Mindspeed Introduces Comcerto 1000S Processor for Service Offload Platform (SOP) Boxes That Will Accelerate the Deployment of Connected Home Services

Mindspeed Introduces Comcerto 1000S Processor for Service Offload Platform (SOP) Boxes That Will Accelerate the Deployment of Connected Home Services

Company Extends Comcerto Family of System-on-Chip (SoC) Solutions to Enable a New Class of Hardware for Provisioning Broadband Health, Energy and Security Services Using Existing Routers

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that its communications convergence processing (CCP) business unit is extending its Comcerto® 1000 family of SoC processors to enable a new category of customer premises equipment (CPE) hardware that will make it easier and more cost-effective for service providers to deliver value-added connected home applications without requiring the installation of enhanced set-top boxes (STBs) or multi-function broadband home routers (BHRs).

In order to support emerging service-provider-managed, connected home business models, Mindspeed is helping to define a new class of SOP Box™ CPE hardware that will enable subscribers to receive value-added, gateway-enabled cloud applications with no changes to their existing CPE infrastructure. Mindspeed’s single-core M83160 and dual-core M83240 processors are the first in a family of Comcerto 1000S application-specific SoC processors optimized for the cost, speed, bandwidth and compact footprint that are required for powering this new type of CPE hardware.

“Carriers and service providers need a simple, low-cost delivery platform for connected home applications that can be used with any existing router and access technology, whether DSL, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) or cable,” said Raouf Y. Halim, Mindspeed's chief executive officer. “We are working with equipment manufacturers, carriers and other value-added service providers to apply the performance and ultra-low power consumption of our proven Comcerto 1000 fiber-to-the-home gateway processors to this new CPE platform, which will meet the unique requirements for provisioning emerging value-added services.”

Comcerto 1000S processors deliver a variety of features that are important for SOP Boxes, including dual-core redundancy to ensure mission-critical service reliability, and both IPSec and secure sockets layer (SSL) hardware encryption to support secure transfer of user and usage information. SOP Boxes are expected to be roughly the same size as an external hard drive, and will feature an Ethernet connection to the router and a number of USB ports to accommodate various application client devices. The Comcerto 1000S processors will be supported by Mindspeed’s OpenMind™ ecosystem, which includes a complete OSGi and Java application-development framework to speed SOP Box development for a wide range of connected home applications.

“We are pleased to be the first manufacturer working with Mindspeed to develop products that support this exciting new service-delivery model,” said Chinru Lin, senior assistant vice president of the digital home business unit for ZyXEL. “Cost effective SOP devices provide an immediate solution for deploying many value-added connected home services over the ideal delivery platform. This will help both ZyXEL and our customers create differentiations to stay ahead of the competition and win more business. Mindspeed’s Comcerto 1000S devices provide an important piece of the solution because of their single- and dual-core configuration, low-power and embedded security capabilities.”

“With many millions of residential gateways, modems and routers in the field, broadband service providers are developing strategies to leverage this large installed equipment base by adding a remotely-managed services framework that will allow them to offer compelling new services within the connected home,” said Marco Bello, executive director of CPE marketing and product management at Mindspeed. “This new framework can be deployed using low-cost SOP devices, which will enable providers to partner with best-of-breed home automation, utility monitoring, security, healthcare and networked appliance vendors to deliver cloud-based applications that can be provisioned and securely managed via existing CPE hardware and operation and business support systems.”

The M83160 and M83240 Comcerto 1000S processors are available in sample quantities and scheduled to begin volume production this quarter.

About Mindspeed Technologies

Mindspeed Technologies (NASDAQ: MSPD) is a leading provider of network infrastructure semiconductor solutions for the communications industry. The company's low-power system-on-chip (SoC) products are helping to drive video, voice and data applications to in worldwide fiber-optic networks and enable advanced processing for 3G and long-term evolution (LTE) mobile networks. The company's high-performance analog products are used in a variety of optical, enterprise, industrial and video transport systems. Mindspeed's products are sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) around the globe.

To learn more, please visit http://www.mindspeed.com. Company news and updates are also posted at http://www.twitter.com/mindspeed.

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