Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Octasic | Subject: OCT6100L
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 December 2005

Echo cancellation is more economical

New lower-power and lower-cost echo cancellation devices enable higher density and the highest voice quality for customers designing down to four channels

Octasic Semiconductor is enhancing its OCT6100 family with the introduction of lower-power and lower-cost devices, enabling higher density and the highest voice quality for customers designing down to four channels. The OCT6100L builds on the proven success of the current OCT6100 devices, offering unprecedented voice quality enhancement features through the use of 130nm technology.

As echo cancellation moves from a stand-alone box to an internal embedded feature of gateway and switching equipment, designers are faced with increasing demands for lower power to meet their density targets, while improving quality.

Octasic has responded to this demand with the OCT6100L.

The OCT6100L proves Octasic's commitment to compress product development time for their customers and provide cost efficient, power efficient, performance driven silicon, while ensuring the longevity of the product for the enterprise and carrier equipment market space.

'With over 15 million ports deployed, the OCT6100 has been a great success'.

'We are pleased with the acceptance of this architecture'.

'Now, with the OCT6100L, Octasic can respond to the most stringent customer requirements for density and cost', explains Doug Morrissey, Octasic CTO.

'The result of our partnership with STMicroelectronics, this device represents the first of many that leverage their impressive capabilities to deliver market leading performance'.

The OCT6100L demonstrates the successful migration of the OCT6100 device to 130nm technology using the STMicroelectronics process, while continuing to deliver all the features of the popular OCT6100 device.

As one of the leading suppliers of semiconductor devices in the world, STMicroelectronics allows Octasic to deliver the supplier stability and quality required by telecomms equipment manufacturers.

'We believe that the implementation of Octasic's unique design in ST's world-class process technology will result in a market leading product', says Daniel Abecassis, Group Vice President and General Manager of ST's Wireless Infrastructure Division.

'The next step is to produce Octasic's next-generation device that will take full advantage of ST's 90nm process'.

With the rapid increase of IP based PBXs VoIP is being deployed in many demanding business environments.

Meeting the voice quality expectations of customers is a major concern and challenge.

By providing its carrier class solution at a cost point for small equipment Octasic provides customers with a competitive edge in voice quality.

Such proven features as Octasic Music Protection, acoustic echo control (AEC), adaptive noise reduction (ANR), and extensive conferencing capabilities allow for these IPBX equipment providers to easily implement high end capabilities in a uniform manner from the smallest to largest products.

By lowering the core voltage from 1.8 to 1.2V, the OCT6100L cuts the already impressive power performance of the original device in half, to less than 1.5mW per fully featured channel.

Combined with its ease of integration this device is perfectly suited to adding or enhancing echo cancellation of existing platforms providing a more cost effective solution for carriers.

By retaining all the features and functionality of the existing OCT6100 devices the OCT6100L leverages the extensive field experience of the existing devices which have been qualified into several leading carrier networks.

The low power and space requirement of the solution provides the opportunity to retrofit existing equipments that require external echo cancellation with minimal redesign.

Where previously this type of redesign would require a reduction in capacity to accommodate the boards required, a daughter board for an existing linecard now becomes an option, preserving the original configurations and density of the equipment.

Samples of the OCT6100L are currently available; production quantities are planned for early 2006, with pricing under $0.50 per channel in volume quantities.

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