[September 13, 2000]

CIDCO Selects Texas Instruments As Enterprise IP Phone DSP And VoIP Software Provider

CIDCO Incorporated announced it will team with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) to build a version of its enterprise IP phones, based on the TI DSP technology. By utilizing TMS320C5472 enterprise IP phone processor with Telogy Software products for toll quality Voice over IP, CIDCO will reinforce its position as a worldwide leader in telephony products, services and appliances that empower consumers to communicate simply and easily over advanced telephony networks and the Internet.

"CIDCO chose TI to help us extend our capabilities in the growing enterprise IP telephone market," noted Mark Jensen, director of product management for CIDCO. "We believe that TI's track record of supporting the software tools needed to get ahead in this market, coupled with their dual MAC architecture, toll quality Telogy VoIP software, and a software architecture capable of supporting a wide variety of VOIP protocol stacks will enable us to move rapidly in the VOIP marketspace. CIDCO's IP telephones will allow businesses to replace traditional circuit-switched PBXs with more efficient, feature rich IP telephone systems. On a cost-per-extension basis, such systems can be less expensive than circuit-switched solutions, and these systems make a variety of new features possible, including find me/follow me, unified messaging and seamless telecommuting, while delivering standard PBX features."

Today's announcement is CIDCO's third significant step in three months toward building a major presence in the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) market. CIDCO previously announced plans with AG Communication Systems, a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies, to deliver next-generation IP Centrex solutions. Based on this new relationship, CIDCO will develop and manufacture IP telephones that interoperate with the 7R/E iMerge Centrex Feature Gateway (CFG). In June, CIDCO announced it would develop a line of IP telephones based on Netergy Networks' IP chipset to address customers of Netergy's hosted i-PBX solution.

CIDCO plans to release a line of telephones beginning with the IP210 in the first quarter of 2001 and the IP200 following shortly thereafter. The solution will be compatible with VoIP industry standard protocols SIP, H.323 and MGCP, and will feature the VoIP industry's de facto standard for Voice over IP software, Telogy Software products. The IP200 will be a basic business telephone and will support a full duplex speakerphone, three-line display, two-line appearances and system feature keys. The IP210 will be a full-featured business set with three-line appearances and a large format screen that will support a variety of IP-delivered applications. The development of IP phones expands CIDCO's telephony business and allows the company to enter the growing VoIP enterprise market in addition to its traditional residential consumer market.

With more than 80% of the enterprise IP phone market, Texas Instruments' enterprise IP phone solutions deliver toll quality voice to the desktop while simultaneously reducing telecommunications management costs through the integration of voice and data on a single network. TI's solution is the leader in voice quality, matching or exceeding the audio quality of traditional circuit-switched telephony. By employing this integrated solution, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can shorten time to market while reducing engineering risk. TI's enterprise IP phone solutions are supported by a complete range of high quality software tools and a choice of pre-integrated real time operating system (RTOS) software packages (Wind River Systems' VxWorks and ATI's Nucleus).

"We are pleased to be supporting CIDCO, a worldwide leader in telephony, as they build their VoIP product line," said Nancy Goguen, vice president, marketing, Telogy Networks, A Texas Instruments Company. "Our C5472 DSP-based enterprise IP phone processor and Telogy Software products will complement perfectly CIDCO's network appliances."

TI's TMS320C5472 IP phone processor integrates a TMS320C54x DSP with an ARM 7 RISC CPU, VoIP-enabling Telogy Software products, two 10/100 IEEE 802.3 Ethernet media access controllers (MACs), and analog wide-band codecs. This interoperable solution utilizes the most advanced standards, including Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP). In addition, the processor supports acoustic echo cancellation which achieves toll quality voice processing, and is fully compliant with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) G.167, G.711, G.723.1A, G.726, and G.729AB specifications. TI's Enterprise IP Phone solution operates both with emerging Internet Protocol - Private Branch Exchange (IP-PBX) telephony systems and with existing, LAN-enabled proprietary PBX systems.

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