Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Agere Systems | Subject: TrueOne
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 9 January 2007
Integrated SoC is
home solution for Samsung
Samsung has chosen Agere Systems' TrueOne home solutions to develop its home media server and gateway for mobile and broadband network service providers
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Agere's home solutions, consisting of the industry's most integrated SoC for this market, coupled with complete multimedia software and system solutions, are planned to be used in Samsung's home media server and gateway platforms. The home media server provides high-speed streaming throughout a home for up to eight simultaneous high definition TV (HDTV) channels.
The server also delivers up to 4Tbyte of multimedia storage capacity.
No other technology has achieved this performance level in the form factor, performance, and cost requirements for the home.
The next-generation home gateway can enable deep packet inspection as fast as 2Gbit/s - the highest performance, reliability and scalability for the rapidly growing and demanding digital home market.
Agere next-generation home gateway technology enables new services for the home such as mobile telemedia and security services.
This offers new cost-effective digital home services that are unmatched in the market from a cost performance perspective.
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Examples of emerging consumer services that will use the Samsung platforms that use the Agere technology are central mobile phone telemultimedia access; digital photos and videos with immediate access and fast back-up and recovery service; delivery of video-on-demand and gaming-on-demand; and sharing of photos and videos on the web.
'Samsung's home media server and gateway with Agere's home solution take quality of service and carrier-managed services to the highest levels of performance and reliability', said Kwansoo Lee, Executive Vice President of Samsung.
'There has to be a guarantee that services are developed when service providers want them to be and at the level of quality consumers demand'.
'Samsung's home media server and gateway get that critically important task done better than other technologies in the market'.
To develop these real-time reliable, carrier-class services into the digital home, Agere's technology leverages the company's traffic management and quality of service expertise.
Agere's experience in the telecomms and service provider industry positions Agere uniquely to enable such platforms for value-added services by broadband carriers and service providers.
'This business deal announced today shows just how strong the business relationship between Agere and Samsung has grown, and how excited Agere feels to have landed this business with one of the true leaders of the consumer electronics and networking world', said Samir Samhouri, Executive Vice President of Agere's Networking Division.
'We knew when Agere Systems announced TrueOne last year that it could deliver more carrier-class services to more people in more places than any technology ever has', Samhouri added.
'This new deal with Samsung proves that our TrueOne vision, strategy, and business focus offers our customers - service providers included - success in the growing digital home market'.
'Our corporate mission is to perfect the connected lifestyle, and our relationship with Samsung will do exactly that'.
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