throughput routing and bridging functionality, and interfaces to support all home and office networking standards such as IEEE 802.11/Wi-Fi™, Bluetooth™, Ethernet, IEEE 1394, universal serial bus (USB), Powerline and Home Phone Networking Alliance (HPNA).
The new chipsets include the following components:
- A DSL communications processor- TNETD5300 for the AR5D00, the TNETD5310 for the AR5V10, or the TNETD5320 for the AR5V20
- An AX5 ADSL PHY, which consists of the TNETD5100, a TMS320C6000™ programmable DSP-based ADSL transceiver, and the TNETD5014, a single-chip analog front end (AFE) that includes the codec, filters, line driver and line receiver
- All three chipsets also leverage either Linux® turn-key communications processor software including a complete TCP/IP network stack with advanced network management features or VxWorks™ board support package (BSP), both developed by TI
- Additionally, the AR5V10 and AR5V20 include integrated Telogy Software VoDSL products
As highly integrated, flexible and scalable solutions, the DSL communications processors feature a USB function controller, two 10/100 Ethernet MACs with media independent interfaces (MIIs) and hardware acceleration for VPN security. The processors also offer an on-chip peripheral component interconnect (PCI) interface allowing manufacturers to customize the home networking configuration for their end-products.
Comprised of the voice processing capabilities of TI's programmable TMS320C54x™ DSP and a 125 Megahertz MIPS® microprocessor, the TNETD5310 and TNETD5320 DSL communications processors enable toll-quality digital voice, lifeline telephony, packet routing and advanced network-powered services. Additionally, these two processors also offer a glueless interface to analog voice codecs allowing customers to optimize their bill of materials for any given IAD configuration, all of which work with Telogy Software VoDSL products.
Scalable Broadband Platform Supports Multiple Applications
Thanks to the scalability of TI's broadband platform, TI's ADSL chipsets today deliver secure voice, video, audio and data, and using the evolving Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) defined algorithms called IPSEC, the flexibility to support more advanced security through encryption, VPN and firewall functions in the future. Leveraging TI's broad footprint of local exchange carrier (LEC) and Internet service provider (ISP) certified ADSL PHY expertise, the new solutions support International Telecommunications Union (ITU) G.dmt, ITU G.lite and American Networking Standards Institute (ANSI) T1.413.2 standards. Additionally, the AR5V10 and AR5V20 chipsets support ITU G.711, G.723.1a, G.726 or G.729ab voice codecs and key VoDSL transport standards including VoATM (BLES), VoIP (MBN) and channelized VoDSL (CVoDSL).
Availability
All three chipset solutions are sampling today, with volume production planned for the second quarter of 2001. Providing full customer support through implementation and testing, TI's solutions offer complete reference designs, complete software solutions and easy-to-use provisioning tools.
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Trademarks:
Telogy Software, TMS320C6000 and TMS320C54x are trademarks of Texas Instruments
Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance
Bluetooth is a trademark of Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson, Sweden
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
VxWorks is a trademark of WindRiver Systems, Inc.
MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies, Inc.
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