Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Agere Systems | Subject: NASn01
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 May 2005
Media servers accelerate network
attached storage
Agere Systems has developed what it reckons is the world's fastest portfolio of multimedia and storage networking chips for homes and businesses.
Agere Systems has developed what it reckons is the world's fastest portfolio of multimedia and storage networking chips for homes and businesses These trailblazing media server chips accelerate the speed at which multimedia files are transferred within homes and businesses approximately 20x faster than all competing chips
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Streaming multimedia content at 1Gbit/s datarates, the chips manage how digital content, such as data, music, pictures and video, get accessed and stored on a home or business network.
Designed for use in digital media server and network attached storage solutions, these chips can dramatically transform the new age of the digital home as well as the evolving needs of small- and medium-sized businesses.
Using equipment powered by these chips, for example, people inside a home can watch high definition TV (HDTV) on up to eight different TV sets simultaneously without any decline in performance - a benefit impossible with current single-chip offerings.
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