Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Octasic | Subject: OCT6100 Series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 9 May 2003
Echo cancellation chips
enhance voice quality
New from Octasic is the OCT6100 Series of echo cancellation and voice quality enhancement (VQE) products
Offering extremely high densities, together with minimal power consumption and low cost, the ground-breaking OCT6100 Series sets the standard for superior quality and performance in echo cancellation and voice quality solutions. Using innovative echo cancellation technology that provides unrivalled noise matching capabilities, the OCT6100 Series is a product family with densities ranging from 128 to 672 channels, and power consumption of less than 3mW per channel.
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The OCT6100 Series is designed to support a broad range of applications, and offers extensive features such as noise reduction, acoustic echo control, signalling tone detection, audio conferencing, and more, without sacrificing channel count.
"With this announcement I am very pleased to deliver on our promise of bringing to market an echo cancellation device that outperforms existing solutions in terms of density, power, price and quality", said Michel Laurence, CEO of Octasic.
"It is indeed a significant milestone for Octasic and demonstrates our continued commitment to providing our customers with high quality next generation voice products at very competitive prices".
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Echo cancellation chips target lower densities
The OCT6100 Series carrier-grade echo cancellation solution is now available in 32 and 64 channels with pricing as low as US $1.20 per channel
"Our customers have identified voice quality as one of the key factors to consider when developing equipment for next generation networks", said Frederic Bourget, Senior Product Manager, OCT6100 Series.
"In order to address these needs, we've based the OCT6100 Series on a unique algorithm that delivers unmatched voice quality and will give our customers a clear competitive edge".
The OCT6100 products address the needs of a variety of network equipment providers within the wireless, VoP, and TDM segments of the telecommunications industry.
Each chip in the OCT6100 Series is a complete, easily integrated solution with extremely low power and space requirements, thereby simplifying design and reducing time-to-market.
Densities are available in 128, 256, 512, or 672 channels, with 64 or 128ms tail echo cancellation available for all capacities.
The base devices offer standard echo cancellation and VQE features, including high quality noise matching, manual gain control, adaptive level control, acoustic echo control, and G.168 tone detection.
Other devices in the series are available with features such as: adaptive noise reduction, advanced tone detection, tone generation, full capacity conferencing, announcement playback, and ADPCM compression.
The OCT6102-672 device is priced at US $0.50 per channel in quantities of 5000.
The OCT6100 Series devices are available now, and are offered in a 16 x 16mm BGA package.
An evaluation platform, the OCT6100-TP, is available for performance and quality evaluation.
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