[January 21, 2005]

Legerity VoIP-Connects Analog Phones

BY JOHANNE TORRES

Legerity Inc., a company based in Austin, Texas, and a provider of analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for voice and data networks, announced this week the availability of the newest members of its VE880 VoicePort Series—the Le88111, Le88116, Le88131 and Le88136, used for providing VoIP connectivity to analog phones.

The company says these VoicePort products are one of the first solutions available in the market combining SLIC and codec functionalities into a single device. According to Legerty, the new single channel devices significantly increase design flexibility, improve system performance and reduce system BOM cost.

"Legerity has developed a truly unique, highly integrated voice solution for the VoIP market. Designers can now implement the most cost effective single channel voice solution in a matter of days, instead of months or years," said Mike Stibilia, vice president of marketing and applications for Legerity. "Designers benefit from the easy to use features of VoicePort without sacrificing performance."

The new VoicePort devices, with pin-compatible options for 100V or 150V, as well as narrow band or wide band, would make it easy for designers to develop one application with population options for any market worldwide.

The Le88111, Le88116, Le88131, Le88136 are currently available for production orders. Legerty is trying to target designers of consumer premise equipment (CPE) such as voice enabled cable modems, DSL modems, gateways, and media terminal adapters (MTA). In addition, these devices could also be ideal for FTTx, WLL, PBX, and other SME applications. These FXS devices have a complimentary FXO device, Le88010, which is also available. The Le88111 is targeted at $2.50 per device in high volume.

Legerity Inc.
www.legerity.com