Broadband Home Gateway Processor Consumes Lowest Power

TranSwitch (News - Alert) Corporation (www.transwitch.com), a Shelton, Conn.-based semiconductor solutions provider for the converging voice, data and video networks, has readied a new broadband home gateway processor that brags lowest power consumption. Labeled Atlanta 1000, it is the latest member of the maker's 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 (News - Alert) 802.11n based Wi-Fi as a preferred distribution technology for services including high definition (HD) 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 added.

As per the developer, Atlanta 1000 is a highly integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) that  enables customer premise equipment (CPE) manufacturers to achieve ground-breaking performance for passive optical network (PON), 4G (WiMax, LTE (News - Alert)) 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.

Incorporating two independent RISC cores, a powerful TranSwitch proprietary Sigma digital signal processor (DSP) core, and dedicated hardware accelerators for packet classification and traffic management, Atlanta 1000 delivers wire-speed data throughput over IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi. And 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, according to the maker.

Despite its small (17 x 17mm) footprint, Atlanta 1000 packs a tremendous amount of computing power under the hood at very low power (less than 1 Watt) consumption. Consequently, the new broadband processor guarantees excellent voice quality, data throughput and responsiveness even under full load conditions, said Transwitch.

According to TranSwitch, a complete system development kit and turnkey software platform is available that enables OEM customers to achieve extremely fast time to market with the flexibility to customize and differentiate their end products. 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.